Michael Kestenberg, Alan Siegal and Lorne Lipkus have practiced law together throughout their respective professional careers commencing in the 1970′s. The present partnership has been practicing together since 1988. The firm enjoys a reputation far in excess of its size for providing high quality, result driven cost-effective legal services, particularly in the areas of banking law, negligence, civil litigation, and Intellectual Property litigation including all aspects of anti-counterfeiting enforcement and brand protection and is pleased to number among its clients many of Canada’s foremost financial and corporate institutions. The firm is also honoured to be on the approved counsel list for the Lawyers Professional Indemnity Company (LPIC) and has an excellent reputation in defending solicitors in negligent actions. The firm actively and regularly conducts a full complement of anti-counterfeiting enforcement measures designed to protect the trade-marks and copyrights of numerous rightsholders. Enforcement measures have been successfully employed in respect to many famous marks, logos characters, names and designs. In addition to the litigation component of the practice, Alan Siegal practices in the area of real estate and corporate commercial law, with special emphasis on servicing the needs of financial institutions, particularly in the financing and security area.
