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Fahad Siddiqui leads our public strategy group. He advises clients on bet-the-company litigation, regulation, and reputational problems. Fahad has successfully brought and defended cases involving contested legislation and regulatory decisions, M&A transactions, commercial claims, shareholder claims, proxy contests, board disputes, contract claims, insolvency disputes, and defamation. His recent work includes acting for international streaming services in a challenge to new internet regul...

David Thompson is a highly distinguished leasing lawyer. Since 1989, his practice has focused on commercial leasing and development law, negotiating large and complex retail, commercial, mixed-use, ground and industrial leasing transactions across Canada, for some of the most significant clients in the field. David regularly acts for landlords, tenants, lenders and property managers. As a partner at WeirFoulds, he has acted for some of Canada’s most well-known national chains in food se...

Lara’s practice encompasses Indigenous laws and governance work, Aboriginal and Treaty rights litigation, and constitutional and public law litigation with a focus on equality rights and anti-discrimination law and policy matters. Lara works with First Nations on lands and resource issues and is passionate about advancing Indigenous land and water stewardship, including through Guardians and Indigenous Protected and Conserved Area (IPCA) initiatives. Lara has a background in internation...

Richard Charney is a senior partner in our Toronto office, where he practises management labour relations and employment law, a field in which he is widely recognized as an advocate on behalf of national and local clients. For more than 10 years, he was Norton Rose Fulbright's global head of employment and labour. Mr. Charney acts for numerous employers and employers’ organizations and appears at provincial and federal labour relations boards and the courts, including the Supreme Court ...

Joel Cormier earned his LL.B. from Queen’s University in 2005 and was called to the Ontario bar in 2006. Joel’s areas of expertise include subrogation, insurance defence, construction and personal injury litigation. Joel has considerable experience representing clients at trial and on appeal.

David was recently selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Canada 2017 the in the areas of Insurance Law and Personal Injury Litigation. David was called to the bar in 1985. His legal career has been spent primarily representing property and casualty insurers in all matters relating to these areas of insurance law. David's areas of expertise include all tort claims, special investigation work, commercial general liability work, product liability litigation, coverage opinion...

Who is Julia Vilorio-Peguero? Julia Vilorio-Peguero is a Vaughan, Ontario personal injury litigation lawyer and partner at Campisi LLP . She was named Partner at the firm alongside colleagues Imtiaz Hosein and Adam Kuciej, a recognition of her dedication to clients, her contribution to the firm, and the standard of work she brings to every case. Julia represents individuals and families across Ontario who have suffered serious accidents and injuries, advocating for fair outcomes and full reco...

Kenneth Jull is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area of Administrative and Public Law. Kenneth practices law in Toronto, Ontario Best Lawyers has recognized Kenneth Jull since 2025. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Kenneth Jull is held by other lawyers.

Jennifer K. Howard is a Toronto family lawyer and partner at Devry Smith Frank LLP (DSF). She joined the firm in 2016 after practising at a large, full-service firm in downtown Toronto. Jennifer earned her Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Ontario Bar in 2007. Jennifer advises and represents clients across a broad range of family law matters, including child and spousal support, property equalization, parenting arrangements, and the preparation and negotiatio...

Larry is a partner at Olthuis, Kleer, Townshend LLP practising at the intersections of Indigenous rights and environmental law. Larry has worked with First Nations on lands and resources issues for over 25 years, and has developed extensive experience in the negotiation of impacts and benefits agreements, environmental assessment, co-management measures, self-government and treaty provisions. He also represents and advises First Nations dealing with major mining, forestry and energy developme...