Cowle Law

About Cowle Law

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Cowle Law is a small firm on Bridge Street in downtown Napanee, Ontario. It traces its history to 1970, when three local solicitors, James E. Madden, Barry Young, and A. Peter Nasmith, formed Madden, Young & Nasmith. The practice changed names several times over the following decades as partners joined and retired: it became Madden, Sirman & Zeran in 1977 and then Madden, Sirman & Cowle in 1992, after L. Bruce Cowle acquired Bruce Zeran's interest on Zeran's retirement. The firm took its current name, Cowle Law, in 2023.

L. Bruce Cowle joined the practice in 1990, was called to the Ontario Bar that year, and became sole owner when Bill Sirman retired in 2003. Bruce Cowle now leads the firm alongside Alex Cowle, Bruce Cowle's son, and Natasha Cowle, both called to the Bar in 2020 and 2021 after law degrees from Bond University in Australia. Cowle Law practises business and corporate law, real estate, wills and estate planning, land development, and municipal law, and also provides notary public and commissioner of oaths services. The firm says it has acted for municipal governments for decades, and Bruce Cowle has served as a Deputy Judge of the Small Claims Court since being sworn in on June 6, 2022.