JM Law

About JM Law

JM Law is a small family law practice on St. Clair Avenue West in midtown Toronto, run by Jacqueline M. Mills, a certified specialist in family law who has practised exclusively in the field since 1986. Mills earned a B.A. in economics from Queen's University in 1979 and an LL.B. from Queen's in 1984, graduating with two academic awards and a placement with the Law Reform Commission of Canada. Mills worked as an associate and then a partner at Lang Michener, later merged into McMillan LLP, for fourteen years before forming the partnership Doran & Mills in 1998, then continued as a sole practitioner from 2006 on, after partner Burke Doran retired.

Mills is a Certified Specialist in Family Law, an appointed Dispute Resolution Officer at the Superior Court of Justice, and a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. Elise Visco, an associate lawyer who is collaboratively certified, works alongside Mills. The practice handles cohabitation and marriage agreements, separation, divorce, parenting and support matters, and family arbitration, through negotiation, mediation, and litigation at every level of Ontario's courts.