About Steinecke Maciura LeBlanc

Steinecke Maciura LeBlanc (SML) is a Toronto law firm that has practiced exclusively in professional regulation since it was founded in 1997 by Richard Steinecke and Julie Maciura. The firm's clients are the regulators themselves, the colleges, boards and associations that license and discipline professionals across Ontario, rather than the practitioners those bodies oversee. SML's office is in the Simpson Tower at 401 Bay Street in downtown Toronto.

The firm has grown to about 15 lawyers who work as general counsel, prosecutors and independent legal counsel for regulators, and who also provide education, training and governance advice. Partner Bernard LeBlanc and founder Julie Maciura both hold Law Society of Ontario certified specialist designations, and the firm's lawyers have co-authored reference texts used across the field, including A Complete Guide to the Regulated Health Professions Act and The Annotated Statutory Powers Procedure Act. SML has also published Grey Areas, a newsletter tracking regulatory law developments, since July 1992. It now goes out ten to twelve times a year to more than 1,500 subscribers.

In the community

  • SML lawyers regularly teach and speak at national regulatory education events, including the Canadian Network of Agencies for Regulation and the Council on Licensure, Enforcement and Regulation.
  • Partner Bernard LeBlanc co-chairs the Osgoode Certificate in Professional Regulation and Discipline in the Health Care Sector.
  • A partner at the firm serves as an elected Bencher of the Law Society of Ontario and as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law.
  • The firm maintains the Regulation Pro Blog, publishing one or two posts a week on court decisions and other developments affecting regulated professions.

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This firm’s lawyers at a glance

Law schools
Osgoode Hall Law School, Queen's University, University of New Brunswick, University of Ottawa, University of Toronto, University of Windsor 6 of 14 lawyers
Languages on the roster
French

Where to find them

401 Bay Street, Suite 2308, Toronto, Ontario M5H 2Y4 · 416-599-2200

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