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Foglers Advantage.
77 King Street West
Suite 3000, P.O. Box 95
TD Centre North Tower
Toronto, ON M5K 1G8
2024 Fogler, Rubinoff LLP
Milton Davis was called to the bar in 1978. Since that time he has practiced in the area of commercial litigation specializing in banking and real estate litigation, corporate and shareholder disputes, mortgage remedies and professional negligence claims.
Milton was certified as a specialist in civil litigation in 1985. He has been involved as counsel in over 200 reported decisions, at all levels including the Supreme Court of Canada. He has acted as counsel in an extensive number of leading cases involving professional negligence by lawyers and other professionals.
Milton has also acted in many significant real estate and mortgage cases at both the trial and appellate level. In March 2012, he argued the first real estate case heard by the Supreme Court of Canada in 15 years. Two of the foremost appeals in Canada involving shareholders rights were successfully argued by Milton.
In addition to his courtroom experience, he has acted to recover millions of dollars for plaintiffs in lawyer malpractice cases. He has successfully prosecuted to trial or settlement, more than forty of these cases. Amongst those cases are precedent setting decisions that have defined the standard of care for lawyers practicing in various fields. He has also successfully defended lawyers and other professionals in malpractice claims.
For over thirty years, Milton has represented some of the largest financial institutions in Canada. Accordingly, he continues to be on the recommended list of counsel for one of Canada’s largest banks.
Since his call to the bar in 1978, Milton has been a frequent lecturer and instructor at the Law Society of Ontario and at the Osgoode Hall Law School, Trial Advocacy Program. He was a lecturer in civil procedure and trial advocacy for the Bar Admission Course from 1985 to 1990. He has lectured and written extensively in the areas of real estate, mortgage remedies, injunctions, civil procedure, evidence, and trial advocacy. He was a lecturer at the Canadian Bar Association Annual Institute in 1985, 1999 and 2000 and author of the 2014 and 2022 editions of Halsbury’s Laws of Canada – Debtor and Creditor.
Ron Davis offers over 35 years of unique litigation experience, combining high-level analytical skills with advanced written advocacy abilities.
Working creatively and collaboratively with clients and Foglers colleagues, Ron helps develop strategies that optimize outcomes and minimize costs for the client.
Ron has not only worked with some of the country’s top litigators to supercharge clients’ cases before all levels of Court, up to the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also enjoyed multiple careers.
On the law side, Ron – who is multilingual – is a cum laude graduate of the highly-regarded Common Law en français program at the University of Ottawa. He taught at the Law Society of Ontario’s Bar Admission Course for a decade. He has edited and written over 50 articles and books on varied topics: social media, lawyers and technology, mortgage litigation, business valuation, linguistics, and jazz piano.
Beyond law, Ron holds a Ph.D. in French linguistics from the University of Toronto. He was an Assistant Professor there for five years.
Finally, Ron has an international career as an acclaimed jazz pianist and recording artist (13 recordings to date). Foglers is proud of Ron’s 2020 nomination for a JUNO award.
These diverse achievements give Ron a special edge or, as Ron likes to call them “lawyer superpowers”, in all areas of litigation.
In his spare time, Ron loves to follow the technology world (he’s definitely Windows, not Mac), read great literature, and argue about movies. And as an avid Iyengar yoga practitioner, Ron is always ready to do backbends and headstands with you.
Eugene has over 20 years of patent, industrial design, trademark and copyright prosecution, litigation and licensing experience in wide range of industries.
He has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, and is registered to practice as a patent and trademark agent before the Canadian Intellectual Property Office, the Canadian PCT Office and the United States Patent and Trademark Office. As well, Eugene advises on patent infringement and validity matters, conducts patent due diligence for corporate transactions and carries out patent portfolio assessments.
Eugene is Past Co-Chair of the Patent & Industrial Design Committee of the Canadian Bar Association.
Carol’s practice is focused in the area of condominium law and condominium related litigation.
Carol regularly advises Board of Directors on the requirements of the Condominium Act, 1998, including easements and licensing issues, reserve fund and budgeting matters, common expense collection, meeting requirements and procedure, as well as enforcement of the Declaration, By-laws and Rules.
As part of her litigation practice, Carol has appeared before the Superior Court of Justice, Court of Appeal, the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the Ontario Municipal Board, as well as the Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal. She has been involved in a number of highly publicized legal actions on behalf of condominium corporations and co-operatives, including the defence of a building evacuation order and the appointment of an inspector and administrator under the Condominium Act, 1998.
She has considerable experience with construction deficiency claims, condominium conversions, construction liens, human rights, as well as employment claims, and has been successful in negotiating favourable settlements on behalf of her clients.
Michael is an experienced civil litigator. His practice has a particular focus on broker liability litigation and employment law matters.
Michael has also acted as lead counsel on matters before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada. As well he has appeared on administrative matters involving the Mutual Fund Dealers Association, the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, The Financial Services Commission of Ontario, the Chartered Professional Accountants Ontario and the Ontario Securities Commission.
He has acted and advised on employment matters involving Employment Standards, Human Rights and wrongful dismissal claims (both employee and management side). As well, in the regulatory area, he has acted on behalf of both dealers and individual registrants. Michael has acted on matters before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
He has also acted in a variety of areas including securities, regulatory enforcement and professional negligence.
Michael represents registrants in proceedings before provincial securities commissions, self-regulatory organizations and the courts. He has advised corporations and individuals involved in proceedings before provincial securities commissions and in general employment matters.
Michael has successfully resolved numerous litigation claims through trial and appeal and Michael has successfully resolved many more claims, both litigation and regulatory, through mediation and negotiation.
Albert is certified by the LSO as a Specialist in Environmental Law. He provides clients with legal and strategic advice on environmental and renewable energy law matters.
He has a Masters in Environmental Studies and joined Foglers in 2010 after 10 years with the Legal Services Branch of Ontario’s Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (“MOECC”). He assists clients with renewable energy project issues and has represented approval holders in numerous renewable energy approval (REA) hearings, including Ontario’s first (Erickson v. Ontario (Ministry ofthe Environment) [2011] OERTDNo. 29; 61 CELR (3d) 1). He also assists clients with environmental and related aspects of transactions and various types of agreements, due diligence, securing necessary regulatory approvals, defences to environmental prosecutions, appeals of environmental orders and approvals, civil litigation involving environmental and related issues, contaminated lands and brownfields redevelopment. He appears before Ontario’s Environmental Review Tribunal (“ERT”), the Ontario Energy Board, Ontario Municipal Board, the Fire Safety Commission, and all levels of court including Provincial Offences Court.
Albert also represents clients in defence of violations of Ontario’s Occupational Health and Safety Act and helps clients navigate any Ministry of Labour investigations and prosecutions.
Albert is recognized by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers™ in Canada and as a repeatedly recommended lawyer in the Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory in the area of Environmental Law.
Joel’s practice is devoted to the representation of developers and landowners in all aspects of municipal, regulatory, and environmental issues concerning the development, redevelopment and use of land.
Joel also handles complex expropriation and public procurement matters for the private sector. Joel regularly appears before the Ontario Land Tribunal and the Ontario Courts, including the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal.
Joel works extensively in the areas of Land Use Planning and Development, Expropriation, Public, Administrative and Municipal Law and Commercial Litigation.
Bonnie is the Director of Legal Research and Coordinator of the firm’s Continuing Professional Development Program.
Her practice involves legal research in connection with civil proceedings before the Ontario Courts, the Supreme Court of Canada and administrative tribunals.
Bonnie is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto teaching Advanced Legal Research, Analysis and Writing and the 1st Year Program in Legal Research and Writing.
Bonnie has chaired and spoken at many conferences on legal research and lectured at the Bar Admission Course.
Michael has extensive experience in all aspects of health law.
He has significant expertise in the representation of physicians, dentists, nurses and other health care practitioners in regulatory matters including complaints, discipline, quality assurance, fitness to practice and registration issues. He has also represented numerous physicians in hospital privilege disputes as well as in medical malpractice actions. He also advises corporations and institutions with respect to health law issues. Michael is the co-author of The Law of Acute Care Medicine published by Thomson Reuters which addresses the complexities that arise when medicine, law, and ethics intersect in the treatment and caring for acutely ill patients.
Michael is also an experienced medical malpractice litigator. Having defended physicians in medical malpractice cases for more than 10 years and having represented plaintiffs for 15 years, he is well placed to advocate on behalf of parties involved in malpractice disputes.
In addition to his health law practice, Michael also handles civil litigation matters including personal injury, high tech litigation, general commercial litigation, product liability, wrongful dismissal and human rights.
Michael has served as lead counsel in matters before all levels of court in Ontario, the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, and various tribunals including the Discipline Committee of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Royal College of Dental Surgeons of Ontario, College of Chiropodists, College of Audiologists and Speech Language Therapists, as well as the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, Health Services Appeal and Review Board, Medical Advisory Committees and the Board of Governors of various hospitals. He has also represented numerous parties at Coroners Inquests.
Michael has chaired and spoken at numerous continuing education programs for lawyers as well as health care practitioners on issues relating to health law and medical malpractice.
Lawrence advises a wide variety of business clients, ranging from owner-operated businesses to large corporations. Lawrence acts for clients in all aspects of the business life cycle, including general corporate and commercial matters, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions and business succession planning.
Over the years Lawrence has acted for both lenders and borrowers on numerous secured financing transactions, including substantial multi-lender transactions.
Lawrence also advises clients with respect to residential and commercial real estate and leasing matters. He was interviewed and quoted on the topic of estate freezes in an article in Morningstar entitled “How Retiring Business Owners Can Zap the Taxman” and has spoken on various topics at the North York Chartered Accountants Association, the Etobicoke Chartered Accountants Association and the Canadian Bar Association Annual Institute.
Lawrence coaches his two sons in a local rec hockey league, plays hockey himself and skis and cycles when he can find the time.
