3 lawyers · City of Hamilton, Middlesex County (London), Waterloo Region
One of 169 law firms listed in Hamilton, and one of 28 handling Criminal Defence.
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Lakin Afolabi Law defends people facing any criminal charge, with a particular focus on sexual assault and domestic assault. It’s a team of criminal lawyers in London, Ontario, and its Kitchener-Waterloo office takes on cases from the tri-cities and the communities around them.
Founding lawyer Lakin Afolabi has litigated more than 20 jury trials to verdict, along with hundreds of other trials and hearings. For associate lawyer Alyssa Zoltek, equal access to justice is a responsibility and not only a principle. Mental health struggles, money trouble and difficult personal situations are often bound up with a criminal charge.
Criminal and quasi-criminal law is the heart of the practice. Most clients retain the firm privately, and it takes on legal aid work as well. Many of the people in the office are immigrants or the children of immigrants, and several of them were trained abroad.
The firm is building a family law practice of its own. High-quality family inquiries come in regularly, and since many of them overlap with a criminal matter, it would rather keep those files than send them elsewhere. Working efficiently matters to the office too, through good systems and well-chosen technology, AI among it, to cut friction and serve clients better. Clients can book a consultation themselves on the office’s online calendar.
Sexual assault and domestic assault files form a large part of the firm's caseload. In sexual interference cases, its lawyers go to the routine administrative court dates for the client, so the client doesn't have to miss other commitments or sit through the stigma of those appearances.
The firm takes on every drinking and driving offence under section 320 of the Criminal Code, among them care and control charges, impaired driving and refusing to provide a sample.
Appeal work isn't limited to London: the firm offers it anywhere in Ontario. It brings criminal appeals in the Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal, applies to end SOIRA orders early, and appears at parole hearings before the Ontario Parole Board and the Parole Board of Canada.
Young people facing charges are represented as well, and from time to time the firm acts for someone facing extradition proceedings.
When changing a court condition would be reasonable, the firm's lawyers can argue for a variation so the client isn't left heading toward a breach.
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In-person servicesLakin Afolabi Law takes a human approach to law: its lawyers, articling clerks and staff set out to understand what each client needs and to meet those needs. The work runs in three stages, listening to the client, building the strategy with the client, then representing the client in court. The aim is the particular outcome the client wants, whether that’s a conditional discharge or probation in place of jail time, a full or partial acquittal, or a plea to a lesser charge, such as assault rather than sexual assault.
Comfortable lies don’t help anyone here, and a harsh truth is always preferred to a comfortable one. Two decisions belong to the client alone: whether to go to trial or plead guilty, and, if there’s a trial, whether to testify. Trial preparation is shaped by a line from Eddie Greenspan, the advocate who held that every great hour of cross-examination takes about 50 hours of preparation alone in the office.
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