Called to the Ontario bar, 1978. Practises civil litigation with Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP. Adjunct Professor (teaching advanced civil procedure since 1985) and senior instructor, Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop (teaching since 1981), Osgoode Hall Law School. Recipient, Osgoode Adjunct Faculty Distinguished Service Award, 2009. Recipient, Award for Excellence in Teaching, The Advocates’ Society, 2019. Recipient, Court of Appeal Medallion for legal and administrative efforts throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Former head of Section for Ontario, Civil Litigation, Bar Admission Course (Ontario), Law Society of Ontario (1993-2004).

Angela Swan taught at the Faculty of Law at University of Toronto from 1965 to 1987 when she went into private practice with Aird & Berlis.  Since then she has been a sessional lecturer at U of T, a Visiting Professor at McGill University, a member of Stikeman Elliott (Montreal).  She is now back at Aird & Berlis where she practices commercial and corporate law.  She is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at McGill.

Stephen Selznick is a partner with Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP; specializing in intellectual property and entertainment law with particular emphasis on structuring, restructuring, finance and litigation.  He is a leading practitioner in entertainment and sports law. Called to the Bar in the Province of Ontario (LSO Arthur Wentworth Roebuck Award).  He also holds an AV Preeminent™ lawyer’s rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Selznick is listed by Who’s Who Legal as one of the world’s leading sports & entertainment practitioners.  He has also been recognized by American Registry as a Most Honoured Professional, has been included in World Trademark Review’s top 1,000 trademark lawyers internationally, and as a “Top Lawyer” by Lawyers Weekly’s “In House Counsel Magazine”.  He also has been named an IP Copyright Star by Managing Intellectual Property. Mr. Selznick is as a Certified Licensing Professional (CLP), a Fellow of the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada, and sits on the International Trademark Association Panel of Trademark Mediators.   Mr. Selznick lectures widely in Canada and abroad on intellectual property and entertainment issues and serves as contributing editor for the Theatre and Motion Picture section and the Author and Publisher section of Canada Law Book’s “O’Brien’s Encyclopedia of Forms”.

Jonathan Rosenthal is a Toronto-based criminal defence attorney. His practice focuses on white collar matters and regulatory offences. He has appeared at every level of court in Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada. He graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School with his LLB in 1987. He is an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he is Director of the Trial Advocacy Program and Co-Director of the Intensive Program in Criminal Law. He is also the course director of the Advanced Certificate in Oral Advocacy and a Team Leader of the Intensive Trial Advocacy Workshop (ITAW), an annual course offered to practising lawyers by Osgoode Professional Development. He has served a similar function at the Intensive Trial Program offered to practising lawyers by the University of Moncton. He is also a Team Leader at Notre Dame Law School’s Intensive Trial Advocacy Program. In addition, he is a lecturer at continuing legal education seminars offered by the Ontario Criminal Lawyers Association, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Advocates Society, Osgoode Professional Development, the Alberta Department of Justice, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Ontario Court of Justice Toronto Regional Judges’ Seminar, the Ontario Court of Justices East Regional Judges’ Seminar and Ontario Centre of Forensic Sciences. Mr. Rosenthal is a former Vice President of the Ontario Criminal Lawyers Association. He is also an elected bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada where he is currently the Chair of Proceeding Authorization Committee. He is also a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.

Vincenzo (Enzo) Rondinelli, LLB (Osgoode), LLM (Osgoode), is a judge of the Ontario Court of Justice.  Before being appointed to the bench in 2017, he was a criminal defence lawyer in Toronto, where he argued appeals regularly before the Court of Appeal for Ontario. Justice Rondinelli joined the adjunct faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2003. As a lawyer, he was awarded the inaugural Ontario Bar Association Award of Excellence in Criminal Justice in 2017.

BA (Western Ontario), LLB (Osgoode), LLM (LSE)

Lawrence Ritchie recently re-joined Osler,Hoskin & Harcourt LLP to chair it’s cross-disciplinary Risk Management and Crisis Response practice group. He also co-chairs the firm’s national Capital Markets Regulatory Enforcement and Broker-Dealer Disputes team. Among other things, he advises public corporations, their directors, officers, and in-house counsel on avoiding, preparing for, managing and responding to extraordinary “crisis” situations. He acts for clients in connection with conducting and responding to internal and regulatory investigations, with defending parties resulting in regulatory proceedings, class actions and related litigation.  He has extensive experience, in particular in identifying and addressing regulatory and other enforcement issues encountered by participants in the Canadian capital markets, providing proactive corporate governance and other risk management advisory services, and represents clients when necessary to address relevant matters with regulators, self-regulatory organizations and in the courts.

In 2007, Mr. Ritchie was appointed Vice-Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission, where he served as a member of the Commission’s Board of Directors, and its Executive Management and Adjudicative Committees, and sat on and chaired adjudicative panels.

From late 2009 until the completion of his term as OSC Vice-Chair in February 2014, Mr. Ritchie was seconded to the Canadian Securities Transition Office (the organization supporting the federal government’s initiative for a Canadian common securities regulator). He served as the CSTO’s Executive Vice President and Senior Policy Advisor and, since his return to Osler, remains Senior Policy Advisor to the CSTO.

Prior to the OSC, Mr. Ritchie was a litigation partner with Osler Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, where his practice included a range of securities, governance and business litigation matters, including regulatory investigations and proceedings.

He holds a BA in Economics and Politics from the University of Western Ontario, an LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School and an LLM from the London School of Economics.

Patricia is a senior partner of Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP where she practices corporate and securities law, with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. She is recognized as one of Canada’s leading experts on M&A, shareholder activism and cross-border corporate finance. Patricia serves on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Securities Commission, is a past member of the Ontario Securities Commission’s CEO Advisory Council, past Chair of the Securities Advisory Committee to the Ontario Securities Commission, a former legal advisor to the Chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission and a past Chair of the Securities Law Subcommittee of the Business Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association – Ontario. She has also served on an advisory committee to the Senate Banking Committee on the subject of a federal securities commission.

BA (York), LL.B (Windsor), LL.M (Osgoode), PhD (Osgoode) of the Ontario Court of Justice, appointed November, 1996, and formerly Crown Counsel where he practised as a certified specialist in criminal law.

BA (York), LLB (Osgoode, Tax Law Program), of the Bar of OntarioMr. Kutyan is a tax litigator with KPMG Law LLP. He specializes in litigating tax cases and advising on tax dispute matters. Mr. Kutyan has successfully argued numerous trials, and obtained extensive court experience while serving as Crown counsel in the Tax Law Services Section of the Department of Justice.   Following his tenure at the Department of Justice and prior to joining KPMG Law LLP, Mr. Kutyan was a tax litigation associate at a leading national Canadian law firm. At KPMG Law LLP, Justin has a broad tax litigation practice, representing both corporate taxpayers and high net-worth individuals. His expertise in resolving tax disputes extends across a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, property development and management, service and entertainment. In addition to representing clients at various stages in the litigation process, Justin regularly advises on all aspects of tax controversy management.Mr. Kutyan is also an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. 

Brent Kettles is Crown Counsel with Ontario’s Crown Law Office – Criminal where he conducts criminal appeals on behalf of the Crown. Prior to his current role, Brent served as an Assistant Crown Attorney prosecuting criminal trials and as a civil litigator for the Ontario government where his practice focused on Crown liability, administrative law, and public law issues involving police and other justice-sector participants. Brent has been an adjunct professor of Statutory Interpretation at Osgoode Hall Law School since 2014.