Celesse Dove

Director of Operations and Senior Law Clerk

Telephone: 416-855-0409
Email: cdove@cfscounsel.com
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Assistant: Janine Brown
416-855-0401 ext.0500 | jbrown@cfscounsel.com | Download Janine's Vcard

As Director of Operations, Celesse Dove is responsible for all aspects of administrative management, including finance, human resources, regulatory compliance, facilities, and information technology. In addition to her role managing the firm’s daily operations, Celesse is a Senior Law Clerk with extensive experience assisting lawyers and clients on complex corporate commercial litigation matters. Before joining Chernos Flaherty Svonkin LLP in 2014, Celesse was a law clerk at Torys LLP for more than 20 years, where she assisted counsel on a wide variety of document-intensive litigation matters, with emphasis on class actions, investor loss actions, and Canadian securities regulatory proceedings. Celesse completed the Canadian Securities Course in 2012.

Publications

The Reality of Settlement in Regulatory Enforcement Cases
Advocates' Quarterly, vol. 38, issue 1, 2011
co-author with Joel Wiesenfeld

Memberships

Institute of Law Clerks of Ontario, Associate Member

Education

Canadian Securities Course (CSC), 2012
Canadian Securities Institute

Conduct and Practices Handbook Course (CPH), 2006
Canadian Securities Institute

Law Clerk (Co-op) Diploma, 1992
Fanshawe College

Business - Accounting Program, 1989
Fanshawe College