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Simon Bieber, Sean Blakely, and Caroline Harrell act for the plaintiffs in a $17.5M action against Arlene Dickinson. The plaintiffs are former shareholders and employees of Argyle Communications, a Toronto-based public relations company that was one of four firms to merge with Ms. Dickinson's Venture Communications in 2022 to create a communications "superfirm".

The plaintiffs allege that Ms. Dickinson made fraudulent misrepresentations about Venture's financial health and projected performance to induce them to participate in the consolidation, and that she used her position of power within the consolidated company to both conceal her misrepresentations and misuse company funds for her own personal gain. The case was recently featured in Canadian Lawyer Magazine and the Toronto Star.