Jeff Hirsch, K.C.

About Jeff

Jeff Hirsch, K.C. is a partner at Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP in Winnipeg, practising primarily in professional regulation, administrative law, commercial litigation, and professional negligence. He advises several self-governing professions as counsel to their discipline and complaints committees and as prosecutor, and has both prosecuted and defended members in Law Society proceedings. Hirsch is a past president of the Law Society of Manitoba (2009-2010) and of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada (2015-2016), and served on the Federation's inaugural Independent Advisory Board for Supreme Court of Canada judicial appointments in 2016. He earned his B.A. in international relations and his LL.B., both from the University of Manitoba, and was called to the Manitoba bar in 1987. He was appointed King's Counsel by the Manitoba government in 2023 and received the Richard J. Scott Award at the 2016 Isaac Pitblado Lectures. Hirsch has taught Remedies and Access to Justice as a sessional lecturer at Robson Hall. His services are provided through Jeffrey B. Hirsch Law Corporation.

Practice areas

Administrative & Regulatory Law Civil Litigation & Dispute Resolution

Education & credentials

Undergraduate

University of Manitoba, B.A., International Relations