Forget Smith
6 lawyers · City of Toronto, City of Ottawa
One of 2,345 law firms listed in Toronto, and one of 202 handling Insurance Law.
About Forget Smith
Forget Smith is the operating name of Forget & Associates Professional Corporation, an insurance defence litigation firm with offices in Toronto and Ottawa. The firm was co-founded by Martin Forget, called to the Ontario bar in 1998, and Marc Smith, a litigator who was appointed to the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario in 2020. Its lawyers now act for insurers on statutory accident benefits claims, motor vehicle and personal injury litigation, disability claims, coverage disputes, professional liability, and construction disputes, along with related regulatory and administrative matters. They appear before Ontario's Superior Court, Divisional Court, and Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada, and tribunals including the Licence Appeal Tribunal.
The firm's own website points to a long record in the courtroom, describing over 75 trials and hundreds of reported decisions across the team, with settlements on top of that. Its published list of cases traces reported decisions back to at least 2009. Forget Smith describes itself as bilingual and serves clients across the Greater Toronto Area, the National Capital Region, and Ontario more broadly. Individual lawyers bring their own focus areas to that broader insurance practice, from construction litigation and commercial arbitration to catastrophic impairment and benefit entitlement disputes before the Licence Appeal Tribunal.
Practice areas
Milestones & recognition
- Forget Smith was co-founded by Martin Forget and Marc Smith. Smith was appointed to the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario on March 6, 2020, and had served on the Attorney General's Access to Justice in French Advisory Committee since 2018 and as a member of l'Association des juristes d'expression francaise de l'Ontario since 1994.
- A lawyer formerly with the firm, Karen Borovay, was appointed to the Small Claims Court in October 2022, according to the firm's news page.
- The firm's published case list runs from 2009 to the present, reflecting more than 15 years of insurance defence litigation in Ontario's courts and tribunals.
In the community
- Martin Forget has given lectures to insurers, brokers, and adjusters associations on coverage disputes and developments in insurance law.
- Stephen Whibbs has spent several years mentoring undergraduate students in the Osgoode Cup Moot program.
- Ainsley Shannon is a member of the Advocacy Club, which organizes social events and continuing education programs for lawyers at the Ottawa Bar.
Good to know
Wheelchair accessible
By appointmentLawyers 6
This firm’s lawyers at a glance
- Called to the bar
- 1998–2026 · median 9 years in practice 6 of 6 lawyers
- Law schools
- Queen's University, University of Leicester, University of Ottawa, University of Victoria 4 of 6 lawyers
Who handles what
Offices 2
The neighbourhood
The Toronto office is at 4711 Yonge Street, Suite 1110, a 16 storey tower in the Yonge and Sheppard business district of North York also known as the Procter and Gamble building, with TTC subway station access at street level. It's a corporate office address rather than a courthouse block, which fits a litigation team that travels to the Superior Court, the Licence Appeal Tribunal, and other venues across the Greater Toronto Area rather than working out of a building next door to one.
The Ottawa office is in the Manulife Building at 220 Laurier Avenue West, a 15 storey concrete tower built in 1973 in Centretown, Ottawa's downtown core. From there the firm serves the National Capital Region and Eastern Ontario, including the bilingual work its co-founder Marc Smith was known for before joining the bench.
Frequently asked questions
- Does Forget Smith represent policyholders or insurance companies?
- Forget Smith's litigation practice is focused on the insurance industry. Its lawyers act for insurers, defending statutory accident benefits, motor vehicle, personal injury, and disability claims before Ontario's courts and tribunals.
- What kinds of insurance disputes does the firm handle?
- The firm's practice covers statutory accident benefits, motor vehicle litigation, personal injury and disability defence, coverage disputes, professional liability, product liability, and construction matters, along with related administrative and regulatory proceedings.
- Where are Forget Smith's offices?
- The firm has offices in Toronto, at 4711 Yonge Street, and in Ottawa, at 220 Laurier Avenue West, and serves clients across the Greater Toronto Area, the National Capital Region, and Ontario more broadly.
- Does Forget Smith offer services in French or other languages?
- The firm describes its services across Ontario as bilingual. Among its lawyers, Julia Falevich is fluent in Russian.
- How much courtroom and tribunal experience does the team have?
- The firm's own website describes over 75 trials and hundreds of reported decisions across the team, with regular appearances before the Superior Court, the Divisional Court, the Court of Appeal, the Supreme Court of Canada, and the Licence Appeal Tribunal.
- Is Forget Smith hiring?
- The firm's careers page recruits for insurance defence litigation roles and describes the office as a fast paced but congenial environment for candidates with a strong work ethic.
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