Brass Law Office
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One of 436 law firms listed in Ottawa, and one of 54 handling Criminal Defence.
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Brass Law Office is a criminal defence firm based in downtown Ottawa, with more than 25 years of practice. From its office on Elgin Street, the firm represents people charged with bail, drug offences, assault and domestic violence, impaired and other driving offences, murder, weapons charges, sexual assault, theft and fraud, and youth criminal matters. Its client base reaches well beyond the city, into Perth, Pembroke, Renfrew, Arnprior, Almonte, Kemptville, Cornwall, L'Orignal, Smiths Falls and Brockville.
The firm's two lawyers, Alan Brass and Shira Brass, are parent and child. Alan Brass earned a law degree from the University of Ottawa in 1990, was called to the bar in 1992, and has gone on to teach criminal law at the Law Society of Upper Canada's Bar Admission Course and guest lecture at the University of Ottawa's law school. Shira Brass holds a Juris Doctor from Dalhousie University's Schulich School of Law, was called to the bar in 2016, and joined the practice while still in law school, staying in criminal defence ever since.
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- Alan Brass volunteers with community associations and speaks to service organizations, seniors' groups and secondary school students.
- Shira Brass has volunteered with the KidsSport Running and Reading Program and with at-risk Ethiopian Israeli youth.
- Shira Brass serves on the boards of the Tamir Foundation and the Bora Laskin Law Society.
- Shira Brass has spoken at a Defence Counsel Association of Ottawa conference and to the Youth Services Bureau.
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Suite 704, 200 Elgin Street, Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1L5 · 613-238-5757
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