Legge & Legge

About Legge & Legge

Legge & Legge is a small general practice law firm in the Deer Park neighbourhood at Yonge and St. Clair in Toronto, where it has practised since 1955. Laura Legge and Bruce Legge founded the firm after Laura Legge left a position as a junior solicitor with Ontario's Department of Health, drafting post-war health and public health legislation. Laura Legge went on to become the first woman elected as a bencher of the Law Society of Upper Canada, and later its first woman Treasurer. In 2007 the Law Society of Upper Canada created the Laura Legge Award, given each year to a woman lawyer in Ontario who has shown leadership in the profession. Bruce Legge, a lawyer and Canadian Forces officer, later reached the rank of Major General in the reserves.

John Legge and partner Mary Stokes continued the practice after Bruce Legge's death in 2006 and Laura Legge's death in 2010. John Legge, called to the bar in 1984, works in civil litigation, family law, and alternative dispute resolution. Mary Stokes, called in 1983, concentrates on wills, trusts, and estate administration after completing a doctorate in law at Osgoode Hall Law School and later lecturing there. Elizabeth Legge, from the family's third generation, joined the firm as a lawyer in 2017. The firm still handles corporate and commercial law, real estate, and wills and estates, and offers unbundled legal services for clients needing help with only part of a matter.