Leora Shemesh Criminal Law
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Leora Shemesh Criminal Law is a small Toronto criminal defence firm, with a team of two barristers and solicitors and a law clerk working out of an office on University Avenue. The firm's founder, Leora Shemesh, graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 2000 and articled first with Greenspan Humphrey Levine and then with Paul Burstein. After several years as a partner at Neuberger Rose LLP, the founder opened an independent practice under the Leora Shemesh name in 2006.
The firm defends clients charged with a wide range of criminal offences, including drug offences, domestic assault, drinking and driving, gun and gang offences, property crimes, sexual assault, white collar crime, and youth criminal justice matters, and represents clients across the Greater Toronto Area and elsewhere in Ontario. A significant part of the practice has centred on Charter of Rights litigation involving search warrants, search and seizure, and police conduct, alongside serious matters such as murder, manslaughter, and attempted murder. The firm's cases have drawn coverage from outlets including the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, and the Hamilton Spectator over nearly two decades, and Toronto Life named the founder to its 2025 list of the city's 50 most influential people.
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In the community
- The founder serves as Vice President of the Abraham Global Peace Initiative, an organization that works against racism and antisemitism.
- The founder has worked as an educator with the Advocates Society and the Criminal Lawyers' Association's group for young lawyers, and has guest lectured at Osgoode Hall Law School, mentoring newer criminal defence lawyers in Toronto.
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155 University Avenue, Suite 1920, Toronto, ON M5H 3B7 · 416-944-8111
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