Zel Law
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Free consultationAbout Zel Law
Zel Law handles disputes over real estate, business and estates, acting for individuals and small businesses anywhere in Ontario from its Toronto base. It does civil litigation and dispute resolution and nothing else, and every matter it takes on has to be one that a provincial court can hear, or else a tribunal, a board or a self-regulatory body.
Yeliz Elénore Beygo founded the firm and is its principal lawyer, with a 2024 year of call. Beygo summered and then articled at the Crown Law Office Civil, the Ministry of the Attorney General's central litigation office, working on public-interest files there such as the Robertson class action and the Connor Homes appeal. Beygo has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, including the Civil Practice Court, the Estates List and the Small Claims Court, and has dealt with administrative boards and tribunals such as the Landlord and Tenant Board and the License Appeal Tribunal, as well as self-regulatory authorities.
Beygo started Zel Law with the "missing middle" in mind. That's the group of Ontarians who are too well off to get legal aid, yet can't pay for a lawyer at a firm that bills the classic "Bay Street" way.
Your first 30 minutes with Zel Law cost nothing. That consultation can happen by phone or videoconference, or in person by appointment.
History
The firm's name is built from its founder's own. "Zel" joins the "Z" in "Yeliz" with the "El" in "Elénore" to evoke the word "zealous," a legal ethics term for a lawyer's strong and diligent advocacy for a client's lawful interests.
Practice areas
Real property and real estate disputes
Across Ontario, the firm acts in real property litigation for owners and co-owners, buyers, landlords and tenants, and small businesses. On the residential side, its matters run from partition and sale of jointly owned property and agreements of purchase and sale to real estate fraud and condo disputes. Questions about boundaries, fences and easements are part of that work too.
Residential and commercial tenancies
Beygo has experience with landlord and tenant conflicts, whether residential or commercial. The firm also takes on administrative matters before boards and tribunals, for example the Landlord and Tenant Board.
Business and commercial disputes
On the business side, Zel Law's clients run from sole proprietors and small businesses to regulated professionals, with franchisees, contractors, shareholders and partners among them. Commercial contract claims and unpaid invoices come up, as do conflicts among shareholders or business partners. It also deals with matters involving contractors, subcontractors or suppliers. Commercial leases, licensing for professionals and businesses, and franchise relationships round out the work. Beygo has experience in shareholder conflicts and in cases that involve closely held businesses.
Wills, estates and capacity disputes
In estate and capacity matters, the firm's clients include beneficiaries, dependants and estate trustees. It also acts for guardians and for attorneys for property or personal care, among other interested parties. Among the disputes it handles are will challenges, probate proceedings and the passing of accounts. Others involve powers of attorney, dependant support, guardianship or capacity. For dependant support, Beygo's experience includes cases with surviving spouses and adult children, beneficiaries whose interests compete, and the question of whether an estate's support is adequate. Will challenges in that experience involve testamentary capacity, undue influence and suspicious circumstances. They also involve whether a will is valid and how it should be read. With powers of attorney, the experience extends to disputes over validity, over financial management and an attorney's decisions, and over accounting or alleged breaches of fiduciary duty.
Regulatory and professional discipline matters
Zel Law takes on regulatory proceedings before self-governing bodies such as the Regulated Insurance Brokers of Ontario. Beygo's administrative and regulatory experience also covers professional discipline.
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Free consultationHow Zel Law works
Zel Law's approach to a dispute has three parts. Each case is worked through in an orderly way, a fitting position and strategy are built around it, and the firm then bargains with the other side from a strong footing or goes to court when that's needed. The first consultation is where the firm pins down what the client wants out of the dispute, sorts out the facts and the evidence on hand, works out what stage the dispute has reached and flags deadlines that are coming up soon. After it's retained, it goes back over the facts, asks for whatever evidence exists and confirms the client's instructions so it can prepare an early analysis of the case. That review leans on the firm's own substantive and procedural frameworks to work out which remedies are open, which legal tests apply, what proof those tests call for and which procedural steps or deadlines matter most. If negotiation doesn't get the client a favourable resolution out of court, the firm takes the case to court and runs it on the client's instructions.
Litigation costs add up, so Zel Law has worked to hold its own operating costs as low and as controlled as it reasonably can. With lean overheads, its pricing stays tied to the legal work a given matter really needs. The firm is committed to transparent fees and offers flat fees where that's reasonably possible, and disbursements like process-server and court filing fees are charged at cost.
Milestones & recognition
- Beygo earned a French Common Law degree from the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law in 2022.
- In law school, Beygo competed in several moot court competitions and received the Best Oralist Award at the Gowling WLG Moot, among 16 other competing students.
In the community
- Zel Law's taxonomies lay out, in summary form, the main substantive remedies a court in Ontario can be asked to grant, with one for wills, estates and capacity litigation and another for real property and real estate litigation.
- A flowchart from the firm sets out the main points to weigh before a civil or administrative case is started at first instance, either in an Ontario provincial court or before one of the province's administrative boards or tribunals. It's built around real estate, estates and business disputes, and the taxonomies are kept in the Zel Law library.
Affiliations & connections
- L'Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Ontario: Yeliz Elénore Beygo is a member of L'Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Ontario.
- Turkish Canadian Lawyers Association: Yeliz Elénore Beygo is a member of the Turkish Canadian Lawyers Association.
Who handles what
The neighbourhood
Zel Law's office is at 180 John Street in Toronto, an eight-storey brick and beam building, formerly Urbane Cycle, that was renovated into a workspace community with co-working space, meeting rooms and private offices. Spaces opened its first Canadian location there, in Toronto's Queen Street West neighbourhood.
John Street runs north to Stephanie Street and Grange Park. A path through the park leads to The Grange, a heritage manor that's now attached to the Art Gallery of Ontario, and OCAD University is also next to the park.
Frequently asked questions
- Can Zel Law represent me in French before a tribunal or self-regulatory body?
- Yes. Zel Law offers full representation in French in front of courts, tribunals, boards and self-regulatory bodies, and it provides legal services in Turkish as well as in French.
- What does Zel Law's 1-hour legal strategy session cost?
- Clients who want more detail than the free first consultation can book a 1-hour legal strategy session for $280, which sits under the firm's flat-fee or fixed-fee retainer option. (Fees as of October 2026.)
- Can I run parts of my own lawsuit under a limited-scope retainer with the firm?
- Yes. Zel Law's limited-scope or unbundled services retainer is meant for clients who want to handle parts of the litigation process on their own. Legal services are $280 an hour and clerical work is $180 an hour, plus applicable taxes, and there's a $0 charge for internal administrative work. (Fees as of October 2026.)
- Can I reach Zel Law on a weekday evening?
- Yes. Zel Law's work hours run Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Weekends are closed, with appointments only.
- Will Zel Law refer me to a lawyer or paralegal if it can't take my case?
- Where it reasonably can, Zel Law points you to a lawyer or paralegal the firm trusts, someone who may be able to help. That applies whether the firm decides it isn't the right fit or you choose not to hire it.
Where to find them
180 John Street, Toronto, ON M5T 1X5 · 647-806-6884
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