We are delighted to welcome Toronto criminal defence lawyer, Matthew Friedberg to our website. Mr. Friedberg is a founding partner of Caramanna, Friedberg LLP. and has over seventeen years of experience representing those charged with criminal offences. His practice is devoted exclusivley to criminal law. To read more about Mr. Friedberg’s experience and how he can help you, please see his listing within the Top Toronto Criminal Defence Lawyers section of our website. Continue reading …

We are delighted to welcome Toronto personal injury lawyer, Brian Goldfinger to our website. Mr. Goldfinger is the founder of Goldfinger Law and has been representing accident victims, their families and disability claimants since his call to the Bar in 2004. His practice is devoted exclusively to Plaintiff personal injury law. To learn more about Brian’s experience and how he can help you, please see his listing within the Top Toronto Personal Injury Lawyers section of our website. Continue reading …

So, as you may have read in an earlier blog post, we launched the latest addition to our lawyer directory arsenal at the end of September. Since then we have welcomed several new members and I thought I’d take a moment to update our visitors on the action at our sister site, FindLocalLawyers.ca. We have welcomed: Continue reading …

It’s pretty competitive out there – Particularly in those “consumer-centric” areas of law. Personal injury lawyers, family law lawyers and criminal defence lawyers, to name a few, know being visible online is a critical component to an overall marketing strategy. Our clients hold, as members in our Top Lawyers Canada directory, enviable positions in search for queries seeking top lawyers to assist people with their legal situations. You are probably also aware of our related, municipally focused, sister websites such as Top Toronto Lawyers and Top Ottawa Lawyers and the unparalleled visibility they are providing to our happy clients. As part of our continuing improvement and ongoing efforts to help lawyers market their practice, build their book of business and enhance their online visibility, we are pleased to announce a new, self serve, addition to the Top Lawyers’ family of Canadian lawyer directories – FindLocalLawyers.ca. Continue reading …

Links to interesting legal stories of interest from various media – September 4, 2013

• Family sues Hamilton Hospital for wrongful death
• Shoppers Drug Mart shareholders OK takeover by Loblaw
• How Wal-Mart’s Walton family holds onto their billions #Tax #estate #planning
• Toronto, Mississauga hospitals reviewing thousands of CT scans, mammograms after ‘performance issue’ with radiologist
• In wake of sex harassment allegations, RCMP drafts new code of conduct
• Insurers to pay $40-million in Quebec ice storm settlement

Links to interesting legal stories of interest from various media – August 29, 2013

• Aspiring Ottawa lawyer awarded $330,000 for tripping on curb, injuring shoulder via National Post
• Lawyer who famously abandoned $200K Ferrari in Toronto flood gets ‘very generous’ deal on new sports car via National Post
• Fraser Institute report says immigrants, refugees impose ‘fiscal burden’ on Canada, urges reform via National Post
• Court rules against B.C. polygamous leader, issues $150,000 in penalties via National Post
• Tax auditors target condo sellers in hunt for ‘flippers’ says tax lawyer via TheStar.com

Links to interesting legal stories of interest from various media – August 19, 2013

• Canada Post pay equity case: Cheques finally being mailed – The Star
• Soothing the aggressive attorney – The Star
• Toronto police officer charged in Sammy Yatim shooting to turn himself in Tuesday – Globe and Mail
• Seniors in limbo over physiotherapy costs – Toronto Sun
• Cable out? Please stop calling 911, police say… even if you’re missing Breaking Bad – National Post
• Why you should trademark your business name – Financial Post

Little chance for fairness: The top eight reasons medical malpractice victims don’t receive compensation – By Alan Shanoff, Toronto Sun Alan Shanoff is a lawyer and regular columnist at the Toronto Sun. He writes about legal matters from a consumer perspective in a wonderfully accessible manner. In this weeks column, he discusses the difficulties victims of medical malpractice face in pursuing a claim. Reference is made to a book written by Halifax medical malpractice lawyer, John A. McKiggan. It is available for download from their website.

The Toronto personal injury lawyers at JEWELL RADIMISIS JORGE LL.P., on behalf of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (OTLA), is hosting the Bike Helmets on Kids Event on June 10, 2013 at 10:00 a.m. at the Jane and Finch Community Centre. Aside from traumatic brain injury (TBI) victims and their families, perhaps no one else is as keenly aware of the devastating, lasting, impact of TBI as the personal injury lawyers that represent them. Admirably, perhaps no other group is as dedicated and committed to brain injury prevention initiatives as members of the Personal Injury Bar in Ontario and across Canada. Continue reading …

When it comes to client development, local search for lawyers is where you want to be. I would encourage every lawyer and/or law firm to take advantage of the local search offerings from Google and Bing. Additionally, some of the best “Bang-for-your-buck” can be found by listing with online lawyer directories organized by city and practice. Examples include our https://toplawyerscanada.ca and our related, municipal sister sites: http://toptorontolawyers.ca, http://topvancouverlawyers.ca, and http://topcalgarylawyers.ca. Contact us today to give your online profile the boost it needs. 416-988-4529 or toll free at 1-888-645-5228

Top Lawyers Canada welcomes top Toronto criminal defence lawyer, David M, Cohn. Mr. Cohn has over 30 years of experience as a Toronto criminal lawyer. He is widely regarded amongst his peers as an “A-List” member of the Defence Bar. He is listed in the Top Toronto Criminal Defence Lawyers section of TopLawyersCanada.ca and the Top Toronto Criminal Lawyers section of TopTorontoLawyers.ca.

Like your Mom, Google just wants what is best for you. As a lawyer, you have a very real need to know and accurately measure how you and your firm rank in search in relationship to your peers. Google’s Personalized Search Results may give you a false sense of your true standings. In late 2009, Google announced it was extrapolating “Personalized Search Results” from its signed-in users to its signed-out users as well. Search results are now colored by the Web History of signed in users and the data within a cookie cataloging the search queries of the past 180 days of signed out users. (Unless you specifically opt-out.) Earlier this month, Google told us about Search plus Your World which will also influence your search results. (Unless you specifically opt-out.) Continue reading …

We are very pleased to learn that as of November 25, 2011, traffic to http://toptorontolawyers.ca has been independently verified by Alexa, through websitegrader.com, to be in the top 31.4% of ALL websites! See screen capture of this segment of the report here. Alexa is a respected online service that measures traffic to the millions of sites on the Internet. We continually endeavor to enhance the online visibility for the top lawyers that list with us. We are working towards achieving this same, and hopefully even greater, traffic / “eyeballs” across our entire Top Lawyers family of websites including: – http://topvancouverlawyers.ca – http://topcalgarylawyers.ca – http://topottawalawyers.ca – https://toplawyerscanada.ca If you meet our strict listing requirements and would like to list on TopTorontoLawyers.ca or any of our sister sites, call Jim at (Local) 416-988-4529 (Toll free) 1-888-645-5228 or email info@toplawyerscanada.ca.