The CRS Law Collective

About The CRS Law Collective

The CRS Law Collective is a group of lawyers in Burlington, Ontario who share an office at 3400 Fairview Street while keeping their own separate practices. Carson Law and Rinaldi Silva LLP, two established Burlington area firms that had already been working closely together, came together under one roof in 2024, and the collective launched publicly in 2025. The collective's own site is explicit that it isn't a practising partnership: each lawyer remains a distinct legal practice, though the group works together day to day on real estate, corporate and business law, wills and estates, intellectual property, and civil and commercial litigation.

The six lawyers bring close to 120 years of combined experience. Ryan Carson founded Carson Law in 2013, after being called to the bar in 2007 and completing an undergraduate degree in kinesiology at Acadia University and a law degree at the University of Windsor. James Carson, who leads the collective's intellectual property work, was called to the bar in 1978, after studying chemical engineering at Queen's University and law at the University of Western Ontario. Vince Rinaldi has been licensed to practise law in Ontario since 2000 and in Texas since 1997, and before opening a practice in Oakville and Burlington served as legal counsel to the Regional Municipality of Peel and to a title insurance company.