Buie Cohen LLP
1 lawyer · City of Toronto
One of 2,345 law firms listed in Toronto, and one of 764 handling Business & Corporate Law.
About Buie Cohen LLP
Buie Cohen LLP is a small law firm in Toronto with more than 50 years of combined legal experience between its two founding lawyers, Catharine M. Buie and Harold B. Cohen, Q.C. Buie has since retired from active practice, and Cohen continues as the firm's senior partner, working directly with clients rather than routing questions through junior staff or assistants. The firm describes its approach as that of a small town lawyer practicing in a large city, built around long term client relationships rather than one off transactions.
Cohen's practice centers on estate planning, personal injury, and corporate and commercial matters, including construction liens, and draws on more than 20 years as a Deputy Judge before moving into private mediation work. Buie's background is in civil litigation, with cases argued at every level of the Ontario court system up to the Supreme Court of Canada, along with formal training in mediation and alternate dispute resolution. That combination shapes the firm's broader practice, which spans wills and estates, collaborative family law, real estate, and mediation, and treats ADR as a first option rather than a last resort before litigation.
Practice areas
Milestones & recognition
- Harold B. Cohen, Q.C. served as a Deputy Judge for more than 20 years before moving into private mediation practice.
- Catharine M. Buie argued cases at every level of the Ontario court system, including the Supreme Court of Canada, before retiring from practice.
- The firm has more than 50 years of combined legal experience between its two founders.
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Offices 2
The neighbourhood
Cohen's office is in the Forest Hill North area of midtown Toronto, a quiet, established residential part of the city near Eglinton Avenue West and Bathurst Street, with parks such as Ben Nobleman Park nearby. It's a fitting setting for a practice built around mediation, estate administration, and family matters rather than courtroom volume, work that tends to call for a calmer, more private meeting space than a downtown office tower. Buie's earlier office was on Stafford Street on the west side of downtown, closer to King Street West, and it remains listed as a contact address even though Buie has retired from practice.
Frequently asked questions
- Can Buie Cohen help me buy or sell a home in Toronto?
- Yes. The firm's real estate practice covers both buying and selling, including reviewing an agreement of purchase and sale before you commit, status certificate review for condos, title issues such as mortgages or encroachments, and closing, and it also acts for executors selling estate property.
- Can Buie Cohen prepare my will and powers of attorney?
- Yes. The firm's wills and estates work includes drafting wills, powers of attorney for property and for personal care, and guidance for executors and trustees through estate administration.
- Does Buie Cohen handle divorce and separation through a collaborative process rather than court?
- Yes. The firm's family law practice is built around the collaborative process for resolving separation and divorce issues, and it also prepares separation agreements and marriage or cohabitation contracts.
- Can Buie Cohen mediate a dispute instead of going to court?
- Yes. The firm's mediators, including a former Deputy Judge, handle disputes over estate administration, executor compensation, powers of attorney, employment, separation agreements, construction liens, and shareholder disagreements in closely held corporations.
- I'm starting a small business in Toronto, can Buie Cohen help incorporate it?
- Yes. The firm's corporate and commercial work includes incorporating companies, drafting partnership and shareholder agreements, and handling commercial leases and business purchase and sale transactions.
- How long has Buie Cohen LLP been practicing law?
- The firm describes more than 50 years of combined legal experience between its two founding lawyers, Catharine M. Buie and Harold B. Cohen, Q.C.
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