Rayman Harris LLP

About Rayman Harris LLP

Rayman Barristers LLP is a Toronto litigation firm built around expropriation law and property rights, working from an office on The Esplanade near the city's downtown waterfront. The firm traces back to Rayman Beitchman LLP, practised for several years as Rayman Harris LLP starting in 2022, and now operates under the Rayman Barristers name. Its lawyers have worked on more than 1,150 expropriation files for clients that include multinational corporations, farmers, property developers, homeowners, municipalities and small businesses, and the firm also advises expropriating authorities on the other side of the table.

Founding partner Shane Rayman earned a law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1999 and was called to the Ontario bar in 2001. Rayman was senior counsel for the appellant in Antrim Truck Centre v. Ontario (Ministry of Transportation), where the Supreme Court of Canada issued a unanimous decision in the property owner's favour, and has since acted as intervenor counsel for the Canadian Home Builders' Association in later Supreme Court cases on property rights. The firm's expropriation work has touched major Ontario infrastructure, including the Ontario Line, Highway 413 and several Metrolinx transit expansions, and its expropriation practice was ranked Tier 1 in the 2026 Best Lawyers Best Law Firms rankings.