10 lawyers · Established 1988 · City of Ottawa, Lanark County, Qikiqtaaluk
One of 436 law firms listed in Ottawa, and one of 122 handling Family Law.
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Virtual appointmentsAt LMS Lawyers LLP, every lawyer concentrates on specific practice areas instead of working as a generalist, and between them they cover family law, criminal defence, civil and corporate law, real estate, estate planning and more. If you've been hurt, the firm's injury practice runs under its own name, LMS Personal Injury Lawyers, with a website of its own and the same O'Connor Street head office in Ottawa.
David Capra is the managing partner. Capra became a partner in January 2016 and heads the civil litigation department. Russ Molot, counsel to the firm, leads the family law department and is the in-house go-to on family law questions for the other lawyers. Besides the Ottawa head office, you'll find LMS in Kanata, in Almonte and in Iqaluit, Nunavut.
Several of the lawyers trained at LMS. Paolo Giancaterino, now a partner, began articling there in 2006 right after finishing at the University of Ottawa and came on as an associate a year later. Jessica Bazor articled with the firm and stayed, and Sarah Melnyk's articling year there ran from 2024 to 2025; both are now associates splitting their time between the family and civil litigation groups.
Backgrounds on the team vary. Sean Caulfeild, a senior associate, came over from a national accounting firm in Toronto, where the role was Senior Manager in personal tax, estate and wealth planning advisory work. Hunter Graves grew up in the country and serves many clients in the agricultural community. Michael Smith offers legal services in French as well as English, and Russ Molot is fluent in both languages too. Rima Moussalli recently completed articles and has joined the firm as an associate lawyer.
Every new matter starts with an initial consultation, and LMS commits to getting back to you in hours, not days. For injury claims, that first meeting is free, and there's no fee unless the case is won.
LMS Personal Injury Lawyers was founded in Ottawa in 1988 to give injured people representation that could stand up to well-resourced insurance companies. It has worked on a contingency basis from the very beginning, with no fees unless it wins, so injured clients don't have to risk their financial security to pursue a claim.
Family Law
Criminal Defence
Civil Litigation & Dispute Resolution
Business & Corporate Law
Real Estate Law
Wills, Estates & Trusts
Personal Injury
Immigration Law
Tax Law
Administrative & Regulatory Law
LMS Personal Injury Lawyers handles motor vehicle claims on both tracks, the tort claim and the accident benefits claim, and its work extends to slip and falls and disability disputes such as long-term disability, CPP and ODSP. David Capra's files have also included animal attacks and denied critical illness or life insurance claims. Beyond its own lawyers, the division has a network of medical, rehabilitation and financial specialists who know the accident litigation process well.
LMS Personal Injury Lawyers represents patients and families hurt by medical negligence, from mistakes in surgery and late diagnoses to injuries at birth, medication errors and other harm that care should have prevented. The team works closely with medical experts, drawing on a network of independent specialists from across North America with experience testifying in Ontario proceedings. Before advising anyone to go ahead with a claim, the lawyers look hard at causation first, and clients have guidance at every stage of the process.
Russ Molot heads the family law department, and associates Jessica Bazor and Sarah Melnyk work in the family group as well. The team handles uncontested divorces, where only the paperwork is needed, and contested ones over support, property or children, along with matrimonial home questions such as a sale, a buyout or who gets to stay. Diana Aoun drafts and reviews prenuptial and postnuptial agreements and offers family law services in English and Arabic.
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The criminal side defends impaired driving, assault and drug charges among others, and it also runs bail hearings and youth cases. Paolo Giancaterino has appeared in the Ontario Court of Justice, the Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal for Ontario, as well as before boards and tribunals.
Hunter Graves handles residential purchases, sales and refinancing, but also property severances, files for private lenders and syndicated purchases by groups of investors. Diana Aoun has acted on hundreds of deals for individuals, businesses and private lenders.
Sean Caulfeild advises on franchise purchases and sales and has moved family-owned companies to the next generation. Graves puts real estate knowledge to work on commercial leases for business clients.
Caulfeild has taken a family-owned corporation through an estate freeze meant to limit future tax and lay the groundwork for succession.
Caulfeild holds a CPA Ontario certification in estate and trust administration and taxes, and Graves sets up living, testamentary and special needs trusts for clients.
On the business immigration side, Caulfeild helps companies get Canadian work permits and handle Labour Market Impact Assessments.
Michael Smith's practice includes administrative law, and Capra has appeared before the Ontario Social Benefits Tribunal, the Ontario Rental Housing Tribunal and the Ontario Human Rights Commission.
Wheelchair accessible
Woman-owned
LGBTQ+ friendly
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Free consultationLMS takes a client-centred approach with an open, transparent process. If the firm is the right fit, work begins promptly; if it isn't, you'll get honest feedback and help finding the right assistance elsewhere. You can follow your file through the firm's own technology, with real-time updates whenever you want them, and LMS commits to transparent billing.
The family practice is settlement-first, with court as the fallback when it's needed. LMS commits to giving divorce clients a lawyer who returns calls, explains each step and tells them when a fight isn't worth having.
In Kanata, 150 Katimavik Road is Kanata Town Centre, a three-storey office building with a small retail wing, south of Highway 417 in the Katimavik-Hazeldean community. Its office space once served as the City of Kanata's first permanent city hall. Two of the firm's real estate clerks work there.
The Almonte office is at 14 Mill Street, home base for a law clerk who works on wills and estates, including estate litigation. Mill Street is one of the streets inside the Downtown Almonte Heritage Conservation District. Almonte began as a mill town on the Mississippi River in the 1820s, and Mill Street climbs in an S-shaped curve along the river's south shore.
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