Christie/Cummings

About Christie/Cummings

Christie/Cummings Barristers & Solicitors is a full-service law firm in Collingwood, Ontario, founded in 1991 by Stephen J.D. Christie and Mary Anne Cummings. Christie had worked as a partner at a mid-sized Toronto firm and, before that, as in-house counsel for an international mining company. Cummings had practiced as an associate at a mid-sized Toronto firm. Today the firm has five lawyers who handle business and corporate law, real estate and mortgages, wills and estate planning and administration, commercial litigation, and family law for clients in Collingwood and the surrounding area.

Later additions to the team brought experience from further afield. Kristen Douglas was admitted to the bar in British Columbia in 2001 before returning to practice in Ontario in 2002, then spent more than 14 years as in-house counsel for a ski resort company with operations in Canada and the United States. Melinda Tomlinson joined from a national firm's Waterloo office, and Jordan Kofman spent nine years at a personal injury firm, representing seriously injured clients against major insurers, before moving into commercial litigation. Christie and Cummings have also stayed involved in Collingwood outside the office: Christie served on the boards of the Collingwood General and Marine Hospital and Alpine Ontario, and Cummings chaired the hospital board's Governance Committee.