Linda H. Kolyn Law Office

About Linda H. Kolyn Law Office

Linda H. Kolyn, Barrister and Solicitor, is a sole practitioner based in Toronto. Kolyn earned an LL.B. from the University of Windsor in 1979 and was called to the bar by the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1981. Early career work included corporate, commercial, and conveyancing matters, then several years in civil litigation, followed by a stint at the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General handling labour relations, employment law, and Charter litigation, and a further period at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources on administrative law and legislative drafting.

Independent practice began in 1988 and continues today, covering family law, employment law, civil litigation, wills and estates, business law, and administrative and regulatory matters. The firm's list of reported cases stretches back to the 1980s and touches Ontario courts and tribunals, from labour relations disputes to landlord and tenant appeals. Two matters are noted as having established new points of law: Orzeck v. Orzeck (1995), on a parent's duty to keep supporting a child past the age of majority, and Lochwin v. Wasserman (1997), a civil procedure decision. Kolyn was also the first woman appointed to, and later the first woman to chair, the Ontario Insurance Advisory Board, and, in the third year of law school, appeared before Justice Horace Krever's Royal Commission Inquiry into Legal Aid Funding, one of two students who took part in that inquiry.