Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP

4 King Street West, Suite 900
Toronto, ON M5H 1B6
Canada
Phone: 416-863-0711

Website: http://www.willmsshier.com

Firm Profile

Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP is one of Canada's leading legal firms. Our team delivers a full range of environmental law advice and service for Canada's most complex environmental law challenges. Through a commitment to responsiveness to client needs and objectives, we provide practical, actionable legal solutions and support.

Willms & Shier lawyers are Canada's experts, known for extensive knowledge and innovative solutions in a broad range of practice areas including defence of prosecution, corporate due diligence and risk management, toxic tort litigation, brownfields strategy and contaminated site remediation, environmental assessment and approvals, municipal law and land use planning. Our leadership and participation at conferences and events helps us maintain cutting edge knowledge and analysis of Canada's changing environmental laws.

Contact Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers. We'll anticipate your environmental law needs, deliver expert advice, on time and on budget, with service and care that exceeds expectations.

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  • Top-Listed in Ontario in Environmental Law with 3 lawyers. *
  • Top-Listed in Toronto, Ontario in Environmental Law with 3 lawyers. *

 

* One or more other firms have tied for this top listing.

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Donna S. K. Shier

In my career with major food-producing companies, my responsibilities have included that for environmental programs and affairs. I have thus worked with Donna Shier now for over the last 20 years or so. She has worked to resolve many complex environmental issues and set up key due diligence programs and also developed corporate and operational policies and programs. She is a well-qualified and experienced environmental lawyer. Donna Shier is the epitome of diligence in researching environmental projects, identifying the key issues and providing outstanding advice to her clients. Donna works quickly and can meet tough deadlines with accuracy and diligence. She covers all the ground and leaves no stone unturned. She also has a very effective way to reduce the complex to the understandable. I have found Donna Shier's advice always appropriate and going beyond the minimal scope of the work she is doing. Her leadership abilities are extremely good in the way she develops a team relationship with her clients and presents information in a clear, understandable manner, adjusting her style to her audience and advising on sometimes distasteful environmental circumstances in a very acceptable manner. Proof of her abilities and performance lies in the fact that Donna Shier would be my first call on any environmental matter, be it interpretations of regulatory issues, development of corporate business environmental planning, environmental assessments, or the resolution of serious legal environmental issues. Quite simply, she is one of the best!

Peter Smith
Maple Leaf Foods

Donna is in the top of her field because she is extremely knowledgeable and able to translate the environmental terminology into layman's terms. She is precise in her execution of information and her team enables the client to feel fully in the process. We found Donna to be very accessible and at ease dealing with clients, staff and the opposing lawyers. Her confidence aids in the trust felt by the client.

Sarah Silverberg
D.S.F. Holdings Limited

Ms. Shier has always proven to be professional and knowledgeable in all our dealings. Her broad experience allows her to offer many alternative options and she always responds on a timely basis.

Anonymous

 

Contacts

  • •Aboriginal Law
    Katherine Koostachin
    Tel: 416-862-4823
  • •Aboriginal Law • Renewable Energy Law • Real Estate Law (Financing and Commercial Leasing)
    Cherie Brant
    Tel: 416-862-4829
  • •All aspects of environmental law.
    Donna S. K. Shier
    Tel: 416-862-4822
  • •Approvals & Compliance • Contaminated Land & Brownfields • Environmental Law for Municipalities • Environmental Management • Government Policy & Law • Land Use Planning & Development • Natural Resources Law • Regulatory Orders & Prosecutions
    John R. Willms
    Tel: 416-862-4821
  • •Contaminated Land & Brownfields • Approvals & Compliance • Regulatory Orders & Prosecutions • Environmental Management • Clean Technology • Energy Law (Climate Change) • Environmental Litigation
    John Georgakopoulos
    Tel: 416-862-4826
  • •Environmental Law for Municipalities • Environmental Management • Land Use Planning & Development • Regulatory Orders & Prosecutions • Approvals & Compliance • Government Policy & Law
    P. Douglas Petrie
    Tel: 416-862-4835
  • •Environmental Law for Municipalities • Regulatory Orders & Prosecutions • Government Policy & Law • Land Use Planning & Development • Aboriginal Law • Energy Law • Natural Resource Law • Clean Technology
    Juli Abouchar
    Tel: 416-862-4836
  • •Environmental Litigation • Contaminated Land & Brownfields • Aboriginal Law • Natural Resources Law
    Jacquelyn Stevens
    Tel: 416-862-4828
  • •Environmental Litigation • Contaminated Land & Brownfields • Defence of Regulatory Orders & Prosecutions • Natural Resources Law
    Vivienne M. Ball
    Tel: 416-862-4824
  • •Environmental Litigation • Contaminated Land & Brownfields • Regulatory Orders & Prosecutions • Environmental Law for Municipalitites • Environmental Management
    Marc McAree
    Tel: 416-862-4820
  • •Environmental Litigation • Renewable Energy Law
    Matthew Gardner
    Tel: 416-862-4825
  • Litigation of civil and regulatory environmental claims
    Joanna Vince
    Tel: 416-862-4830

Listed Lawyers

Canada
Energy Regulatory Law
Environmental Law

Offices

Canada
  • Toronto, ON
    4 King Street West, Suite 900
    Toronto, ON M5H 1B6
    Canada
    Phone: 416-863-0711

Practice Areas

Aboriginal Law Approvals & Compliance
Clean Technology Contaminated Land & Brownfields
Energy Law Environmental Law for Municipalities
Environmental Litigation Environmental Management
Government Policy & Law Land Use Planning & Development
Natural Resource Law Regulatory Orders & Prosecutions

Approvals & Compliance
•Air, Noise and Vibration Emissions
•Drinking Water & Source Protection
•Environmental Assessment
•Industrial Pollution Control
•Pesticides, New Substances Notification
•Waste Management
•Wastewater Treatment