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Gerald Chan – Pivoting, Preparation, and Rap Battles
In just 10 years since his call in 2007, Gerald has proven himself as one of the most accomplished litigators in Canada, and overall just a really great guy. His CV and accomplishments reads like a...
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Michael Lacy – Don’t let the law get in the way of your argument
In this episode of “Of Counsel”, we hear from President of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association, Michael Lacy. Join us as we listen to Michael discuss the lessons he has learned over his many years in...
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Danielle Robitaille: It has to be your calling
Our guest in this this episode of “Of Counsel is criminal defence counsel Danielle Robitaille. Danielle is a trial lawyer and partner with Henein Hutchinson LLP in Toronto. Henein Hutchinson is...
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Adam Wagman: Breathe. Just Breathe.
Last year, Adam Wagman was named among the most influential lawyers in Canada by Canadian Lawyer Magazine. With his performance in 2017 as the Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Association President, he fits...
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Breese Davies: Tell a compelling story.
Breese Davies is a shining star among lawyers for her accomplishments in criminal, constitutional, and human rights law. In 2017, she was awarded the Law Society of Ontario’s Laura Legge Award awarded...
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Tom Curry: Aim high.
Tom Curry is widely recognized as one of Canada’s best litigators. Just recently, he was elevated to the position of managing partner at Lenczner Slaght in Toronto. He acts as counsel before all...
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Glenford Jameson: Be critical, food matters.
This week’s episode of Of Counsel will stimulate not only your intellect but your appetite as we speak to one of Canada’s only food lawyers, Glenford Jameson. Glenford is a legal trailblazer. In...
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Joseph Groia: Be tough, be concise, be persuasive, then shut up and sit down.
He has spent his career defending unpopular clients, advocating principled positions, and holding strong in face of a relentless prosecution by the Law Society of Ontario for allegations of...
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Gillian Hnatiw: #MeToo is not a he-said, she-said issue. We are past due to...
This episode’s guest on Of Counsel is Gillian Hnatiw. Gillian practices in administrative, health, employment, and professional liability law. She has also developed a very high level of expertise in...
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Sara Mainville: Allowing our communities to advance, in the way we live.
Sara Mainville is one of the most reputable and accomplished First Nations’ lawyers in Canada. In this episode of Of Counsel, Sara Mainville joins us to discuss her role as counsel, strategic advisor,...
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Don Stuart: a professor’s reflection on Canadian criminal constitutional law.
In this episode of Of Counsel, we sat down with leading constitutional and criminal scholar, Professor Don Stuart of Queen’s University on a tranquil snowy afternoon at his office in Kingston. Born...
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Jacqueline Horvat: making room for women at the table as leaders.
Jacqueline Horvat is a founding partner of Spark LLP in Toronto, and the youngest person ever elected bencher to the Law Society of Ontario. After leaving on of Canada’s best litigation firms, she now...
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Tom Cromwell: reflections on the Supreme Court of Canada, advocacy, and the...
This episode’s Of Counsel podcast, is particularly special as we host a former judge of the Supreme Court of Canada: The Honourable Justice Tom Cromwell. After an illustrious career in practice, then...
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Anita Szigeti: I am this person’s lawyer.
Anita Szigeti is one of Canada’s leading mental heath lawyers. Her expertise spans all aspects of mental health and its interactions with the Canadian justice system. Her passion for her clients and...
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Paul Schabas: In the public’s interest.
Paul Schabas was elected Treasurer of the Law Society of Ontario in 2016. Now sitting in his final months as the elected head of Ontario’s governing body of lawyers, Paul reflects on his past two...
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Annamaria Enenajor: make demands upon your profession.
Annamaria Enenajor is a legal phenom and inspiration among her peers. She holds her BA from the University of Toronto, her Masters of Science from Oxford, and her civil and common law degrees from...
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The Ryerson Law Practice Program: Gina Alexandris, André Bacchus, and Chris...
Recognizing a need for alternative pathways for graduated law students to successfully advance to lawyers, the Law Society launched the Law Practice Program in 2014. The initiative was bold and met...
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Live Podcast with Lorne Sossin on legal education (and bonus tips on podcasting)
This episode of Of Counsel is particularly special. For the first time ever, we did a live interview before a large group of listeners at the Canadian Defence Lawyers Annual National Conference with...
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Justice David Stratas: Courage is the source of all great advocacy
The Honourable Justice David Stratas sits on Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal. He is our first actively sitting judge on our podcast. Prior to his direct appointment, Justice Stratas enjoyed an...
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Michael J. Bryant: The Circumstance of Equals
This episode’s guest is former Attorney General of Ontario, Micheal Bryant. Michael’s personal story in law is one that spans the entire spectrum of the justice system. After clerking at the Supreme...
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Melissa Kluger: Listen to your entrepreneur voice, and take the risk.
In this Of Counsel episode, we interview the editor and creator of Precedent Magazine, Melissa Kluger. As a lawyer who embraced her inner voice to do what she always wanted, Melissa tells us her story...
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Rocco Galati: The Rule of Law is all we have
For our listeners who have patiently awaited the next episode of our podcast, you won’t be disappointed. We are joined by one of Canada’s most influential lawyers, Rocco Galati. Rocco has held the...
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Brian Greenspan: Allegations are not enough.
In this episode of Of Counsel, we are joined by legendary criminal defence lawyer, Brian Greenspan. Over the past 45 years, Brian has defined himself as one of Canada’s best. Repeatedly ranked as...
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Camille Labchuk: Social change comes before legal change.
In this episode of Of Counsel, we are joined by Canada’s leading animal rights and welfare lawyer, Camille Labchuk. For over well over a decade, Camille has dedicated her life to animal justice and...
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Howard Levitt: The Gift of Disruption
In this episode of Of Counsel we bring you Howard Levitt. From an early age, Howard’s gift of disruption set him on a course to become one of Canada’s leading employment lawyers. In a recent Globe and...
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Jordana Goldlist: A different frame of reference.
As someone who who came from a background of surviving on the street as a youth, it’s no surprise that Jordana Goldlist now defends the downtrodden of society with a passion and wisdom very few in the...
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Julie Stanchieri: Be the calm in the storm
Julie Stanchieri is one of Canada’s leading family lawyers, and lead counsel to Stanchieri Family Law in Toronto. Beyond her remarkable case specific achievements, Julie has a deep understanding and...
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Alan D. Gold: The Criminal Justice Process
Alan D. Gold is one of Canada’s foremost criminal lawyers. He has appeared as counsel before all levels of court in Ontario, as well as in other provinces, and for over 50 cases in the Supreme Court of...
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Jordan Furlong: The Evolution of Law
Jordan Furlong is a forecaster of the legal market’s future. Law firms and legal organizations retain him to advise their lawyers how to build sustainable and competitive legal enterprises that can...
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Lisa Kerr: Deserving recipients of forgiveness
This week, our podcast brings you Professor Lisa Kerr, from Queen’s University Faculty of Law in Kingston. Lisa’s expertise takes us into the concrete corridors and confines of prison law, and the law...
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Donald Bayne: the threat against the rule of law.
In the course of practicing for over 40 years, Donald Bayne has entrenched himself as one of the best criminal defence lawyers Canada has ever known. Despite this, his humility, compassion for human...
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Carissima Mathen: a means to hold them accountable
Carissima Mathen grew up wanting to dance on Broadway, but today, she serves as the Vice-Dean (Academic) and Full Professor of Law at the University of Ottawa Law School. Prior to her distinguished...
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Emilie Taman and Micheal Spratt: take care of your work and family and the...
Emilie Taman and Micheal Spratt are a powerhouse couple in Canadian law. In addition to their remarkable accomplishments in Court, Micheal and Emilie’s influence is far reaching with their ground...
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Peter MacKay: It’s a human pacifier to try and understand the other side
With a long and accomplished career in politics, including acting as the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Peter MacKay is one of Canada’s most widely recognized lawyers. During his...
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Orlando Da Silva: I didn’t come this far, just to come this far.
As the former President of the Ontario Bar Association, Law Society Medalist, and an exemplary career in law, Orlando Da Silva enters 2019 well positioned as he seeks election for Bencher with the Law...
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William C. McDowell: Recognize the importance of empathy in the law.
One person familiar with Will and his career described him as having the “widest range of advocacy skills in all of Canada.” A partner with the elite litigation firm Lenczner Slaght in Toronto, Will’s...
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Atrisha Lewis: Shattering glass ceilings.
There are few in Canadian legal history who have reached the success, respect, and accomplishments in such a short period of time as Atrisha Lewis. Within 5 years of her call date in 2013, Atrisha is...
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Douglas Judson & Heather Donkers: We need to have a conversation about...
Leaders of the bar are not always perched in high positions on Bay Street or litigating a case at the Supreme Court of Canada. Sometimes leaders of the professions are found in law school, or as...
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Paul Le Vay: “Le bon avocat aide son client. L’excellent avocat aide le juge.”
Ep.#40: Paul Le Vay “Le bon avocat aide son client. L’excellent avocat aide le juge.” Stockwoods LLP partner Paul Le Vay is one of Canada’s top litigators. His areas of practice include commercial,...
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Jonathan Kay: Connect your ideas to how people experience life.
While few people think of Jonathan Kay as a lawyer, after completing an engineering degree at McGill University, Jon scored perfect on his LSAT score and was admitted to Yale Law School. His legal...
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Steven Skurka “May I continue Your Honour?”
Steven Skurka is one of Canada’s most well known criminal defence lawyers. In this episode, he discusses the importance of preparation, courage, and willingness to think differently when advocating....
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Michael Marin “The red ink is a good sign”
Micheal Marin “The red ink is a good sign” After a bit of a hiatus, Of Counsel reboots in 2020 with a three-part mini series profiling the University Faculty of Law. In this episode, we interview UNB...
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Nicole O’Byrne “The pillars of Canadian Society”
Nicole O’Byrne “The pillars of Canadian Society” After a bit of a hiatus, Of Counsel reboots in 2020 with a three-part mini series profiling the University Faculty of Law. In this episode, we...
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Kerri Froc “The academic dialogue”
Kerri Froc “The academic dialogue” After a bit of a hiatus, Of Counsel reboots in 2020 with a three-part mini series profiling the University Faculty of Law. In this episode, we interview Prof. Kerri...
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Kaveh Shahrooz “Freedom of speech is the corrective used for wrongs”
Kaveh Shahrooz’ remarkable journey starts at the age of 8 with the execution of his uncle in Iran. This, along with his legal education at Harvard Law, set the scene for what propelled Kaveh into...
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Edward Prutschi “We are the defenders of the wall”
Edward Prutschi “We are the defenders of the wall” Criminal defence lawyer Edward Prutschi discusses fulfilling his lifelong dream of becoming a criminal defence lawyer, the evolution of practice, the...
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Amy Slotek “The provision of human dignity”
Amy Slotek “The provision of human dignity” Legal Aid Ontario staff lawyer and Sounds Times project lead, Amy Slotek, discusses her lengthy history in fighting for human rights, her time spent working...
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