Our institutional clients count on us for expert legal advice, thorough investigations, rigorous prosecutions, and creative adjudicator training.

We act as Independent Legal Counsel to regulatory tribunals for disciplinary and good character hearings.  We also provide advice to institutions on policies and procedures, including assistance in drafting Rules of Professional Conduct, and Rules of Procedure for hearings.

We undertake investigations of regulated professionals, workplace incidents, and incidents occurring in shared residential premises such as condominiums.

We conduct effective and efficient prosecutions of professionals on behalf of regulatory bodies.

We also provide training for adjudicators in a variety of settings, focusing on experiential learning wherein participants are engaged and involved.

We understand the impact of complaints and prosecutions on the reputations of professionals. We provide discreet and trusted counsel. We also practice and advise with a sensitivity to mental health issues and the potential interplay between mental health and professional misconduct.

We have represented lawyers, paralegals, doctors, nurses, practitioners of Chinese Medicine, naturopaths, social workers, massage therapists, pharmacists, condominium managers, professional engineers, and real estate agents, among other regulated professionals.

We assist professionals facing regulatory complaints, including both conduct and capacity investigations. We have represented professionals faced with allegations of failing to serve, acting without integrity, acting in a conflict of interest, misappropriation of funds, providing ineffective assistance of counsel and engaging in inappropriate conduct with clients/patients. We have represented applicants seeking admission and readmission into their chosen profession. We provide litigation advice and guidance on ethical issues and provide guidance to employees subject to workplace investigations.

Our strategic advocacy aims to avoid unnecessary conflict, but we do not hesitate to employ our vast arsenal of litigation experience to fight zealously to protect our clients’ interests when appropriate.

Our experience in the fields of administrative, civil, and criminal law and our knowledge of the interplay among these fields means that we are exceptionally well positioned to anticipate and pre-emptively address potential collateral threats to our clients’ interests.

We represent students facing academic and non-academic misconduct investigations and prosecutions.

We assist students with the preparation of good character applications, provide counsel during good character investigations and represent licensee applicants facing good character hearings before their regulator.

We represent appellants before the Law Society Appeal Division, the Divisional Court, the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada.