Hughes + Cooper LLP
Automatically compiled listing. Details may contain errors.4 lawyers · City of Hamilton
One of 169 law firms listed in Hamilton, and one of 43 handling Family Law.
About Hughes + Cooper LLP
Hughes + Cooper LLP is a small family law firm in downtown Hamilton, Ontario. All four of its lawyers practise exclusively in family law, and its office at 111 Charles Street serves clients across Hamilton, Halton, Toronto, Niagara, Brantford, and Kitchener Waterloo. The firm operated for years as Hughes & Bale LLP. Jennifer Cooper joined that firm in 2013 and became a partner the following year, and the firm now practises under the name Hughes + Cooper LLP alongside Kirsten Hughes, who established a legal practice in Hamilton. Both partners are certified by the Law Society of Ontario as Specialists in Family Law.
The firm's work covers parenting time and decision-making, child and spousal support, division of property, domestic contracts, family law litigation, adoption, and international child abduction, including cases under the Hague Convention and cases involving countries that haven't signed it. Hughes has argued cases at every level of court in Ontario and is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and Cooper has sat on Ontario's Family Rules Committee. Associates Michaela Newman and Katerina Svozilkova round out a team that also includes law clerks with more than 50 combined years of experience in family law. The firm sums up its approach simply: "We bring order. We get results."
In the community
- Jennifer Cooper is a trustee of the Hamilton Law Association, a past member of Hamilton's Family Law Bench and Bar Committee, the bar representative to the Hamilton Family Law Community Resource Committee, and a board director of the Royal Hamilton Yacht Club.
- Kirsten Hughes has served as a legal panelist for the Office of the Children's Lawyer and as a Dispute Resolution Officer at Hamilton's Unified Family Court.
- Katerina Svozilkova is a Family Law Practice Group leader with The Advocates' Society, a board member of the Hamilton Halton Collaborative Family Practice Group, a volunteer on Luke's Place's family lawyer panel, and a Dispute Resolution Officer panelist at the Superior Court of Justice in Milton and Hamilton.
- Michaela Newman worked as a caseworker at Queen's Family Law Clinic during law school, providing legal services to the Kingston community.
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Certified Specialists
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This firm’s lawyers at a glance
- Called to the bar
- 2002–2017 · median 16 years in practice 4 of 4 lawyers
- Law schools
- Queen's University 1 of 4 lawyers
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Where to find them
111 Charles Street, Hamilton, Ontario L8P 3E4 · 905-523-5252
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