Hicks Adams
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One of 2,276 law firms listed in Toronto, and one of 307 handling Criminal Defence.
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Hicks Adams is a Toronto criminal defence firm founded in 1995 by Christopher Hicks, Michael Block, and Colin Adams. The partnership covers criminal law broadly, taking on everything from minor charges to murder, guns and gangs prosecutions, and appeals, and its lawyers appear at every level of court in Ontario as well as the Supreme Court of Canada. The office is in downtown Toronto, but the firm's lawyers travel across the province to represent clients.
The firm describes itself as fully computerized with its own legal library, and it works with a network of outside experts, including toxicologists for impaired driving cases and firearms specialists for murder cases, to help build a defence. One of the founding partners has argued cases at the Supreme Court of Canada more than a dozen times and has been named to The Best Lawyers in Canada for criminal defence in multiple recent years. Hicks Adams also runs an annual program for four articling students and four summer students, who help manage the firm's set date court lists and prepare bail reviews and trial materials alongside its lawyers.
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This firm’s lawyers at a glance
- Called to the bar
- 1978–2024 · median 5 years in practice 6 of 9 lawyers
- Law schools
- Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, Griffith University, Osgoode Hall Law School, University of Arizona, University of Kent, University of Leeds and 1 more 7 of 9 lawyers
- Languages on the roster
- English, French
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18 King Street East, Unit 1501, Toronto, Ontario M5C 1C4 · 416-975-1700
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