Foglers is pleased to announce that the 41 lawyers were selected by their peers for inclusion in the 2024 edition of the Best Lawyers in Canada and Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.
Best Lawyers compiles its lists of outstanding lawyers by conducting peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluate their professional peers.
Hailey Abramsky – Corporate & Commercial Litigation “Ones to Watch”
Tammy Anklewicz – Trusts and Estates
Kathryn Balter – Trusts and Estates
Leonard Bosschart – Trusts and Estates
Don Bourgeois – Gaming Law
Blair Bowen – Corporate & Commercial Litigation
Jennifer Campbell – Mining Law
Denis Chamberland – Public Procurement Law
Steven Cygelfarb – Real Estate Law and Commercial Leasing Law
Milton A. Davis – Legal Malpractice Law
Roberto De Pasquale – Corporate Law “Ones to Watch”
Michael Donsky – Administrative and Public Law
Tim Duncan – Municipal Law
Albert Engel – Environmental Law
Joel Farber – Expropriation Law, Municipal Law and Real Estate Law
Michael B. Fraleigh – Health Care Law and Medical Negligence
Joseph Fried – Real Estate Law
Jeffrey B. Goldenberg – Real Estate Law
Bill Hearn – Advertising and Marketing Law
Katherine Hensel – Aboriginal Law / Indigenous Practice
Eric N. Hoffstein – Charities/Non-Profit, Construction Law, Corporate and Commercial Litigation and Trusts and Estates
Ian N. Kady – Real Estate Law
Gary Kissack – Aboriginal Law / Indigenous Practice
Ross MacDougall – Construction Law
Kenneth W. Movat – Construction Law
Young Park – Administrative and Public Law and Corporate & Commercial Litigation
Marko Petrovic – Corporate & Commercial Litigation “Ones to Watch”
Lori Prokopich – Banking & Finance Law
Karen Rosen – Banking & Finance Law, Corporate Law and Energy Law
Richard Rotchtin – Real Estate Law
Howard Rubinoff – Banking and Finance Law
Leneo Sdao – Real Estate Law
Immi Sikand – Immigration law
Michael S. Slan – Natural Resources Law
Charles W. Skipper – Construction Law
Colleen Spring Zimmerman – Intellectual Property Law
Avi Sugar – Real Estate Law
William J. Taggart – Aboriginal Law / Indigenous Practice
Scott Venton – Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law
Mary Wahbi – Trusts and Estates
Larry Winton – Real Estate Law
We are pleased to share that the following lawyers will play important roles as members of the 2023-2024 OBA Section Executives.
Kathryn Balter, incoming Vice Chair, OBA Trusts & Estates Law
Alexander Evangelista, incoming Public Affairs Liaison, OBA Young Lawyers Division (Central)
Samantha Green, incoming Vice Chair, OBA Civil Litigation
William Taggart, incoming Technology Liaison, OBA Aboriginal Law
Congratulations to Karen Rosen who was honoured at the Paul Penna DJDS’s 25th Anniversary Gala. Dedicated to her clients and her community, Karen is a tireless advocate and deserving leader. Congratulations on this recognition!
We are thrilled to announce that Fogler, Rubinoff LLP has been voted as one of the top three law firms by Canadian Lawyer Magazine in their annual ranking of leading Ontario Regional Firms.
Canadian Lawyer Magazine surveyed lawyers, in-house counsel and clients from across Canada to nominate firms worthy of being ranked, and then created an open survey from that list which was distributed throughout the publication’s channels. Voters were asked to make their choices based on each firm’s “regional service coverage, client base, notable mandates, service excellence and legal expertise.”
Thank you to our peers, colleagues and clients for once again recognizing us with this honour, and congratulations to all of the firms ranked in the survey this year.
Click here to read the full rankings in Canadian Lawyer Magazine.
Congratulations to April Gougeon, Bill Hearn and Ronald Davis for winning a Mondaq 2023 Thought Leader Award for their article: What’s Ahead in 2023 for Privacy and Cybersecurity Law. The award showcases top authors based on readership across 15 countries and multiple areas of law.
Calling all 2SLGBTQ+ law students who will be applying to recruits in Toronto in 2023! We hope you’ll join us at this year’s in-person Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Firm Hop. The Canadian Association of LGBTQ2S+ Lawyers is proud to be organizing the 2023 Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Firm Hop, taking place from Monday, March 13, to Friday March 17, 2023. Students are able to choose which firms they’re interested in touring (each firm tour lasts 1 hour) but must choose a minimum of 7 (with the maximum number of available firm tours being 26).
Congratulations to our Partners on being recognized as leading lawyers in the 2023 Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory.
Steven A. Cygelfarb – Property Leasing
Jeffrey Goldenberg – Property Development
Bill Hearn – Advertising & Marketing Law
Katherine Hensel – Aboriginal Law
Eric Hoffstein – Estate & Personal Tax Planning and Estate Litigation
Alex Kolandjian – Property Leasing and Lawyers to Watch
Ken Movat – Construction Law
Karen Rosen – Asset Based Lending and Banking & Financial Institutions
Vickie Wong – Banking & Financial Institutions
Each lawyer was selected based upon a comprehensive annual survey, ongoing since 1994. They are acknowledged as leaders in their respective fields and are prominent lawyers in their practice areas.
In the first decision of its kind, Fogler, Rubinoff lawyers Justin Jakubiak and Adam Varro were successful in obtaining a cost award against the Ontario Motor Vehicle Industry Council (OMVIC), Ontario’s motor vehicle sales regulator.
The application was made further to our client’s successful appeal to the Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT) of OMVIC’s proposal to refuse his salesperson’s licence on account of alleged improper conduct as a sales manager of a large franchise dealership. In her decision, the presiding member acknowledged the high burden to achieve a cost award but found it unreasonable that “the Registrar continued the hearing to completion (a startling 13 days of evidence), despite the case…showing multiple weaknesses early on and throughout the hearing.” The presiding member further found that OMVIC acted unreasonably by failing to entertain numerous offers to settle made before and during the hearing.
Costs are rarely awarded at the LAT, and we are unaware of another decision where they have been awarded against a regulator. This decision serves as an important precedent for future instances where a regulator unreasonably pursues its case and in doing so causes unnecessary expense and prejudice to an applicant’s ability to participate in their industry of choice. The full decision can be found here.
On October 7, the Inuvialuit Regional Corporation (IRC), was granted leave to intervene at the Supreme Court in the appeal of the Quebec Court of Appeal reference case on An Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families. This will be a landmark constitutional case with respect to Indigenous peoples’ inherent jurisdiction and legislative authority over the well-being of their children, youth, and families.
Katherine Hensel, lead counsel to IRC, noted that the Inuvialuit child wellbeing law, Inuvialuit Qitunrariit Inuuniarnikkun Maligaksat, is set to come into force and effect in November, 2022, and that the Inuvialuit law’s administration and operation “will be directly impacted by the outcome of the Court’s decision in this case, as will the laws being developed across Canada by other Indigenous governing bodies.”
The date for the hearing at the Supreme Court is scheduled for December 7 & 8, and the Court’s decision will be released in 2023.
IRC is represented in the case by Katherine Hensel and Kristie Tsang of Fogler, Rubinoff LLP
We are thrilled to welcome back in-person our 2022-2023 Articling Students. Learn more about each of them and their experiences on the students@foglers section of the website.
