WEL Partners
Automatically compiled listing. Details may contain errors.11 lawyers · City of Toronto
One of 2,273 law firms listed in Toronto, and one of 508 handling Wills, Estates & Trusts.
About WEL Partners
WEL Partners, formally Whaley Estate Litigation Partners and practising as WEL Professional Corporation, is a Toronto firm that handles only estate, trust and capacity litigation across Ontario. Kimberly Whaley founded the firm in 2005 and is still a managing partner, now alongside Bryan Gilmartin, who joined as a summer student and became Co-Managing Partner after the 2020 call to the bar. The team also includes a partner, several lawyers, firm counsel and law clerks, working out of a single office on St. Clair Avenue West in midtown Toronto.
The docket covers will and estate disputes, passing of accounts, capacity and guardianship proceedings, power of attorney disputes, dependant support claims, elder financial abuse, Consent and Capacity Board matters, and estate mediation and arbitration. Canadian Lawyer Magazine has included WEL Partners among Canada's Top 10 Wills, Trusts and Estates boutique firms, and the firm also appears in Best Lawyers, Chambers Canada, Lexpert and Martindale Hubbell listings. For estate planning and administration work, which WEL Partners itself doesn't handle, the firm refers clients to an associated practice, Gertzbein Law.
Practice areas
In the community
- Kimberly Whaley served as Co-Civilian Chair of the Toronto Police Service's Seniors Community Consultative Committee, which developed public resource brochures on elder abuse and senior isolation.
- Kimberly Whaley is a CanAge Fellow, a role with Canada's national seniors' advocacy organization.
- Kimberly Whaley has taught as an adjunct professor at Queen's University, the University of Toronto and Western University.
- Kimberly Whaley co-edits the Estates and Trusts Journal for Carswell, Thomson Reuters Canada.
Good to know
Wheelchair accessibleLawyers 11
Albert H. Oosterhoff
Firm Counsel
Bryan Gilmartin
Co-Managing Partner
Emily Caza
Lawyer
Gabriella Banhara
Lawyer
Grant Swedak
Lawyer
John E. S. Poyser
Senior Litigation Lawyer
Wills, Estates & Trusts
Kimberly A. Whaley
Founding Partner
Mark Handelman
Firm Counsel
Mark Polese
Lawyer
Wills, Estates & Trusts
Nima Hojjati
Partner
Oliver O'Brien
Lawyer
Certified Specialists
A designation granted by the Law Society of Ontario, not a self-declared area of focus.
This firm’s lawyers at a glance
- Called to the bar
- 1966–2025 · median 24 years in practice 4 of 11 lawyers
- Law schools
- Bora Laskin Faculty of Law, Lakehead University, Queen's University 2 of 11 lawyers
- Languages on the roster
- Farsi, French
Who handles what
Where to find them
45 St. Clair Ave. West, Suite 600 Toronto, Ontario, M4V 1K9 · 416-925-7400
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