Experience

CPATA - CABAMC
• Canada
• Public Safety
• 1 - 100 Employee
• CEO and Registrar

  • Jan 2023 - Present

LAWPRO
• Canada
• Insurance
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Director of PracticePRO

  • Aug 2019 - Dec 2022


Law Society of Ontario

• Canada
• Law Practice
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Strategic Policy Counsel

  • Dec 2017 - Jul 2019

• Senior Counsel, Professional Regulation

  • Apr 2017 - Nov 2017

• Policy Counsel

  • Aug 2015 - Mar 2017

  Provided policy counsel with respect to access to justice, alternative business structures, legislative developments / government affairs, and policy development processes.

• Counsel, Office of the Director, Policy and Tribunals

  • Nov 2011 - Jul 2015

  Provided counsel with respect to legislative developments, policy and governance matters, and a range of policy issues relating to the regulation of the legal professions, including articling and alternative business structures. For part of this time I was also seconded on a part time basis to serve as Policy Counsel at the Federation of Law Societies of Canada.



CLAIHR - Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights

• Legal Services

• President

  • Jul 2013 - Jan 2018

  - Led the Board of Directors in policy development and operations - Oversaw education and advocacy initiatives to promote international human rights in connection to Canada - Led the Board of Directors in policy development and operations - Oversaw education and advocacy initiatives to promote international human rights in connection to Canada



O'Donnell Robertson Sanfilippo Barristers & Solicitors

• Associate

  • Sep 2010 - Nov 2011

  Litigation practice including lawyer's professional liability defence and insurance defence. Litigation practice including lawyer's professional liability defence and insurance defence.



Wardle Daley Bernstein LLP

• Associate

  • Nov 2007 - Jul 2010

  Broad civil litigation practice including lawyer's professional liability defence, civil and commercial litigation Co-counsel to a community group at a public inquiry Broad civil litigation practice including lawyer's professional liability defence, civil and commercial litigation Co-counsel to a community group at a public inquiry



Physicians for Human Rights

• United States
• Non-profit Organization Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Legal Fellow

  • Sep 2006 - Jun 2007

  Assisted Campaign Against Torture group with legal research Assisted in the writing of "Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel" Assisted Campaign Against Torture group with legal research Assisted in the writing of "Broken Laws, Broken Lives: Medical Evidence of Torture by US Personnel"



Federal Court | Cour fédérale

• Canada
• Administration of Justice
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Judicial Law Clerk

  • Sep 2005 - Aug 2006

  - Researched questions of law as assigned by Judges of the Court - Prepared memoranda on cases before the Court addressing immigration, constitutional, human rights, tax, Aboriginal, labour and employment, administrative and intellectual property law - Researched questions of law as assigned by Judges of the Court - Prepared memoranda on cases before the Court addressing immigration, constitutional, human rights, tax, Aboriginal, labour and employment, administrative and intellectual property law