About Atwood Labine LLP

Atwood Law, formerly Atwood Labine LLP, is a full service law firm in Thunder Bay, Ontario, with eleven lawyers. The firm traces back to 1978, and it has carried a few different names over the years as partners joined and left, including a period as Atwood Labine Arnone McCartney LLP. The office sits on the second floor at 1136 Alloy Drive, at the corner of Balmoral Street, in the centre of the city, roughly halfway between the old downtowns of Fort William and Port Arthur.

The firm handles business and corporate law, real estate, wills and estates, family law, civil litigation, and criminal and regulatory defence, including coroner's inquests. Several of its lawyers teach at Lakehead University's Bora Laskin Faculty of Law: Gilbert Labine as an adjunct lecturer, Neil McCartney and Kate Brindley in criminal law and advocacy, and Elizabeth Calonego as a contract lecturer in family law. Labine, a certified specialist in criminal litigation, received the Law Society of Ontario Medal in 2020 for service to the profession. The firm describes its own history as an apprenticeship, with each generation of partners passing on the practice to the next, down to its newest associates.

In the community

  • Gilbert Labine sat on the Lakehead University Board of Governors and was Vice-Chair of the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, and currently chairs the North West Local Health Integration Network board.
  • Neil McCartney has served on the boards of the Thunder Bay Symphony Orchestra and the Thunder Bay Art Gallery, and currently serves on the board of Magnus Theatre.
  • Terry-Lynn Miettinen served as President of the Thunder Bay Law Association from 2018 to 2019 and as a director of St. Joseph's Care Group.
  • Kate Brindley serves on the board of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Northwestern Ontario and has helped organize women in criminal defence law initiatives in Thunder Bay.
  • Elizabeth Calonego has served on the boards of the Thunder Bay Chamber of Commerce, the Regional Food Distribution Association, and Thunder Bay and Area Victim Services.

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Certified Specialists

A designation granted by the Law Society of Ontario, not a self-declared area of focus.

This firm’s lawyers at a glance

Called to the bar
2021 · median 5 years in practice 1 of 10 lawyers
Law schools
Lakehead University (Bora Laskin Faculty of Law) (2), Queen's University (2), Lakehead University 5 of 10 lawyers

Where to find them

1136 Alloy Drive, Second Floor, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 6M9 · 807-623-4342

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