About Silcoff Shacter

Silcoff Shacter is a Toronto immigration and refugee law firm led by partners Maureen Silcoff and Ronald Shacter. Silcoff was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1988 and has practiced refugee and immigration law since then, including five years as a decision maker at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. Shacter holds a law degree from the University of Sherbrooke and a Master of Social Work from Fordham University, and worked as a staff immigration lawyer at Parkdale Community Legal Services from 1990 to 1997. Both are members of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers, and Silcoff served as the organization's president from 2019 to 2021.

The firm's five lawyers handle the full range of immigration and refugee work: work permits, study permits, sponsorships, citizenship applications, and refugee claims, along with litigation before the Immigration and Refugee Board, the Federal Court, and higher courts, including public interest interventions and challenges to government policy. It conducts legal work in English and French, arranges interpreters for most other languages, and accepts legal aid certificates. In 2025, The Globe and Mail's Report on Business ranked Silcoff Shacter first among Canada's immigration law firms in its Canada's Best Lawyers rankings.

In the community

  • Maureen Silcoff is Lawyer in Residence at Toronto Metropolitan University's Lincoln Alexander School of Law, where Silcoff designed and teaches courses on public interest litigation and the business of lawyering.
  • Silcoff co-founded the Jewish Refugee Action Network and chairs the Refugee Lawyers Association's Access to Justice Committee.
  • Silcoff was a founding steering committee member of the Canada-US Border Rights Clinic and has held board or executive roles with the Canadian Bar Association's Immigration Law Section, the FCJ Refugee Centre, Sojourn House, and the Rexdale Community Microskills Development Centre.
  • Ronald Shacter sits on the boards of directors of the Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants and MIDAYNTA, an organization that supports Somali family reunification.
  • Adam B. Sadinsky is Vice President of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers and represents the organization on the Immigration and Refugee Board's Consultative Committee.
  • Grace Acan was president of the Canadian Association of Refugee Lawyers' student chapter at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law and worked on the school's UNHCR Legal Clinic research team.

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This firm’s lawyers at a glance

Law schools
Lincoln Alexander School of Law 1 of 5 lawyers
Languages on the roster
French

Where to find them

951 Mount Pleasant Road, Toronto, Ontario M4P 2L7

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