Lorway MacEachern McLeod Burke is a full-service law firm in Sydney, Nova Scotia, founded in 1987 by Duncan H. MacEachern and Charles Lorway. The firm has occupied its Charlotte Street building, a Sydney landmark dating to 1938, since 1996. Its lawyers handle property law, wills and estate planning, personal injury and insurance litigation, civil litigation, criminal law, and fisheries law.

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This firm’s lawyers at a glance

Called to the bar
2016–2022 · median 7 years in practice 2 of 2 lawyers
Law schools
Dalhousie University, University of Kent 2 of 2 lawyers

Where to find them

112 Charlotte Street, Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada B1P 1B9 · 902-539-4447

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