Meet your professional team at Nathan Smith Law						Linda Wong Paul McGivern
	Firm History Nathan Smith Law carries on the traditions of its founder Nathan H. Smith and his predecessor Raymond MacLeod. Those are the traditions of only representing patients and their families, not defending doctors or hospitals, and of offering professional advice with compassion.
	Linda Ann Wong Linda Wong is the founding lawyer at Nathan Smith Law. She is a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s law school. She was called to the bar in 1983 and has concentrated on civil litigation. She has represented clients at every level of Court in British Columbia. Linda only practices in the area of plaintiff’s medical malpractice. She was co-counsel in a hard fought victory for Travis Strachan, a child who was severely brain damaged during his birth, and his family. She also was co-counsel at the trial and appeal of another hotly contested and successful lawsuit for Benjamin Fullerton, another child who suffers from catastrophic brain damage that occurred during his birth, and his family. Linda has also been actively involved in community health and education issues. She organized Vancouver’s first school-based group for families of special needs children. While head of that organization she opened up the lines of communication among parents, teachers, administrators, and the school-based team. She was the spokesperson for a Vancouver group that fought to preserve services and funding for schoolchildren; she carried their message to radio, television, and newspapers as well as to the Education Minister and other officials in Victoria. She also co-chaired a high level advocacy group that produced educational resource material that was distributed to every school district in BC. Linda brings to her clients’ cases firsthand knowledge about many of the challenges facing families who have a child with a disability. Linda is an active volunteer within the legal community. She is the chair of the Trial Lawyers of British Columbia’s medical negligence litigation group. She guest lectures for the Professional Legal Training Course operated by the Law Society of British Columbia and for the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia. She has written for the Verdict, a magazine published by the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia.					Linda Ann Wong
	Paul McGivern Paul McGivern is a medical malpractice lawyer with more than 20 years experience. His particular area of interest is infants catastrophically injured at birth. Paul is well known in the medical legal community. He has an impressive reputation for understanding the technically intricate medical and legal issues of complex malpractice actions such as the birth cases. After carefully listening to the infant's family, reviewing the medical information, and assessing the medical and legal issues, Paul will assess and explain the case with a view to maximizing the recovery and minimizing the risk to the child and his family. Paul has been lead counsel in hundreds of medical malpractice claims, many of which have involved claims of over $3 million. He has litigated a number of high profile and legal precedent setting legal cases, and has appeared as lead counsel before every court level in B.C. and in the Supreme Court of Canada. In addition to being an advocate for the clients at Nathan Smith Law, Paul is an adjunct legal professor at the University of British Columbia where he has taught civil procedure for 18 years. He is also a sought after speaker at continuing medical legal education programs. He has organized and chaired a number of continuing medical and legal programs focusing on medical legal issues. Paul is a Director of the Medical Legal Society of B.C. and a member of the Trial Lawyers Association of BC and the Plaintiff’s Medical Negligence Litigation Group.					Paul McGivern
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