Rgenesis Legal

About Rgenesis Legal

Rgenesis Legal is a business law firm working out of a single office in Toronto. Founder and principal lawyer Lydia Pilch was called to the Ontario bar in 2006 and spent time in private practice at Toronto law firms before serving as Chief Privacy Officer at Goldman Sloan Nash and Haber for 12 years. Pilch established Rgenesis to focus on commercial leasing and real estate, along with general corporate and commercial work and privacy and information technology law.

The firm bills differently than many peers. It leans on flat rates, fixed fees and volume pricing instead of the hourly model, aiming for cost certainty on a matter before the work begins. Rgenesis also describes itself as a service aggregator: for matters that call for more than legal advice, such as accounting, financing, insurance or a real estate agency, it assembles a team from a network of outside professionals rather than keeping every specialty in house.

In late 2022, Rgenesis represented the owner of the Real McCoy, a Scarborough burger restaurant that had operated for more than 50 years, after the plaza that housed it was slated for redevelopment into a condo tower. Pilch reviewed the lease and argued it had been improperly terminated, and the dispute ended in an amicable settlement rather than in court.