Odette Rwigamba Lawyers Professional Corporation

About Odette Rwigamba Lawyers Professional Corporation

Odette Rwigamba Lawyers Professional Corporation is a law firm in downtown Ottawa, founded in 2003 by Odette Rwigamba. What began as a solo practice has grown into a small team that now includes a second lawyer, a senior law clerk, and an immigration assistant, working out of Suite 1206 at 1 Nicholas Street.

The firm practises six areas: family law, real estate, wills and estates, personal injury, business law, and immigration law. Its lawyers appear before every level of Ontario's courts, from the Superior Court of Justice and Divisional Court to the Court of Appeal for Ontario, as well as the Federal Court of Canada and various administrative tribunals, and the firm also resolves many cases through mediation rather than a full trial. Personal injury clients are represented on a contingency basis, so they don't pay unless the case succeeds.

Rwigamba earned a psychology degree from the University of Ottawa in 1999, followed by a law degree from the same university's Faculty of Law in 2002, and was called to the Ontario bar in 2003. A member of the Law Society of Ontario and the County of Carleton Law Association, Rwigamba later helped found a legal clinic through Ottawa Immigrant Services and has continued to support that organization by providing information to women and children who are victims of domestic violence.