Traction Legal
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About Traction Legal
Traction Legal is a Toronto construction law practice built around a single lawyer, Webnesh Haile, who set it up to offer fractional and project-based legal support rather than a traditional full-time retainer. The firm covers the construction project lifecycle: procurement and tender review, contract drafting and negotiation, on-project legal support during delivery, and dispute avoidance and resolution. Clients have included public, non-profit, and commercial owners, developers, general contractors, subcontractors, and sureties, on projects that have ranged from CAD$15 million to CAD$6 billion across infrastructure, affordable housing, commercial, and industrial work.
Before founding the firm, Haile practiced construction law at two national firms that Chambers and Partners ranks Band 1 for construction law, and still collaborates with law firms on individual files. Haile has been recognized in Best Lawyers in Canada for Construction Law every year since 2021 and was named an Associate to Watch for Construction Law in Chambers Canada, Canada's Leading Lawyers for Business. Haile holds a Bachelor of Science and a Juris Doctor from the University of Toronto and was called to the Ontario bar in 2016.
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In the community
- Haile serves as a volunteer board member for Habitat for Humanity GTA.
- Haile lectures annually on construction contracting at Toronto Metropolitan University's Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science.
- Haile is a member of the Advocates' Society, the Ontario Bar Association's construction and infrastructure law section, and the Canadian Bar Association's Construction Law Section, and was formerly a volunteer with the University of Toronto Alumni Association.
- Haile has been quoted as a construction law commentator in the Daily Commercial News, discussing how in-house and external counsel can work together on a project.
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250 University Ave, Suite 200, Toronto, ON M5H 3E5 · 416-557-0697
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