Shapiro LLP (Shapiro Real Estate and Business Lawyers)

About Shapiro LLP (Shapiro Real Estate and Business Lawyers)

Shapiro LLP practices real estate and business law from an office on Sheppard Avenue East in North York. The firm traces back to founder Garry Shapiro's move from Bay Street into private practice, a start that the firm says grew from a single lawyer into a team of more than twenty people. It operated for years as Shapiro Real Estate and Business Law before adopting the Shapiro LLP name, a change the firm describes as part of a commitment to sustainable growth. According to the firm's site, it has been practicing for more than 45 years and has completed more than 30,000 transactions. Garry Shapiro and Evan Shapiro are listed as senior lawyers and partners, and the firm says most of its staff have stayed for over a decade.

The practice covers residential real estate (freehold homes, condominiums, pre-construction purchases and rural properties), commercial real estate, private mortgage work for lenders, business law, and wills, estates and trusts. On the business side, the firm says it has worked with professional practices such as dental, medical, veterinary and chiropractic offices, along with hotels, restaurants, golf courses, retirement homes, wineries and gas stations. Legal services are available in English, Korean, Farsi, Mandarin, Cantonese, Portuguese, Hindi and Punjabi, and the firm offers a complimentary fifteen-minute consultation.