Barry Weintraub

Barry is a founding partner of Weintraub Huang LLP. Barry's practice includes litigation of civil & corporate/commercial, environmental and employment matters.

Barry is an experienced and successful trial and appellate counsel. He has made more than 1500 appearances in various types of proceedings before various courts at all stages of litigation and has also appeared before several different administrative tribunals. Barry has acted as counsel in numerous mediations and commercial arbitrations.

Barry is Past-Chair of the Civil Litigation Section and Environmental Law Section of the Ontario Bar Association and the National Environment, Energy and Resources Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association. He was previously an adjunct professor of law teaching an advanced Civil Litigation course for many years at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Queen's University Faculty of Law. He writes and speaks frequently on a variety of commercial, environmental and employment litigation issues.

Barry is recognized as a leading Canadian lawyer in various ranking publications including Benchmark Canada, Best Lawyers in Canada and Lexpert magazine

Barry has experience in various specialized areas of civil & corporate/commercial litigation, including corporate transaction disputes, shareholder remedies, contract claims, banking and investment management, injunctions, regulatory proceedings, construction matters, professional negligence, estates/trusts, defamation, real estate litigation and fraud. He has handled large, complex matters involving co-ordination of litigation team efforts and extensive documentary and factual circumstances.

Barry has experience in all aspects of environmental litigation, including civil litigation of liability for cleanups of historical contamination, appeals of regulatory orders and defence of environmental prosecutions. His clients include large and small corporations, insurance companies, financial institutions, professionals and individuals. He has acted in many leading environmental law cases.

Barry is an experienced workplace investigator in fraud, discrimination and harassment cases and has an extensive practice in employment law matters, including cases involving wrongful dismissal, restrictive covenants and human rights. He was counsel for the successful complainant in the historic Tahmourpour v. RCMP case before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal and Federal Court of Appeal, and has also acted in several administrative hearings, judicial reviews and constitutional cases.