John J Magyar, Barrister & Solicitor

About John J Magyar, Barrister & Solicitor

John J Magyar, Barrister & Solicitor is a sole practitioner based in Burlington, Ontario, with a home office in Hamilton and a service area that also reaches Oakville and Mississauga. Magyar was called to the bar in 2013 after a BA in philosophy, a Juris Doctor, and an LLM from the University of Western Ontario, followed by a PhD in law from the University of Cambridge. Before practicing law, Magyar worked as a recording engineer and music producer, a background that now feeds into estate planning work for clients in the literary and music industries.

The practice concentrates on three areas: family law, wills and estate planning, and estate administration, alongside travelling notary and commissioner services. A distinctive part of the estate planning work is literary executorship, built for authors and musicians who need their intellectual property and creative legacy handled with more care than a standard will provides. Magyar articled with family law lawyer Wanda B. F. Corston in London, Ontario, gaining early experience with Indigenous community clients.