Benjamin J. Kormos

 

Benjamin is a member of the Firm’s litigation group. He has experience in corporate-commercial litigation, insurance litigation, estates litigation, and secured transactions and creditor litigation. Benjamin has represented clients in trials before the Provincial Court of Alberta and in summary trials before the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench.

He completed his Bachelor of Arts (Dean’s List) at the University of Calgary in 2006, and his Bachelor of Laws at the University of Saskatchewan in 2008. In his third year of law school, Benjamin participated in the Western Canada Moot trial competition.

Active in the Calgary community, Benjamin has volunteered with the Distress Center as a distress line volunteer, and continues to assist William Aberhart High School’s debate team as a judge for the Canadian National Debates and as a co-coach for Aberhart’s CBA Law Day Mock Trial. He is a member of the Canadian Bar Association (CBA) and the Calgary Bar Association. He is a member of the Executive of the CBA Insurance Sub-Section, the 2011 CBA Law Day Committee, and 2012 CBA Alberta Law Conference Committee. Growing up on in rural Saskatchewan, Benjamin took an active role in helping operate the family farm, from which he gained an understanding of business needs and practical circumstances affecting prairie businesses. Outside of the practice of law, Benjamin’s interests include restoring classic muscle cars, weight training, cuisine, chess, camping and hiking in the Rockies.

Benjamin’s publications include peer reviewed articles on business finance, intellectual property, criminal law, and civil procedure, published in the International Business Law Journal, Intellectual Property Journal, the Criminal Law Quarterly, the Alberta Law Review, and he has been cited in Chris Madsen’s Military: Law and Operations, looseleaf (Aurora: Canada Law Book, Rel. 2009).

Areas of practice:
Civil Litigation