AREAS OF PRACTICE

I practice primarily in the areas of personal injury and impaired driving law. About 70 per cent of my practice is composed of clients who have been injured in motor vehicle (and other) accidents and about 30 per cent of my practice is acting for impaired drivers. I do other criminal law but my main focus is impaired driving law. I have personally performed over 700 trials in these combined areas of practice.

A. IMPAIRED DRIVING LAW:

This is a unique subset of the criminal law and it is a very specialized area of law. As such it is my experience that not all “criminal lawyers” are versed in this unique area of law. As a specialized area of law it is an area of law where lawyers must, on almost a DAILY basis, keep up with the decisions of the court that can affect any potential client’s case.

Impaired driving cases are extremely technical and complex. They are not cases where the lawyer simply presents the case. They are cases that can largely be dealt with by skillful negotiation with the Crown and without going to trial. When these cases proceed to trial they are won and lost on most occasions owing to both the exploitation of legal technicalities and the careful cross examination of the Crown witnesses. As such the lawyer that you choose to present your case will make a difference.

B. PERSONAL INJURY

When you hire our firm to represent you in an injury claim almost 100% of the time we will act for you on a contingency fee basis. What that means is that we do not get paid unless and until you get paid by the insurance company or offending party. Our legal fees are paid as a percentage of the award/settlement. If you receive an award then the lawyer will get paid from the settlement award not from you. Therefore there is little risk in terms of legal fees. Though the actual percentage related to our fees vary from case to case I think that you will find our standard contingency fee agreement both reasonable and easy to understand.