Kaplan Law

About Kaplan Law

Kaplan Law is a Toronto firm founded in 2016 by lawyer Ari Kaplan, with an office at 393 University Avenue. Kaplan was called to the Ontario bar in 1999 and has since practiced for 25 years in Ontario, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Quebec, and New Brunswick, appearing before superior courts, provincial courts of appeal, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. The firm's focus is pensions and benefits law: administration and governance, funding, deficits and surplus, plan conversions, and regulatory compliance, for administrators, employers, unions, service providers, individual plan members, and government regulators. Kaplan also works as a mediator and arbitrator, is Canada's first Qualified Mediator (Q.Med) with expertise in pensions and benefits law, and has logged over 2,000 hours in that role. For matters outside pensions and benefits, the firm refers clients to other lawyers in its network without charging a referral fee.

Kaplan wrote Pension Law, now in its third edition (2021, University of Toronto Press), with Mitch Frazer as co-author on the second and third editions. Courts have called it Canada's treatise in the area, it's been cited repeatedly by the Supreme Court of Canada and other courts, tribunals, and commissions, and it received the Walter Owen Book Prize for outstanding new contribution to Canadian legal literature. Kaplan holds a Chambers Band 1 ranking, Lexpert's Most Frequently Recommended designation, and has appeared in Best Lawyers from 2006 to 2025.