Mr. Weisberg is a graduate of the Queen’s University Faculty of Law and has been a criminal lawyer for over twenty years.
The Law Society of Upper Canada recognized Mr. Weisberg’s expertise in criminal law when they deemed him a Specialist in Criminal Law in 2011. Mr. Weisberg is also a member of the Complex Case Rate Panel, a government initiative to keep leading counsel involved in complicated murder cases. He is recognized by Best Lawyers for Criminal Defence.
During his career, Mr. Weisberg has successfully defended allegations of homicide, sexual assault, domestic assault, drinking and driving, conspiracies, and fraud charges. Mr. Weisberg also regularly conducts appeals having argued cases in the Court of Appeal for Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada.
Mr. Weisberg has served four terms on the Criminal Lawyers’ Association Board. He is currently serving on the executive as a Vice President for the organization.
Partner with Aird & Berlis LLP in Toronto.
Certified Specialist by the Law Society of Ontario in Municipal Law: Local Government & Land Use Planning and Development.
Co-Author of the Annotated Municipal Act, 2nd Ed., Ontario Municipal Act & Commentary, the Annotated Ontario Building Code Act, A Comprehensive Guide to the City of Toronto Act. and Annotated Land Development Agreements.
Editor-in-Chief of the Municipal & Planning Law Reports, the Real Property Reports and the Digest of Municipal & Planning Law.
Jodi practices labour, public and administrative law at Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP in Toronto. Her practice involves regular appearances before a variety of administrative decision makers in the areas of human rights, labour relations and workers compensation. She also regularly assists clients with judicial review applications and appeals. Before law school Jodi completed both a BA and MA in Cultural Anthropology.
Michael Lacy is a criminal appellate and trial lawyer. He practices throughout Canada and has appeared as counsel at the Supreme Court of Canada and provincial appellate courts throughout Canada.
Matthew Gardner is a Partner at Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP and is a Certified Specialist in Environmental Law by the Law Society of Ontario. Matthew practices environmental law and environmental litigation. He provides advice and solutions about environmental due diligence and compliance to a wide range of clients including industrial corporations, the construction and land development sectors and municipalities. Matthew also provides advice and solutions about contaminated land issues, environmental risk management, environmental transactional due diligence and regulatory compliance. Matthew regularly appears before the Courts and administrative tribunals. He also assists clients under inspection or investigation by federal, provincial and municipal environmental regulators, and defends clients against environmental regulatory prosecutions.
Dean Embry has been a criminal defence lawyer since his call to the bar in 2004 and is a partner at Embry Dann LLP. Dean conducts a primarily trial practice which includes the representation of clients on a wide variety of matters including homicide, serious personal injury offences and drug offences. A substantial portion of Dean’s practice involves the representation of accused dealing with mental health issues and he appears regularly before the Ontario Review Board. Dean has lectured at the University of Toronto faculties of Law and Criminology and at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Called to the Ontario Bar in 1982, for 40 years Mr. McElcheran has been a leading insolvency lawyer experienced in all areas of insolvency practice, both litigious and transactional. He was certified by The Law Society of Ontario as a specialist in bankruptcy and insolvency law in 1997. Throughout his career, Mr. McElcheran has used creativity, commercial expertise and strong advocacy skills to advance the interests of debtors, creditors and other stakeholders with positions of critical importance in large restructuring and insolvency cases. A partial list of his engagements is available on his website mcelcheranadr.com.
In 2014, after 25 years leading the insolvency practices of two of Canada’s leading commercial law firms, Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP and McCarthy Tetrault LLP, Mr. McElcheran opened his own office to offer a variety of services to businesses affected by operational or financial distress.
Mr. McElcheran is the author of Commercial Insolvency of Canada published by NexisLexis Butterworths, now in its 4th edition (2020). He is a contributor to Halsbury’s Laws of Canada, Bankruptcy and Insolvency (2021) and the author of many published articles.
Since 2015, Mr. McElcheran has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Queen’s University Law School in Kingston Ontario teaching the Commercial Insolvency Course.
Mr. McElcheran is a trained mediator, receiving the designation of MCIarb in 2014.
Sara Mainville has been a member of the Ontario bar since 2005 and she is a member of the BC bar (2022) with specific matter approvals to practice in Nunavut and Quebec. Sara has a Management/Public Administration degree (Lethbridge) and a Bachelor of Laws from Queen’s University. She has a LLM from the University of Toronto and an Advanced Negotiations certificate from Harvard University, and a Certificate in Entertainment Law (Osgoode PD).
In 2014, Sara was elected as Chief of Couchiching First Nation after the sudden death of her friend and mentor, Chief Chuck McPherson. Sara uses this experience as a former Chief to help leadership work past difficult issues, within Indigenous forms of dispute resolution, and walk the community through processes to encourage discourse and grassroots solutions to long-held problems.
Sara has completed Advanced Negotiations training at Harvard University and dispute resolution, legislative drafting, and mediation training at professional institutes in order to advance her clients’ long held goals for self-determination and truer treaty partnerships in Canada.
Sara is generally seen as a subject-matter expert about Crown-Indigenous relations, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Treaty 3, and Anishinaabe Inakonigewin. However, Sara sees herself as a life-long learner willing to meet in community, read voraciously, and listen intently to better understand Indigenous knowledge systems across Canada.
With strong experience in the crossroads of emerging technology and legal practice, Samantha Delaney is a Senior Innovation Advisor at Norton Rose Fulbright in Toronto. Samantha leverages a deep understanding of technological advancements to drive strategic innovation within the legal sector. At Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, she advanced from Coordinator of Professional Development to Project Manager of Legal Innovation & Knowledge Management, where she focused on seamlessly integrating new technologies into legal workflows and boosting organizational efficiency. Samantha’s work underscores her commitment to advancing the future of legal practice through technology-driven solutions.
Jordana Bergman is the founder and clinic director at Eden Wellness, a bespoke virtual counselling clinic that supports the mental health and wellness needs of lawyers and other busy career professionals who experience stress/burnout, anxiety, depression, trauma, addiction, relationship challenges, and interpersonal difficulties. She is a Registered Psychotherapist with a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology, as well as an Internal Family Systems (IFS) trained therapist. Jordana is also a former lawyer who previously practiced in the litigation department at a Bay Street law firm before transitioning out of private practice and into legal career counselling at Osgoode Hall Law School.
Jordana has advanced training in several humanistic, experiential, cognitive and behavioural therapeutic modalities and customizes treatment in a holistic, integrative approach. Through talk therapy and experiential intervention, Jordana focuses on the mind-body connection and deepening self-awareness to create healthy patterns, build strong relationships to self and others, and foster change in a warm, empathic, non-judgment environment. In addition to providing psychotherapy, Jordana offers Wellness Seminars that are psychoeducational and experiential in nature on a variety of topics including burnout and stress management, imposter syndrome, cultivating self-compassion, supporting anxiety, amongst others.