St. Lawrence Barristers PC

About St. Lawrence Barristers PC

St. Lawrence Barristers PC is a small litigation firm at 33 Britain Street in Toronto's Moss Park neighbourhood. Alexi Wood, the firm's founding lawyer, was called to the Ontario bar in 2007 and has taught tort law as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law since 2012. The firm now has about nine lawyers who appear as trial and appellate counsel before every level of court in Canada and before numerous administrative tribunals. Its practice spans civil and commercial litigation, health law, media and defamation law, privacy, education law, professional regulation, not-for-profit governance, and administrative and constitutional law, with a particular focus on civil sexual assault and harassment claims.

The firm runs its practice without paper files and describes itself as a workplace built around a hands-on mentorship model, hiring one or two first-year law students each year rather than recruiting upper-year candidates. It also states three guiding commitments: reconciliation (it notes its Toronto office sits on the traditional territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishnabeg, Chippewa, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat peoples), equality, diversity and inclusion, and environmental sustainability.