Daniel "Danny" Anisfeld

Leonard Rodness is a partner in the Commercial Real Estate Group at Torkin Manes LLP in Toronto, Ontario. His Real Estate Law practice encompasses a wide range of commercial real estate matters, including acquisitions and dispositions, development projects , secured lending transactions , leasing arrangements, and cost-sharing matters. He advises clients on complex real estate transactions with a practical and business-focused approach. Len works closely with developers, property owners, borr...

Amanda Lawrence-Patel is a labour, human rights and employment lawyer in Hicks Morley’s Toronto office. She advises and works closely with a large number of employers and service providers in the private and public sectors—including universities, school boards and hospitals—on a wide range of matters involving employment, accommodation, labour relations, collective bargaining, access to services and access to education issues. Amanda is the chair of the firm’s Universi...

Rod Northey is a partner in Gowling WLG's Toronto office and past leader of the firm's Climate Change and Environmental Law Group in Canada. He is in his 35th year of private practice in environmental law and certified by the Law Society of Ontario as a specialist in this field. His current practice focuses on regulatory approvals and strategies across the full range of approval regimes involving the environment — including environmental assessment, land use, endangered species, cultura...

Jill Dougherty has over 20 years of experience acting on behalf of both private and public sector clients. She appears regularly as counsel before the trial and appellate courts and administrative tribunals in many aspects of public law. Jill specializes in public law and civil litigation focusing on professional self-regulation and discipline, judicial review of government decision-making, alcohol and gaming, access to information and privacy, municipal and provincial planning approvals and ...

Lauri Reesor is a partner in Hicks Morley’s Toronto office and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Lauri’s success in building and maintaining long-standing client relationships is a result of her commitment to having an in-depth understanding of her clients’ business and the sector in which they operate, and providing practical, solution-focused legal advice to meet her clients’ business needs while mitigating risk. Her main areas of focus include human ...

Kayla Kwinter is a partner in the Litigation Group and Co-Chair of the Construction Law Group at Torkin Manes LLP in Toronto, Ontario. She advises participants across the construction industry at every stage of a project, including drafting and negotiating contracts, addressing issues that arise during construction, and representing clients in litigation and dispute resolution matters. Kayla’s Construction Law practice includes acting for real estate developers, general contractors, sub...

Jacqueline Luksha, a lawyer in Hicks Morley’s Toronto office, provides practical advice on a wide range of labour and employment issues. She represents clients in human rights complaints, grievance arbitrations, wrongful dismissal and other employment claims, wrongful competition, labour injunctions, restrictive covenants, employment standards complaints and employment contract disputes. Jacqueline is dedicated to building relationships with her clients and developing a deep understandi...

As an intellectual property lawyer and a qualified patent and trademark agent, Anna Wilkinson practises in all areas of intellectual property law, with a focus on the procurement of intellectual property rights. Ms. Wilkinson both manages the Canadian portfolios of global filers and acts for Canadian innovative companies and research institutions. She drafts and prosecutes patent applications for medical devices, diagnostics, pharmaceuticals and biologics, materials and nanomaterials, packagi...

Ritu is the Owner and Managing Partner of Horra Family Law. Ritu has practiced exclusively in family law since her call to the Bar. Ritu’s practice includes all areas of family law including custody, access, support, property issues and collaborative practice. In May 2018, Ritu was appointed to the Dispute Resolution Officer (DRO) panel for the Superior Court of Justice in Newmarket, Ontario. Lawyers appointed to this panel support the family law court process by aiding parties in attem...

Alex graduated with an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto in 2006, and obtained his Juris Doctor from Queen’s University in 2010. He was called to the Bar in 2011. Alex’s clients rely on his detail-oriented, creative and practical solutions to their legal problems. With a broad and varied insurance litigation practice, Alex has a breadth of knowledge in a number of practice areas. He defends a wide range of personal injury claims on behalf of insurers and self...