About Willis Business Law

Willis Business Law is a business law firm in downtown Windsor, Ontario. William J. Willis founded the firm in late 2016 and remains its founding partner. The Law Society of Ontario recognizes Willis as the only certified specialist in corporate and commercial law practicing in Windsor-Essex County. Managing partner Dina Mejalli-Willis brings 20 years of civil litigation experience to the practice, leads the firm's mediation work, and serves as its Articling Principal.

The firm's lawyers advise private and public sector clients, from small businesses to universities, hospitals, and municipalities, on business and corporate matters, on employment and labour law for employers, and on mediation. A few lawyers also handle commercial real estate transactions and estate planning within the corporate practice. The office sits in Windsor's financial district on the Detroit riverfront, and the firm describes its approach as pairing big firm professionalism with a community focused, Windsor-Essex based practice.

In the community

  • Dina Mejalli-Willis has taught Sales Law, Contract Law, Access to Justice, and Insurance Law as a sessional instructor at the University of Windsor's Faculty of Law since 2008.
  • Mejalli-Willis serves on the board of the Windsor Regional Hospital Foundation and volunteers with Lawyers Feed the Hungry.
  • William J. Willis has served as Chair of the University of Windsor's Board of Governors and previously sat on the boards of the WindsorEssex Development Corporation, United Way Centraide, and the Windsor Symphony Orchestra.
  • Willis has also taught as a sessional instructor in Securities Law and as a guest lecturer in Bankruptcy and Insolvency and Contract Law at the University of Windsor.

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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
1976–2005 · median 34 years in practice 3 of 13 lawyers
Law schools
University of Windsor (2) 2 of 13 lawyers

Where to find them

1 Riverside Dr W, Suite 503, Windsor, ON N9A 5K3 · 519-945-5470

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