12 lawyers · Established 1999 · City of Toronto, Simcoe County, Waterloo Region and 3 more locations
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McLeish Orlando LLP has been helping the critically injured since 1999. From its founding, the firm has worked exclusively on personal injury and wrongful death litigation, and always for plaintiffs. Its clients have included judges, lawyers, insurance adjusters and health care providers, as well as relatives and friends of people in those fields who've been seriously injured.
Since it opened, McLeish Orlando has kept its practice to serious injury cases so it can devote the personnel and money needed to litigate such complicated files. Principal partners Dale Orlando and Patrick Brown guide the firm, and three of its lawyers, Dale Orlando, Patrick Brown and John McLeish, are certified by the Law Society of Ontario as Specialists in Civil Litigation. The firm's lawyers have authored personal injury books and led programs offered by the Law Society of Ontario and other bodies, and John McLeish has co-written five published books covering injury, fatality and insurance law.
Nick Todorovic's approach to injury work draws partly on a PhD in organic chemistry and years of lab research into pharmaceutical drug candidates for cancers and antibiotic resistance, and Todorovic is active in the Serbo-Croat community helping victims reach justice. Summer and articling students are an integral part of the litigation practice, and conducting a Highway Traffic Act trial has been among their recent tasks. Brandon Pedersen, Jamie Davison and Kate Hunter each started at McLeish Orlando as summer students, came back for articles and were hired as associates, while Lindsay Charles joined as a law student and was hired as an associate after being called to the bar.
The firm has offices in Toronto, Barrie, Hamilton, Kitchener-Waterloo, St. Catharines and Sault Ste. Marie, and its lawyers can meet clients at one of those offices, at the hospital or at home. Consultations are always free, and the firm commits to charging no upfront legal fees until a case concludes successfully. The line is open 24/7 at 1-866-685-3311.
John McLeish and Dale Orlando first worked together in 1994, when McLeish was already a prominent personal injury lawyer and Orlando was still articling. In 1999 the two founded McLeish Orlando, determined to build a personal injury firm in Ontario. They were prepared to pay thousands of dollars for expert reports upfront, out of their own pockets, when a case needed it.
Patrick Brown, an established litigator, joined them soon after. John McLeish, Dale Orlando and Patrick Brown have each served as president of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, and in 2000 OTLA established the John A. McLeish Award.
McLeish Orlando has obtained awards and settlements for clients whose spinal cord injuries, complete or incomplete, led to hemiplegia, paraplegia and quadriplegia, after car crashes, gymnastics and diving accidents, and cycling collisions. To project what an injured person will need in the years ahead, it relies on medical specialists working alongside certified life care planners. For people living with a brain injury, it has compiled a Brain Injury Community Resources Guide listing organizations across Canada that offer ongoing support.
In no-fault accident benefits claims, the firm's lawyers work to make sure clients who qualify for the higher level of protection get the catastrophic designation. Getting there often means a hearing before an adjudicator for a catastrophic determination.
In disability insurance disputes, the firm has acted for physicians, teachers, lawyers and business executives, among others, under both any-occupation policies and lifetime own-occupation coverage.
Fatal claims the firm has handled include deaths on the road (car and trucking crashes), in nursing homes and daycare, in boating accidents and through medical malpractice. McLeish Orlando commits to pursuing and settling wrongful death actions as quickly as is reasonably possible, so clients can get compensation and move forward. Kate Hunter was most recently lead counsel at a 10-day coroner's inquest into a death inside a psychiatric facility.
McLeish Orlando has successfully represented many plaintiffs in complex, highly technical malpractice cases, where the question is whether the care given by doctors, nurses, chiropractors or midwives fell below the acceptable standard.
In a child's injury claim, the firm gathers evidence such as the child's interests and aptitudes before the accident, school and social achievements, and how far parents and siblings went in education and work. It retains specialists such as paediatric neurologists and psychoeducational consultants to compare the likely schooling path before the injury with the one that follows it.
Recoveries in sports cases have come from ski resorts, mountain biking facilities, sports teams, gyms and coaching associations, for clients ranging from beginners to Olympic-level athletes.
McLeish Orlando's cycling lawyers are founders of, or active in, groups including the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, Friends & Families for Safe Streets and the Bike Law Network of Cycling Lawyers. They initiated the Coroner's Cycling Death Review and took part in it pro bono.
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Free consultationHiring McLeish Orlando makes someone a client of the whole firm, not just one lawyer. Its practice is to prepare each case for trial from day one while looking several steps ahead, and everyone it agrees to represent signs a contingency fee retainer.
Decades of client work have built the firm a large network of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, psychologists and other medical and rehabilitation professionals, with the aim of helping clients get back to the lives they had before the injury.
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The main office is at 151 Yonge Street, Suite 1800, in downtown Toronto, just across the street from the Eaton Centre.
In Hamilton, the consultation office is at One Hunter Street East, Suite G100, a professionally managed building in the Corktown neighbourhood. The building has a Walk Score of 100 and good transit access, with the Hamilton GO Centre nearby.
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