Dyer Brown LLP

About Dyer Brown LLP

Dyer Brown LLP is a general practice law firm with roots in London, Ontario and a second office in downtown Toronto. Partner William Woodward, one of the firm's managing partners, joined Dyer Brown as an articling student in 1986 and was called to the Ontario bar in 1988, becoming a partner in 1995, a career that traces the firm back at least four decades. The Toronto office, on the 11th floor of Waterpark Place on Bay Street, came later; the firm's own site frames it as a newer addition alongside the original London base on Richmond Street. Dyer Brown's roughly 14 lawyers work across commercial litigation, employment law, estate litigation and administration, family law, fidelity and surety, insurance defence, municipal defence, personal injury, professional negligence and medical malpractice, and real estate.

The firm has represented insurers since its founding, and its municipal defence group acts for municipalities, regional districts, and government agencies. Its personal injury lawyers also represent people hurt in car accidents, slip and falls, and other negligence claims, so Dyer Brown lawyers appear on both sides of some of the same subject areas. The firm also runs an annual charity golf tournament that had reached its 25th year as of a 2020 update on its website, raising money for two local health foundations.