Law Times

Founded in 1980, Law Times is a publication under Thomson Reuters that comes out 40 times a year in print and is available online every Monday. It delivers up-to-date news, insights, and updates related to the legal landscape in Ontario. Every edition features three essential sections: news analysis and commentary, focus sections that delve into particular practice areas, and caselaw, which covers previously unreported decisions from various court levels. Additionally, each print issue includes entertaining original editorial cartoons, reaching 12,550 legal professionals each week.

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Kelly McDermott receives King Charles III Coronation Medal

5 days ago | lawtimesnews.com | Jacqueline So

The former Ontario Bar Association president has been recognized as a champion of equity and inclusion BY 02 Jun 2025 Former Ontario Bar Association president Kelly McDermott has received the King Charles III Coronation Medal, acknowledging her significant contributions to Canada's legal profession. The region of Durham senior solicitor had led the OBA for 18 months after the COVID-19 pandemic.
Fogler, Rubinoff adds Alain Bartleman as Indigenous law partner

1 week ago | lawtimesnews.com | Bernise Carolino

At Nahwegahbow Corbiere, he was lead counsel to First Nations on litigation, negotiations, projects BY 28 May 2025 Alain Bartleman, a member of the Chippewas of Rama First Nation, has joined Fogler, Rubinoff LLP in Toronto as a partner in its Indigenous law practice department this month. Bartleman’s work focuses on negotiating impact and community benefit, participation, revenue sharing, resource development, and similar agreements for First Nations across Canada.
FOLA deeply concerned over Ontario government’s civil rules reform process

1 week ago | lawtimesnews.com | Bernise Carolino

Resolution calls for changes to reflect diverse realities of civil litigation across province BY 26 May 2025 A resolution unanimously passed by the Federation of Ontario Law Associations (FOLA) membership asks the provincial government to ensure broader representation and an evidentiary basis when working to reform the Rules of Civil Procedure, RRO 1990, Reg 194.
Davies welcomes tax advocate Molly Luu as partner in Toronto

2 weeks ago | lawtimesnews.com | Bernise Carolino

She was most recently a partner in Miller Thomson’s tax disputes resolution group BY 21 May 2025 Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP has announced the addition of Molly Luu, who focuses her practice on tax litigation, as a partner in its tax group in the Toronto office. Luu assists clients with tax controversies at all levels of taxation – including reviews, audits, and administrative objections – both in the courts and beyond.
Man in Toronto pleads guilty to Canada’s highest-value terrorism financing scheme

2 weeks ago | lawtimesnews.com | Bernise Carolino

This is also the country’s first successful terrorism funding conviction involving crypto use BY 20 May 2025 The Royal Canadian Mounted Police announced that a 36-year-old Toronto resident pleaded guilty before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in Toronto to two charges in connection with a terrorism financing scheme with the highest monetary value in Canada’s history.
Matthew Sutton on bias at the LAT: Balancing a tilted tribunal

2 weeks ago | lawtimesnews.com | Mallory Hendry

Early prep, rebuttals, and client-centred advocacy matter — especially during trauma season BY 20 May 2025 This article was produced in partnership with Thomson Rogers. As a former insurance defence lawyer, Thomson Rogers’ Matthew Sutton is well acquainted with the bias that exists in insurer medical examinations (IMEs). “I’d be shocked if anyone claimed that less than 90-95% aren’t insurer-favourable,” Sutton says.
BLG adds capital markets and derivatives lawyer Emily O'Donohue as counsel

3 weeks ago | lawtimesnews.com | Bernise Carolino

She has over 20 years' experience advising asset managers, other institutional investors BY 16 May 2025 Borden Ladner Gervais LLP (BLG) has added Emily O’Donohue, an experienced capital markets and derivatives lawyer, as counsel in the firm’s corporate and capital markets group in Toronto.
Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act to accelerate home and infrastructure building

3 weeks ago | lawtimesnews.com | Jacqueline So

The province has also increased its investment in water systems and housing infrastructure funds BY 14 May 2025 The Ontario government has tabled the Protect Ontario by Building Faster and Smarter Act, 2025 to accelerate home and infrastructure building in the province. The legislation will streamline development processes and cut costs in collaboration with municipalities.
Ontario Court of Justice adds 42 new justices of the peace

3 weeks ago | lawtimesnews.com | Bernise Carolino

Appointees include Michael Gauthey, bilingual prosecutor and solicitor for Toronto BY 14 May 2025 The 42 justices of the peace newly appointed to the Ontario Court of Justice include individuals with a legal background, such as Joanne Michelle Marie Clouston, Annette Jennifer Franks Diamond, Michael Gauthey, and Sarah Rachel Morgan-White.
Registration revoked for physician who pleaded guilty to harassing 12 girls

3 weeks ago | lawtimesnews.com | Bernise Carolino

Doctor admits to public masturbation in the same vehicle he used to follow children BY 14 May 2025 A physician has admitted before a panel of an Ontario discipline tribunal that his acts of repeatedly following 12 girls with his vehicle and publicly masturbating in the line of sight of an adult woman amounted to professional misconduct. In College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario v.