Sarah focuses her practice on commercial litigation and professional liability and regulation. Sarah acts for a broad range of clients including large and small companies, institutions, government entities and professionals. She has appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and various administrative tribunals. She has also acted as counsel in complex commercial arbitration matters and inquests. 

Before co-founding Corman Feiner LLP, Sarah was a partner in the litigation group at McCarthy Tétrault LLP, where she practised for 12 years following her call to the bar in 2004.

Sarah has acted for major mining companies, power generators, global software development firms, insurers, investors, contractors and government entities in complex project disputes. She is experienced in acting for companies in breach of contract, negligence, competition/antitrust, regulatory and environmental cases. She also has the rare experience of having acted on both sides of class actions: as defence counsel and as class counsel. Sarah’s class actions experience includes competition/anti-trust, product liability, pharmaceutical and consumer protection cases.  Sarah is a co-author of the text Defending Class Actions in Canada: A Guide for Defendants, 4th Edition, published in 2015.

Professional liability and regulation is also at the core of Sarah’s practice. She has extensive experience defending health professionals in high stakes negligence proceedings and before their regulatory bodies. Sarah acts for dealer firms and regulated professionals in Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC) and Mutual Fund Dealers Association (MFDA) proceedings and for accountants, engineers and other professionals in civil and regulatory proceedings.

Sarah is an active teacher of legal advocacy, serving as an Adjunct Professor in the Competitive Mooting Program and a member of the Faculty in the Upper Year Trial Advocacy Course at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Sarah also enjoys her role as an active mentor to young lawyers and law students.  

Sarah received her BA (Hons.) in Philosophy and History from Queen’s University and her JD from the University of Toronto. Sarah spent a semester studying law on an exchange program at the National University of Singapore.

She articled as a law clerk for the Chief Justice and the Judges of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. She received her LLM with a Specialization in Civil Litigation and Dispute Resolution from Osgoode Hall Law School. 

Sarah currently serves on the Executive of the Board of Directors of YWCA Canada and previously served on the YWCA Toronto Board for six years and as Chair of the Nominating Committee.

Throughout her legal career, Sarah has performed a range of pro bono work, including representing the Canadian Civil Liberties Association at the Supreme Court of Canada and assisting individual litigants through the Pro Bono Ontario clinic at the Superior Court in Toronto. In law school, Sarah spent hundreds of hours volunteering as a case worker and member of the Executive of Downtown Legal Services.

In 2012, Sarah received the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Wilson-Prichard Award for professional excellence and community service and in 2010 received an Arbor Award for her volunteer service to the University of Toronto. 

Sarah is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Advocates’ Society, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Ontario Bar Association. She is a past elected member of the Executive of the Civil Litigation Section of the Ontario Bar Association. Sarah is also a Certified Sommelier (Court of Master Sommeliers) and a member of the Guild of Sommeliers.

Co-author with Anastasia-Maria Hountalas, “What is a New Cause of Action? Post-Limitation Amendments to Pleadings,” Annual Review of Civil Litigation (Carswell), 2017

Co-author, Defending Class Actions in Canada: A Guide for Defendants, 4th Edition (Toronto: LexisNexis), 2015

Co-author with Christine Wadsworth, "Recent Developments in Competition Private Actions," Annual Review of Civil Litigation (Carswell), 2014

Co-author with Shaun Finn, "The Impact of the Indirect Purchaser Trilogy," Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (CCCA) Magazine, Spring 2014

“More Class Action Trials in Canada?” Class Actions Monitor, March 20, 2014

"Arbitration Clauses: Drafting for Cost Control," Canadian Corporate Counsel Association (CCCA) Magazine, Winter 2013

Co-Author with Emily Rix, "The New Landscape for Competition Private Actions," Annual Review of Civil Litigation (Carswell), 2009

Hilary focuses her practice on commercial litigation and regulatory compliance including real property, shareholder, privacy and complex contractual disputes. Prior to joining Corman Feiner as an Associate, Hilary articled at a leading national law firm where she gained experience in complex commercial litigation and international arbitration. During her articles, she completed a secondment in the regulatory group at Rogers. 

Hilary attended McGill University where she graduated with Distinction and First Class Joint Honours in Political Science and History. She received her JD from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, where she mooted competitively and won an award for best appellant’s factum. She also co-chaired the Faculty’s Women & Law group, and won the Judy LaMarsh course prize in Feminist Analysis of the Law. Hilary spent a semester of her legal studies on exchange at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and a semester of her undergraduate studies on exchange at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

While studying at law school, Hilary spent her summers working on land claims implementation litigation, assisting counsel to the legal representative of the Inuit of Nunavut.

Hilary loves advocacy and assists the Instructors with the U of T Faculty of Law Upper Year Trial Advocacy course. 

Hilary is fluently bilingual in French and English and was called to the bar in 2017. 

Hilary enjoys legal writing and has a recent publication as a co-author in the Banking and Finance Law Review and a recent publication in the Canadian Family Law Quarterly. While articling, Hilary co-authored and submitted a Brief of Law to the Supreme Court of India on legal mechanisms available in Canada to address cyberbullying and the non-consensual distribution of intimate images, which won the Thomson Reuters Foundation TrustLaw Collaboration Award in 2017 for outstanding Pro Bono work. 

Jeffrey has a broad range of experience in commercial litigation, health law, professional liability and regulation, and administrative law. He has conducted trials, arbitrations, and hearings for institutions, large and small corporate clients and individuals. Jeff’s clients have trusted him to advise them on the optimal way forward through a dispute, whether this means advancing a position through to trial or finding an acceptable negotiated resolution.

Prior to co-founding Corman Feiner LLP, Jeff was Counsel in McCarthy Tétrault’s Litigation Group, where he practised for 11 years following his call to the bar in 2005.  He continues to focus his practice on commercial litigation and professional liability and regulation.

Jeffrey's commercial litigation experience is wide-ranging and includes contractual and shareholder disputes, product liability, class actions, franchise and dealer disputes, injunctions and fraud recovery, banking litigation, liability of educational institutions, regulatory offences, and real property. Jeff's recent experience includes successfully advancing and defending shareholder disputes, breach of contract claims, and multi-million dollar real property litigation. He has represented financial institutions in negligence, fraud, and conversion claims and Fortune 500 companies in "bet the company" litigation. He has experience in injunction and licencing disputes, subrogated claims, and class actions. Jeff helps institutional clients navigate some of the potential pitfalls and reputational risk that can accompany publicized litigation.

Jeffrey has significant experience acting for physicians in a wide range of litigation and regulatory matters, including trials and discipline proceedings at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario.  He assists physicians with complaints, hospital privileges disputes, quality of care reviews, inquests, administrative appeals, investigations, peer assessments and appearances before the Quality Assurance Committee.  

Jeff graduated from McGill University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy and Linguistics and his Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) and Bachelor of Laws (LLB). He spent one semester of his legal studies on exchange at the University of Copenhagen. Jeff articled at McCarthy Tétrault and spent a portion of his articling year on secondment to the Ontario Securities Commission, where he assisted in the prosecution of enforcement proceedings. He was called to the bar in 2005.

Jeff currently serves as the Past-Chair of White Ribbon, the world’s largest movement of men and boys working to eliminate gender-based violence against women and girls, where he has served as a Director since 2014. Jeff has donated hundreds of hours of his time to various political, charitable, and pro bono activities, including providing litigation services to local community organizations.

While studying law at McGill University, Jeff served as President of the Law Students Association. He was also a producer and co-host of "LegalEase" a radio program focusing on legal issues. He maintains his connection with McGill University and served as President of the Toronto Branch of the McGill University Alumni Association. He is a past winner of the McGill Alumni Association of Toronto’s volunteer service award.

Jeff is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada, Canadian Bar Association, Ontario Bar Association, Medico-Legal Society of Toronto, Advocates’ Society, and Toronto Lawyers Association. He mentors new lawyers and law students, assists Law Faculty mooting teams, and speaks and writes on a variety of litigation topics.

Michelle focuses her practice on commercial litigation, tort claims and administrative tribunal work. Immediately prior to joining Corman Feiner as an Associate, Michelle served as a staff lawyer at the Court of Appeal for Ontario. At the Court of Appeal, Michelle assisted the Chief Justice and judges of the Court with complex legal research and editing related to civil appeals. Michelle also gained valuable experience at the trial court level by completing a judicial clerkship at the Superior Court of Justice in the busy Central West Region. While at the Superior Court, Michelle assisted with a broad range of civil, criminal, family and estates litigation matters. 

Michelle attended McMaster University where she received her BA (Hons.) in sociology, with Distinction. She received her JD from Queen’s University. Michelle was called to the bar in 2016.

While studying in law school, Michelle worked as a Research Assistant, conducting research with a sociological focus on the impact of the criminalization of breastfeeding for HIV-positive women.

Michelle has volunteered with the Welcome Inn Community Centre in Hamilton and Youth Diversion in Kingston, Ontario, assisting children and youth with academic or behavioural challenges impacting their ability to succeed in school.

In her free time, Michelle loves to get out of the city. She has undertaken a new project, combining her love of the outdoors and interest in wine, planting and cultivating a hobby vineyard in Grey County. She has planted two white wine varietals and hopes to expand to reds in the next few years. 

While working as counsel at the Court, Michelle authored and co-authored papers for judicial educational conferences on a range of criminal and civil law topics. Michelle also assisted Justice Gordon Lemon with the preparation of an article on civil motions advocacy for the Advocates Society Journal, Spring 2017 edition. 

We are first-rate litigators who know what it takes to present your case in the best possible light. We trained, and litigated for many years, at one of Canada’s top national firms and have handled some of the toughest cases. Our experience, success, and reputations as effective trial counsel give us the skills required to best position your case for trial.   

We are also effective advocates for our clients out of court. We have honed our alternative dispute resolution skills. We know how to achieve excellent settlements for our clients before litigation is commenced, in the early stages of litigation and through more complex mediation and arbitration procedures. Many clients prefer to avoid going to trial. We will work strategically and tirelessly to position your case for an excellent out-of-court resolution.

We will always take the time to understand your business and your legal problem. We will keep your business goals front-of-mind at all times and will offer our advice as to how best to avoid future litigation.

We are an agile law firm. We built our firm using the latest technologies so that we can spend our time and energy on what matters – advancing your case. Our strategic investment in technology paired with our considerable litigation experience allows us to manage your case as efficiently as possible.

We will work with our clients to tailor the best approach to meet your specific needs. Our success is measured by the success of our clients. We are invested in our clients’ goals. We are focused on results and want you to achieve these results in the quickest, most cost-effective manner possible. 

Our mission is to add value in the services we provide. Your legal solution shouldn't cost more than your business problem. Once we are retained by you, we will constantly evaluate the status of a case to ensure that the chosen approach continues to make sense from a business perspective.

We actively advise clients on litigation preparedness and how to avoid future litigation or improve your position in the event that litigation is unavoidable. We will use the knowledge we have gained about your business and/or the services you provide to offer our advice on risk management going forward.

In everything we do, we want to ensure that using us is a good use of your money and your time.

Litigation is unpredictable. That doesn’t mean your legal fees need to be. We will prepare a litigation plan and budget when we take on a new matter. We will work with you to ensure that you have a clear idea of what your legal spend is going to be prior to embarking on complex litigation.

We are also happy to work with you to arrive at an alternative fee arrangement (AFA) that provides a further measure of predictability, including fixed fees.

We will work creatively and intelligently to advance your case. We will draw upon our experience but will not default to past practices in the way we conduct your case. We will innovate to give you the best possible chance of success or to minimize your legal fees.

Our firm is built on innovation, having leveraged the latest technologies to better serve your needs. We are constantly thinking about the future of legal service delivery and always on the lookout for new approaches to serving our clients better. Although we are practitioners of a legal tradition, we are not complacent and will not stand still. 

We are community citizens. We are deeply committed to giving back to our community and do so through our volunteerism with charities and not-for-profit organizations, our teaching and our pro bono activities.

It was through early community advocacy work on behalf of students that Jeff and Sarah first became friends in 1998. Both Jeff and Sarah served as elected executives of their respective university student associations and were involved in university governance, Jeff on the McGill University Senate and Sarah on the Queen's University Board of Trustees. Their passion for community involvement has continued to this day.

Jeff has an extensive history of community involvement and service in a variety of charitable and political causes. He served as Chair of the Board of White Ribbon from 2016 to 2019. White Ribbon is a registered Canadian charity that is the world's largest movement of men and boys working to eliminate violence against women and girls. He previously served as President of the McGill University Alumni Association of Toronto. Jeff has provided pro bono legal assistance to members of the community, including assisting a local residents association in its successful efforts to preserve two historic buildings in the City of Toronto. He has also been involved in teaching his advocacy skills to law students and through various continuing education programs for lawyers.

Sarah served on the Executive of the Board of YWCA Canada, the Executive of the Board of YWCA Toronto and as Chair of its Nominating Committee. Sarah has been involved in teaching law students at the University of Toronto for many years as an Instructor in the Trial Advocacy Course and an Adjunct Professor in the Competitive Mooting Program. In 2012, she received the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Wilson-Prichard Award for professional excellence and community service and in 2010 received an Arbor Award for her volunteer service to the University of Toronto. Sarah has conducted a number of cases on a pro bono basis and has acted as counsel to the Canadian Civil Liberties Association on two interventions at the Supreme Court of Canada.