“No matter who our clients are, everyone deserves the best representation possible.”

Lerners is a leading full-service firm in Ontario, with offices with offices in London, Toronto, Strathroy, and Waterloo Region. Ours is a history of nearly 100 years of successful client service and representation. Today we are more than 130 exceptionally skilled lawyers with abundant experience and a singular dedication to delivering results. We have earned the reputation of being experienced, knowledgeable and diligent counsel, and our lawyers work together to provide highly effective, practical legal advice and services in an efficient manner to clients across the province.

We are one of Ontario’s largest law firms, with offices in London, Toronto, Strathroy, Waterloo Region, and Durham Region. Peers, colleagues, and clients have recognized Lerners for its excellent work, reputation, and integrity.

Other lawyers regularly seek our counsel in specialized areas of expertise where the firm excels because they know they can trust us to be thoroughly professional and respectful of their client relationships. Other firms will also retain Lerners’ lawyers to argue their cases at both the trial and appellate levels.

We offer our clients a unique combination of corporate and commercial legal services to help support our clients’ business and organizational needs, as well as personal legal services to address any individual issues they may face.

Corporate/Commercial Legal Services

We provide both transactional and dispute resolution advice and services in the following practice areas:

  • Business Law
  • Commercial Litigation and Arbitration, including class actions and appeals
  • Commercial Real Estate
  • Employment Law and Workplace Investigations
  • Health Law
  • Land Development & Municipal Law
  • Professional Regulation
  • Privacy, Data, and Information Security
  • Specialty Risk and Insurance

Personal Legal Services

Our personal legal services focus on the following key areas:

  • Personal Injury
  • Family Law
  • Wills and Estates

Industry Expertise

We act for clients in a wide variety of industries in the public and private sectors, including:

  • Agribusiness
  • Automotive
  • Aviation
  • Banking and Financial Services
  • Cooperative Corporations
  • Education
  • Property Development
  • Healthcare
  • Construction and Infrastructure
  • Insurance
  • Charitable/not-for-profit organizations
  • Professional Corporations
  • Telecommunications
  • Technology
  • Utilities
  • Consumer products
  • Municipalities and their related public entities
  • Government

We seek first to ensure we understand our clients’ positions, their appetite for risk, and what concerns them most. Only once we have truly listened to them, will we start moving their matter forward. Our goal is to deliver a successful result to our clients in whatever way they define success.

The firm’s trial lawyers have argued appeals in the Divisional Court, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Clients represented by Lerners have been awarded some of the most significant personal injury judgments in Canada.

For more information, or to contact one of our lawyers, visit our website.

Management & Demographics
Management & Personnel
Managing Partner, Toronto office
Managing Partner, London office

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  • Administrative and Public Law
  • Alternative Dispute Resolution
  • Appellate Practice
  • Banking and Finance Law
  • Bet-the-Company Litigation
  • Class Action Litigation
  • Commercial Leasing Law
  • Construction Law
  • Corporate and Commercial Litigation
  • Corporate Governance Practice
  • Corporate Law
  • Defamation and Media Law
  • Director and Officer Liability Practice
  • Expropriation Law
  • Family Law
  • Family Law Mediation
  • Health Care Law
  • Information Technology Law
  • Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law
  • Insurance Law
  • Intellectual Property Law
  • International Arbitration
  • Labour and Employment Law
  • Legal Malpractice Law
  • Municipal Law
  • Personal Injury Litigation
  • Privacy and Data Security Law
  • Product Liability Law
  • Real Estate Law
  • Securities Law
  • Technology Law
  • Trusts and Estates

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Insurance for Small Businesses: Prudent Management of Risk


Whether it be the result of a devastating fire loss, a significant errors and omissions claim, or as a victim of fraudulent activity by a trusted employee, insurance coverage is hugely important.

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Change of Venue: A Holistic Approach


"The place of trial" can be used as an effective tool in gaining advantage in the courtroom.

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Are You Awake?


"Whenever asking someone to sign a document you expect to be legally binding, make sure you ask “Are you awake?”"

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