Ambrosini Law Professional Corporation
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About Ambrosini Law Professional Corporation
Ambrosini Law is a Toronto firm built around mental health law, and it brings that focus to legal problems wherever they surface, whether in health law, criminal law or administrative law. It's a practice that cares about people in vulnerable positions and stands up for the rights of those who need help.
The firm's namesake, Daniel Lamberto Ambrosini, was called to the Ontario bar in 2010 and pairs legal training with a doctorate in psychiatry. That education runs through McGill University, with a common and civil law LLB/BCL in 2007 and a PhD in psychiatry from the Faculty of Medicine in 2011, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard Law School in 2013. Ambrosini is a senior lawyer member of the Consent and Capacity Board and has been in-house counsel to a hospital's forensic psychiatry program, a role that has taken Ambrosini before the Ontario Review Board in hundreds of forensic psychiatry matters.
Aniqa Rashid's training spans law, forensic psychology and mental health research. Rashid has done extensive research inside forensic psychiatric units and correctional facilities, looking at people held under mental health legislation, and earned an LLM at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, in 2024.
A first meeting runs about half an hour to an hour, once a conflict check is cleared, and there's no charge for that initial consultation. Legal Aid certificates are accepted for certain matters. The office is at 393 University Avenue, Suite 2000.
Practice areas
Tribunals and boards
Ambrosini Law's tribunal work includes representing clients in quasi-criminal cases before the Ontario Review Board and in landlord-tenant disputes before the Landlord and Tenant Board.
Criminal law and forensic psychiatry
Ambrosini Law has particular experience in criminal cases that turn on forensic psychiatric assessments, such as fitness to stand trial and not criminally responsible findings under Part XX.1 of the Criminal Code. It acts for clients at different stages of a prosecution, from bail hearings and preliminary inquiries through to trial, and where it fits, works on mental health diversion so that minor offences can be dealt with outside the criminal justice system.
Mental health law
Mental health law covers issues such as capacity and consent, involuntary commitment and psychiatric advance directives, the last being the subject of Daniel Ambrosini's doctoral research on autonomy for people with mental illness in Canada. The firm doesn't represent clients before the Consent and Capacity Board at this time, but it may be able to give independent legal advice on these issues more broadly. Ambrosini has also advised other law firms on complicated mental health questions and has appeared in court as an expert witness on mental capacity.
Health law
Daniel Ambrosini has worked in health law for over fifteen years, through client work, teaching, conference presentations at the international level and published articles. Matters the firm can help with range from college complaints against healthcare professionals and coroner's inquests to medical assistance in dying and hospital appointments and privileges.
Neurolaw
The firm advises clients who want to put new scientific methods and technology before a court as evidence. It works with neuroscientists, psychologists and others to judge how testing, reports and brain imaging would hold up if offered at trial.
Correctional law
With mental health issues a growing concern in both provincial jails and federal prisons, Ambrosini Law assists with matters such as disciplinary charges, habeas corpus applications, involuntary segregation and parole hearings before the Ontario Parole Board or Federal Parole Board of Canada.
Professional discipline
Professionals from many sectors in Ontario who face a disciplinary hearing or an alleged breach of their code of conduct before a college, tribunal or board can turn to the firm. Lawyers and paralegals called before the Law Society Tribunal may also find help here.
Higher education
Daniel Ambrosini knows colleges and universities in Canada and the U.S. from the inside, having been a student, researcher, post-doctoral fellow and faculty member. The firm helps clients work through institutional rules and policies, in matters such as academic disciplinary hearings.
Mediation, arbitration and estates
Drawing on psychiatry, psychology and law, the firm offers arbitration and mediation, with mediation available for disputes over estates, trusts and substitute decision-making, where mental health questions come up often. On the planning side, it explains the law around medical assistance in dying.
Health litigation and personal injury
Ambrosini Law's litigation is mainly in health and medical law, from medical negligence to disputes about the doctor-patient relationship. Its injury work recognises that harm can be psychological or emotional as well as physical, and nervous shock and other mental or psychological injury claims are among the cases it handles.
Health privacy
Privacy matters are mostly in the health and medical sector under Ontario's Personal Health Information Protection Act (PHIPA). The firm also advises under the federal PIPEDA, which can come into play when private companies running medical or health research handle personal information in clinical trials.
Housing and real estate
The firm helps with problems arising in social, public, co-op or non-profit housing, can look at whether someone faced discrimination when applying for housing or as a tenant, and represents clients at the Landlord and Tenant Board. It also handles residential purchases, sales and condominium deals.
Constitutional appeals and legal opinions
Ambrosini Law takes on constitutional litigation and appellate work in mental health, disability and medical law. It also prepares written legal opinions, mostly on questions of mental health law and disability rights.
How Ambrosini Law Professional Corporation works
Ambrosini Law commits to client-focused, cost-conscious work that looks for practical answers to real problems, and to working alongside each client, often in highly complex situations. In litigation, its aim is to resolve a dispute without drawn-out, expensive court proceedings where possible, and to give a candid view of the chances of success when a case does go before a tribunal or court.
On billing, the firm's policy is that fees and disbursements are fair, reasonable and disclosed promptly. Clients can be billed hourly, by stage, by a flat fee for a fixed task or, in certain circumstances, on contingency, and the chosen arrangement is confirmed in writing once the firm is retained. Interim and final accounts show fees and disbursements as separate amounts, and most major credit cards are accepted. For financially vulnerable clients, the firm offers discounts wherever it can and is open to payment plans.
Milestones & recognition
- Daniel Ambrosini of Toronto was reappointed as a part-time lawyer member of the Consent and Capacity Board for a three-year term from January 1, 2020, and again for a five-year term effective January 1, 2023 or the date of the order, whichever came later.
- Daniel Lamberto Ambrosini worked as a research lawyer with the Law Commission of Ontario, contributing to its recommendations and reports to government.
- As a research fellow at Harvard Law School, Daniel Lamberto Ambrosini studied domestic and global trends in the legal profession and in law firm management.
- Daniel Lamberto Ambrosini has served as an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at McMaster University, where the teaching and supervision of students and psychiatry residents covered forensic psychiatry and neurolaw.
In the community
- Daniel Ambrosini has lectured on health law and ethics to MBA, first-year medical, social work and law students.
- Daniel Ambrosini's published work on mental health law includes many peer-reviewed articles, along with book chapters and reports.
Affiliations & connections
- Consent and Capacity Board: Daniel Lamberto Ambrosini sits on the board as a senior lawyer member.
- McGill Journal of Law and Health: Daniel Lamberto Ambrosini was a co-founding editor-in-chief of the journal.
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The neighbourhood
The firm works out of University Centre, a short walk from St. Patrick subway station. University Avenue is an eight-lane street lined with some of the city's major institutions, Osgoode Hall and other legal institutions among them, along with research and teaching hospitals and large office buildings for finance and insurance firms. At its northern end, a run of hospitals including Toronto General, Mount Sinai and The Hospital for Sick Children has earned that stretch the nickname Hospital Row.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Ambrosini Law's neurolaw practice cover lie detection or brain injury evidence?
- Ambrosini Law advises on neurolaw issues that include lie detection techniques, brain privacy claims, brain scans and neuroimaging used to determine states of mind in court, and traumatic brain injuries.
- I'm a regulated professional whose lapse happened during a mental health crisis. Can Ambrosini Law help with my college hearing?
- Ambrosini Law recognises that professional lapses can happen for many reasons, including a mental disorder, psychological stress or medical issues at the time. A professional called before a disciplinary college, tribunal or board can contact the firm for a free consultation.
- Can Ambrosini Law help with parole or a temporary absence from prison?
- Ambrosini Law's correctional work can take in day and full parole, parole by exception, statutory releases and temporary absence permits.
- What kinds of appeals does Ambrosini Law take on?
- The appellate matters Ambrosini Law assists with include mental disability rights, addictions and states of mind, defences to criminal charges that involve psychiatric disorders, and medical law cases such as the right to refuse treatment or the right to treatment.
Where to find them
393 University Avenue, Suite 2000, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1E6
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