Legal Research Training FOR PARALEGALS Biographical Summaries for Program Faculty [In Alphabetical Order]
Jeanette Bosschart Jeanette is currently the Head of Library Client Services at the Law Society of Upper Canada s Great Library. She is responsible for managing and developing the library s research services and collections. She is also actively involved in providing research assistance and training to lawyers, paralegals and students. She has spoken at various CPD programs on the topic of practical research skills. Jeanette has also taught legal research and writing as an adjunct professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto since 2009.
Phil Brown Counsel, Professional Development and Competence Law Society of Upper Canada 130 Queen Street West, Toronto, ON M5H 2N6 Background Phil graduated from Dalhousie University with a B.Sc. (Hon) and an LLB. He was called to the Bar in Nova Scotia in 1985 and Ontario in 1989. He also holds a post-graduate certificate from Centennial College in e-commerce. Areas of Practice and Experience Phil practised criminal law exclusively as a sole practitioner before joining Legal Aid Ontario as the Coordinator of Lawyer Relations. He was responsible for marketing the Legal Aid Online billing project which automated lawyer payments. The project had a 90% uptake by lawyers within the first 6 months. He joined the Law Society of Upper Canada in 2008 as Counsel in the Professional Development and Competence department and has been involved in CPD planning, accreditation, and certified specialist certification. He participates in developing resources for solos and small firm lawyers and for the past five years has worked on the Practice Management Helpline team assisting lawyers with issues related to the Law Society By-laws, Rules of Professional Conduct and professionalism questions. He is also working on a series of technology podcasts with David Whelan. Professional Activities He is currently a member of the Ontario Criminal Lawyers Association and is the Photo Editor of For The Defence magazine. He is a presenter at continuing professional development programs and has spoken at the American Bar Association, Criminal Lawyers Association, Hamilton Law Association, Toronto Lawyers Association, and Law Society programs. He has been a lecturer and instructor in the professional responsibility course and the Professional Conduct and Practice in Ontario course.
Rick Goodman Fredrick Goodman Paralegal, Toronto, ON Rick Goodman was born and raised in Toronto. He attended York University, the University of Toronto and Ryerson Polytechnical School (now Ryerson University) in pursuit of a B. Comm. degree, while he was a student in Chartered Accountancy and working for Wm. Eisenberg & Company, Chartered Accountants (practice subsequently merged into KPMG), from 1972 to 1975. Rick then entered the commercial real estate industry in 1976, where he focused on the sales and leasing of development and re-development sites for commercial retail properties and shopping centres. He spent most of his commercial real estate career with A.E. LePage Commercial Real Estate Services (subsequently Royal LePage Real Estate Services Ltd., and then Cushman & Wakefield Ltd.), which was the largest commercial real estate brokerage firm in Canada at that time. From 1984 to 1987, he was the Vice President of the Retail Properties Division of Fuller Commercial Brokerage Co. (Texas) Inc., which was a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary brokerage and consultancy of A. E. LePage Ltd. During his commercial real estate career, Rick was involved in many arbitrations of commercial disputes that arose in commercial real estate matters. Several of those arbitrations involved commercial lease disputes, where he was qualified and accepted as an expert witness; and where he prepared expert reports and gave expert evidence in those proceedings in the province of Ontario and in the state of Texas. He has a certificate in ADR from the Mediation & Arbitration Institute, through the Faculty of Continuing Education at the University of Toronto (1988) and a certificate in Intensive Mediation Workshop, from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University (2002). Rick opened his paralegal practice as a sole practitioner in downtown Toronto in 2006 and became a licensed paralegal in 2008 when the Law Society of Upper Canada began to license and regulate paralegals in Ontario. His practice, which he conducts with a small staff, encompasses representation in commercial arbitrations, litigation in the Ontario Small Claims Court, and proceedings in various tribunals, including the Licence Appeal Tribunal, the Landlord & Tenant Board and other regulatory boards and tribunals. Rick may be contacted at: FREDRICK GOODMAN PARALEGAL 20 Queen Street West, Suite 3310 Toronto, Ontario M5H 3R3 Telephone: (416) 368-9726 Facsimile: (416) 981 7251 e-mail: rick@goodmanparalegal.com * I will be forever grateful for the profound influence that the late Laura Legge, O. Ont, Q.C. & the late Martin Teplitsky, O. Ont, Q.C. LSM had on my decision to enter the legal profession. Their legacies continue on through their children, John Legge & Brad Teplitsky; both of whom are esteemed colleagues & friends who are always ready to provide sage advice whenever called upon.
IAN LATIMER Ian Latimer is a Deputy Judge with almost 20 years of Small Claims Court experience. Ian obtained his B.Sc. degree from the University of Toronto in 1982 and his Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Toronto in 1985. Ian was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1987. Ian joined the law firm of Speigel Nichols Fox LLP in 1987. In 1994, he became a partner with Speigel Nichols Fox LLP. Ian is a commercial litigator. His practice covers a broad spectrum including construction liens and disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, business disputes, residential and commercial real estate disputes, mortgage enforcement, collections, and professional negligence claims. 000386SI-I
Douglas H. Levitt Douglas H. Levitt is a senior partner with Horlick Levitt Di Lella LLP. He has been practicing law since 1999. His practice focuses on residential and commercial tenancy law, social housing law, condominium law, civil and commercial litigation, human rights litigation, and appellate advocacy. Doug has appeared before a variety of courts and administrative tribunals, including the Landlord and Tenant Board, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Divisional Court, and the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Doug is responsible for numerous precedent-setting decisions before the Superior Court of Justice, the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal for Ontario in which law has been made or clarified in the areas of residential tenancy law and condominium law. He is a regular lecturer for a number of industry and trade organizations, including the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association, the Greater Toronto Apartment Association, the Landlord Self-Help Centre, the Federation of Rental Housing Providers of Ontario and the Canadian Condominium Institute.
Dr. Egya Sangmuah Dr. Egya Sangmuah is the Vice Chair, Toronto North District, of the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB), Social Justice Tribunals of Ontario. He has been a full-time member of the LTB since 2007. He was a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) from 1996 to 2006. Prior to joining the IRB, Dr. Sangmuah was counsel to the Ontario Ministry of Citizenship, Culture and Recreation and a member of the Liquor Licence Board of Ontario. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Toronto, a Master of Laws degree from Osgoode Hall Law School, and a Bachelor of Laws degree from McGill University.
BARRY WEINTRAUB Barry is a partner at Rueters LLP. Barry s practice includes litigation of corporate/commercial, environmental and employment matters. Barry is an experienced and successful trial and appellate counsel. He has made more than 1000 appearances in various types of proceedings before various courts at all stages of litigation and has also appeared before several different administrative tribunals. Barry has acted as counsel in numerous mediations and commercial arbitrations. Barry is Chair of the Civil Litigation Section of the Ontario Bar Association and Treasurer of the National Environment, Energy and Resources Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association. He was previously Chair of the OBA Environmental Law Section and was an adjunct professor of law for several years at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Queen s University Faculty of Law. He has a long record of service to the profession, including teaching in the Law Society of Upper Canada Bar Admission Course and serving on a joint bench/bar/attorney-general committee on the implementation of case management in Ontario. He writes and speaks frequently on a variety of commercial and environmental litigation matters. CORPORATE/COMMERCIAL LITIGATION Barry has experience in various specialized areas of corporate/commercial litigation, including shareholder remedies, contract disputes, banking and investment management, injunctions, regulatory proceedings, professional negligence, estates/trusts and fraud. He has handled large, complex matters involving co-ordination of litigation team efforts and extensive documentary and factual circumstances. Major commercial cases handled by Barry include shareholder disputes involving buy/sell mechanisms, litigation arising out of financial restructurings, and bank guarantee and mortgage actions. His major commercial trials have included Chitel v. Bank of Montreal; Adelaide Capital Corporation v. Cowieson; Royal Trust Corporation v. Royal Bank of Canada; National Bank of Canada v. the Estate of Harold Ballard. Barry has also been counsel on numerous high and low
profile defamation cases, including Finta v. CTV, Pindling v. NBC and Botiuk v. Toronto Free Press, and has experience in estate litigation. ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Barry has experience in all aspects of environmental litigation, including civil litigation of liability for cleanups of historical contamination, appeals of regulatory orders, defence of environmental prosecutions and environmental assessments. He also provides compliance and transactional advice to major corporations. Barry has been recognized by his peers as a Leading Environmental Lawyer in Lexpert Magazine. His clients include large and small businesses, financial institutions, professionals and individuals. He has acted in several leading cases on director and officer liability for environmental issues of bankrupt companies (Gaffney v. MOECC re Huron Concrete in 2015 and Baker v. MOE re Northstar Aerospace in 2013), and was successful defence counsel in a leading environmental prosecution on the scope of the due diligence defence. He previously represented the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and other ministries in civil litigation arising from a major spill into a public waterway. EMPLOYMENT LITIGATION Barry is an experienced workplace investigator and has an extensive practice in employment law matters, including cases involving wrongful dismissal, restrictive covenants and human rights. He acts for both employers and executives in wrongful dismissal matters and has conducted or acted as counsel in numerous workplace investigations on a variety of issues (including fraud and harassment investigations for public companies). Mr. Weintraub has also handled a broad variety of human rights cases, including workplace harassment and discrimination cases involving race, religion, gender and disability. He was counsel for the successful complainant in the historic Tahmourpour v. RCMP case before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and Federal Court of Appeal, and has also acted in several administrative hearings, judicial reviews and constitutional cases. EDUCATION University of Toronto L.L.B., 1987 University of Toronto B.A., 1984 University of Lethbridge 1980-1982