Brooke MacKenzie advises and represents clients in the areas of legal ethics, professional regulation and liability, and civil appeals and judicial reviews. She is currently recognized in Best Lawyers™ in Canada in the areas of administrative and public law.

Brooke regularly assists lawyers and health professionals with regulatory complaints, investigations, and disciplinary proceedings, as well as litigation alleging conflicts of interest or professional negligence. She also has significant appeal experience, having successfully represented clients before the Supreme Court of Canada, Court of Appeal for Ontario, Federal Court of Appeal, Divisional Court, and numerous administrative appeal tribunals.

In addition to her advocacy practice, Brooke frequently provides legal opinions and practical advice to law firms and lawyers on professional obligations, including duties to clients when lawyers transfer firms; confidentiality and privilege issues; and regulations regarding law practice management and ownership.

Brooke’s writing on professional responsibility, tort law, and civil procedure is widely published, including in the Supreme Court Law Review, Osgoode Hall Law Journal, and Canadian Bar Review. She is also a regular legal ethics columnist at Slaw.ca.

MES (York), JD (Osgoode), of the Bars of Ontario, Nunavut, and Northwest Territories 

Lorraine Land is a partner at Olthuis Kleer Townshend (OKT), and practices Aboriginal rights and environmental law. She regularly advises Aboriginal clients and appears before Courts and tribunals on Aboriginal land rights and claims, Aboriginal consultation issues, impacts and benefits agreements, energy project reviews, and environmental matters.

Ms. Land has a Masters of Environmental Studies (with a concentration on Aboriginal co-management regimes), and a Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution. Before she was a lawyer, she worked for various national church and Aboriginal organizations on Aboriginal rights and environmental issues. Prior to re-joining OKT in 2009, Ms. Land was Legal Counsel and the Acting Director of Legal Services for the Government of Nunavut, providing legal advice on a wide range of matters to the territorial government, and (as Acting Director) overseeing the provision of civil legal services in the territory.

In 2009, Ms. Land received a Gold Key Alumni Award from Osgoode Hall Law School, for exceptional contributions to the legal profession and society, and accomplishment in the field of law. She is a member of the Ontario, Northwest Territories and Nunavut bars, and has served on the executive of various bar association chapters.

Ms. Land is adjunct faculty at Osgoode Hall Law School and in the Osgoode Professional Development Program, teaching courses related to Indigenous peoples and Canadian law. She currently serves on the Board of the Osgoode Hall Law School Alumni Association.

She is the co-editor of the 5^th edition of the widely-used Aboriginal Law Handbook. She is recognized as a leading expert in the field of Aboriginal Law by the Lexpert Directory and Best Lawyers in Canada.

Aubrey Kauffman’s practice is focused on advocacy matters related to domestic and cross-border bankruptcy, insolvency and restructuring proceedings.

Aubrey is the 2019 recipient of the Ontario Bar Association Murray Klein Award for Excellence in Insolvency Law. In addition, in 2019, he was named a Fellow of the prestigious Insolvency Institute of Canada after completing his 2nd term as a director.

A highly seasoned litigator and advisor, Aubrey has acted in many high-profile insolvency proceedings, advising a variety of stakeholders including court officers, debtors, directors and officers, creditors at all levels of the capital structure and government agencies.

Aubrey is also an Adjunct Professor of Law at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he teaches the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Course. Aubrey was awarded the Osgoode Hall Law School Adjunct Faculty Teaching Award in recognition of teaching excellence in 2023.

A certified specialist in Bankruptcy and Insolvency and Civil Litigation by the Law Society of Upper Canada, Aubrey has been recognized by Chambers Canada, the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory and Who’s Who Legal.

Aubrey received his BCL and LLB from McGill and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1979.

Owen Goddard is is Crown Counsel at the Crown Law Office – Criminal in Toronto, where he conducts appeals before the Ontario Court of Appeal He was previously a partner at Goddard & Shanmuganathan LLP, a litigation boutique that practiced criminal and regulatory law. He has an undergraduate and Masters degree in Criminology. After graduating from law school, he clerked for the Honourable Justice Moldaver at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Gordon Cudjoe is a lawyer manager at Legal Aid Ontario (LAO). He joined LAO in 2015.

Gordon joined the duty counsel (criminal) office in Toronto in 2001 (Old City Hall).

In March 2002, Gordon left the duty counsel office to work at the law office of Michael Tulloch & Associates.  In 2003, Gordon started his own law  firm. He represented clients on 4 homicides and multiple jury trials. Gordon has been involved in all manner of cases from minor thefts to homicides.  Gordon had an avid interest assisting the homeless and mentally ill in the court system.  Gordon had quite a few clients who lived on the street and are struggling with schizophrenia, alcoholism and drug addictions. Gordon argued a multitude of Charter cases in the past and he always kept an eye out for racial profiling in these matters.

In 2020, Gordon became a co-adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School. The seminar course is focused on Anti-Black racism and its percolation into the criminal justice system.

Justice Faisal Mirza serves at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.  Central West Region.

Prior to being appointed to the judiciary, he practiced trial and appellate litigation for twenty years in the areas of criminal, constitutional and regulatory law.  He frequently argued leading cases at the Ontario Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of Canada.

He also served as a member of the National Security Intelligence Review Agency (NSIRA) which provides the government of Canada with independent accountability of national security and intelligence activities.

He is an Adjunct Professor at both the University of Toronto, Faculty of Law co-teaching Sentencing and at Osgoode Hall co-teaching Advanced Criminal Law.  He is also an Instructor in National Security and the Law at the University of Toronto Political Science Department.

He is the author of Criminal Jury Charge Practice and several articles about criminal procedure and sentencing.

He is a co-founder of the Sentencing and Parole Project which addresses anti-Black racism and systemic discrimination in the criminal justice system.

He was a Director of The Advocates’ Society which partnered with the Court of Appeal to establish the Advocacy Skills Training Series for members of diversity associations.

He served as Past President of the Canadian Muslim Lawyers Association and co-founded the Muslim Legal Support Centre.  He is contributor to various education initiatives with the South Asian Bar Association, Criminal Lawyers Association, and Lincoln Alexander School of Law.

He was granted the Ontario Bar Association Award in Criminal Law, consistently recognized by Best Lawyers magazine as one of Canada’s leading appellate lawyers and was granted the Diversity Award by the South Asian Bar Association.

He is a graduate of UofT (B.A., and M.A.) and Osgoode Hall (LL.B.).   Prior to being called, he articled at Greenspan Humphrey Lavine and worked for the Hon. Fred Kaufman (Que C.A.) and Mark Sandler on a government commissioned review.

Maura R. Grossman, JD, PhD, is a Research Professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, an Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School of York University, and an affiliate faculty member at the Vector Institute of Artificial Intelligence, all in Ontario, Canada. Previously, she was an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University Law School, Georgetown University Law Center, Pace Law School, and Rutgers School of Law – Newark.

Professor Grossman is also Principal at Maura Grossman Law, an eDiscovery law and consulting firm in Buffalo, New York, USA. Prior to opening her own firm, she served as Of Counsel at the New York law firm of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, where she pioneered the use of technology-assisted review (TAR) for eDiscovery.

Professor Grossman has been widely recognized for her scholarly work evaluating the application of TAR in the fields of law, government archives, and healthcare. Her studies have frequently been cited in the case law and literature, in North America and abroad. More recently, her scholarship has focused on responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) and AI as evidence. Professor Grossman is also well known for her appointments as a special master and/or as an expert in many high-profile US federal and state court cases.

In addition to her JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif, from the Georgetown University Law Center (1990), she also holds an MA (1982) and PhD (1984) in Psychology from the Derner Institute of Adelphi University. Prior to practicing law, Professor Grossman was a clinical psychologist and hospital administrator in New York City. Professor Grossman received her AB, magna cum laude, honors in psychology, from Brown University (1980).

Vanessa Grant is Co-Head of Private Equity (Canada) and practises business law in the Toronto office of Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, commercial contracting, and corporate governance for public and private corporations, including private equity and venture capital. She also provides ongoing general corporate and commercial legal advice to a number of clients.

She has worked with several national and international clients in various industries, with a particular focus on technology companies and life sciences companies.