Morris + Stoltz + Evans LLP

About Morris + Stoltz + Evans LLP

Morris + Stoltz LLP is a small Toronto firm that limits its practice entirely to medical negligence, health law, and patient advocacy. Its only office is at 480 University Avenue in downtown Toronto. The firm's name traces back to founding partner Jillian Evans, who left after nearly eight years to join the Office of the Children's Lawyer. The firm continues under Ken Morris and Lori Stoltz, joined by Kelly Hayden and Michael Hodgins. Together the four lawyers represent patients, healthcare providers, and advocacy organizations in matters that range from surgical and diagnostic negligence claims to professional discipline hearings and public health policy questions.

Ken Morris has focused on medical malpractice actions since 2003, after starting a career at McCarthy Tetrault LLP defending physicians in malpractice cases. Before practising law, Morris played basketball professionally in Europe for two years after being named an All-Canadian in both basketball and academics at the University of British Columbia. Lori Stoltz has spent more than 25 years acting for patients and health system participants, co-authored a 2008 book on Ontario's public health law, and has appeared as an intervenor before the Supreme Court of Canada as well as counsel in a judicial review application before the European Court of Justice. The firm takes cases on contingency, with fees that range from 25 percent to 35 percent depending on the case. (Fees as of August 2026.)