Krystyne Rusek

A senior member of the Family Law bar and a senior partner in our Family Law Group, Lorne’s practice includes all aspects of family law, including divorce, custody and access, property, support, and domestic contracts. He conducts litigation before every level of court in Ontario, as well as providing mediation and arbitration services. He also acts as counsel to lawyers and accountants addressing family law concerns that arise in business, wills and estates, and personal financial plan...

Gervas W. Wall is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Intellectual Property Law. Gervas W., who practices law in Toronto, Ontario, has been recognized since 2006. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Gervas W. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Melanie D. McNaught is a partner in the firm. She joined the firm as an associate in 2003. Prior to joining the firm, Melanie clerked at the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Melanie practises in all areas of labour and employment law. She has a particular interest in civil litigation, education law, privacy and human rights. She has represented clients before all levels of court, at labour arbitration and numerous administrative tribunals, including the Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Huma...

Catherine Milne is a founding partner of Turnpenney Milne LLP. She has been a member of the Law Society of Ontario since 1993. In 2018, she was called to the Bar in British Columbia. She obtained her law degree from Osgoode Hall and received a General Diploma in Law from the London School of Economics. In 2001, she was granted an Honours Certificate in Human Resource Management from Humber College and in 2018, she received her AWI-CH from the Association of Workplace Investigators. Catherine ...

Karima Kanani is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Health Care Law. Karima, who practices law in Toronto, Ontario, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Karima is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Mark Rowlinson advances the interests of workers in his international law, trade law and labour law practice. He also advocates in the area of climate and the environment. Mark joined the firm after a 26-year career with one of Canada’s largest private sector trade unions. He has decades of experience in litigating a wide variety of labour law cases before labour boards, arbitrators and in the courts across Canada. He has also litigated labour cases under Canada’s trade agreements...

Brian Pukier is a partner in the Corporate Group, whose practice is focused primarily on cross-border M&A, private equity investments, corporate finance transactions, complex corporate reorganizations and public policy. He is also called upon by his clients to advise them on corporate governance and crisis management issues. Brian is widely recognized as one of the country’s leading corporate and M&A lawyers. He has extensive experience in counselling senior management and the b...

Neil M. Smiley is a leading lawyer in complex real estate transactions, planning and development. Having a unique dual experience in commercial real estate lawyer as well as a planning and development lawyer, Neil advises clients regarding the acquisition, financing, leasing and disposition of real property, as well as in connection with the myriad of approvals and entitlements required of governmental authorities to maximize value and/or develop such real property. Neil provides corporate su...

Darcy Romaine is a trial lawyer for the seriously injured. He has won trials where liability is complex and where the injuries involve catastrophic brain injury, complicated orthopaedic injury, and severe burn injury. Professionally, he is best known for his trials involving municipal negligence and his courtroom efforts to have regulations governing municipality maintenance obligations struck for providing unsafe and inadequate levels of care to the motoring public. Darcy has also acted as o...

Maureen has a large and diverse litigation practice which includes commercial litigation, competition law litigation, property disputes, employment disputes, medical malpractice and personal injury litigation. She appears regularly before all levels of court in Ontario as well as in mediations, arbitrations and before a number of tribunals. In addition, Maureen has significant experience in injunction proceedings and has both written and spoken at conferences on Mareva injunctions. Maureen ha...