Experience
Our Toronto based lawyers have many years of experience in Courts in Toronto and across Ontario. We are frequently consulted and retained by other lawyers as litigation counsel. Over the last several years, more than 200 lawyers and other professionals have referred complex litigation and family cases to us.
Litigation & Dispute Resolution Services
Ellyn Law LLP provides comprehensive litigation services. Sound advice, effective strategy and negotiations and experienced advocacy are the hallmarks of our approach to each case. We understand and apply ADR (Alternative Dispute Resolution) methods wherever possible to reduce the time and cost of obtaining the best possible result for our client.
Canadian Business Legal Checkup
Ellyn Law LLP has developed a new legal service which will provide an audit of legal matters affecting small and medium sized businesses. Canadian Business Legal Checkup is a diagnostic tool small and medium size businesses could use to verify if legal aspects of their operation comply with the law and also, to minimize risk, litigation and expense. When the Business Legal Checkup is completed, the business owner receives a lawyer’s report red-flagging matters which need correction, improvement or further legal advice. Please see our recent article on this topic in the Articles section of our website, entitled “The Business Legal Checkup: Preventive advice for the legal health of your Business”.
News
In this section, we highlight developments in our firm. In addition to the matters listed here, our lawyers achieve regularly results for our clients. Subject to confidentiality and privacy law considerations, we refer to some of our successes in the Recent Cases section of our website.
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December 2011:
Orie Niedzviecki, Evelyn Perez Youssoufian and Igor Ellyn, QC, CS, all of Ellyn Law LLP Business Litigation and Arbitration Lawyers, Toronto, Canada, have published an article entitled Arbitrator lacks jurisdiction to make injunction orders affecting third parties in the latest issue of the Canadian Journal of Arbitration & Mediation. The articles discusses an important recent decision of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice on which lawyers of Ellyn Law LLP were counsel. The article may be downloaded from the firm’s website, www.ellynlaw.com.
November 2011: The lawyers of Ellyn Law LLP Business Litigation and Arbitration Lawyers, Toronto (Igor Ellyn, QC, CS, FCIArb., Orie Niedzviecki, Evelyn Perez Youssoufian, Belinda Schubert and Lauren Lackie) are authors of the Canada chapter of International Liability of Corporate Directors to be published by Juris Publishing and Yorkhill Press in 2012. Lauren Lackie was the co-ordinator editor of the project to which all members of the firm participated. Ellyn Law LLP is a boutique firm which specializes in business litigation and arbitration. Members of Ellyn Law LLP are also authors of other publications on business law, including Shareholders Remedies in Canada, Enforcement of Money Judgments (Canada chapter). See www.ellynlaw.com for more information.
October 2011: Igor Ellyn, QC, CS and Belinda Schubert of Ellyn Law LLP Business Litigation and Arbitration Lawyers, Toronto, Canada presented a paper entitled How to Make In-Trial Objections Less Objectionable to the 8th Annual Conference on Evidence for the Civil Litigator . The program was sponsored by Osgoode Professional Development Centre of this article is available at www.ellynlaw.com.
September 2011:Igor Ellyn, QC, CS, FCIArb., Senior Partner of Ellyn Law LLP Business Litigation and Arbitration Lawyers, Toronto, attended the 8th Annual Convention of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms, (www.inblf.com) held at the Concorde-Opera Hotel, Paris, France. At the Black Tie Dinner, Igor Ellyn was honoured by the INBLF for his work in helping to establish the Business Litigation & Arbitration Practice Group, of which he is the Chairman. Ellyn Law LLP is the INBLF Toronto-designated firm in Shareholder Disputes and International Commercial Arbitration.
April 2011:Ellyn Law LLP Business Litigation and Arbitration Lawyers is growing again. We are pleased to announce that Lauren Lackie has joined our firm as an associate. Belinda is a graduate magna cum laude of Columbia University and of the Faculty of Law of the University of Toronto. She practiced commercial litigation and class actions with another Toronto law firm before coming to Ellyn Law LLP. Ellyn Law LLP’s litigation and arbitration group now includes Partners Igor Ellyn, QC, CS and Orie Niedzviecki and Associates Evelyn Perez Youssoufian, Belinda Schubert and Lauren Lackie. More information about Lauren Lackie and other lawyers of Ellyn Law LLP are available at www.ellynlaw.com/lawyers_ellynlaw.htm.
October
2010: Ellyn Law LLP Business Litigation and Arbitration Lawyers is growing. We are pleased to announce that Belinda Elisa Schubert has joined our firm as an associate. Belinda is a graduate magna cum laude of Princeton University and the Faculty of Law of the University of British Columbia. She brings a broad range of business and human rights interests and experience to our firm which are ideally suited to the services Ellyn Law LLP's clients require. Ellyn Law LLP's litigation and arbitration team now includes Partners Igor Ellyn, QC, CS and Orie Niedzviecki and Associates Evelyn Perez Youssoufian and Belinda Elisa Schubert. More information about Belinda Schubert and other lawyers of Ellyn Law LLP are available at www.ellynlaw.com/lawyers_ellynlaw.htm.
October
2010: Ellyn Law LLP Business Litigation and Arbitration Lawyers, Toronto,
Canada, posts articles and news events on www.jdsupra.com. The JDSupra site provides an opportunity to inform other
professionals and prospective clients about Canadian law and the services Ellyn Law
LLP provides. With the development of the internet and social networking, business
people and professionals rely increasingly on the internet to
identify resources. Ellyn Law LLP’s articles are intended to inform about our areas of
expertise. And it
works. Business
clients and other lawyers in Canada, USA, Europe and around the
globe have contacted us on business, shareholder, estate, judgment
enforcement and internet defamation cases. Some of these contacts are shown on the interactive at www.ellynlaw.com.
JDSupra is now affiliated with www.linkedin.com. Ellyn Law LLP lawyers are on Linked In
September 2010: Igor Ellyn, Senior partner of Ellyn Law LLP Business Litigation and
Arbitration Lawyers, Toronto, Canada, is now on www.twitter.com. You can follow us @ElllynLawLLP. Our posts touch on business litigation topics of current interest
and sometimes on Toronto sports. Activities of EllynLawLLP are also mentioned.
August 2010: For the second year, Ellyn
Law LLP Business Litigation and Arbitration Lawyers, Toronto,
Canada, appears as one of four Canadian law firms listed in the
international directory of the Law Society Gazette of England and
Wales. Distributed
to more than 117,000 solicitors and other professionals, the Law
Society Gazette
enables legal professionals in the United Kingdom to familiarize
themselves with services offered by Ellyn Law LLP, including
business litigation, foreign judgment enforcement, commercial
arbitration, estate disputes and internet defamation. Senior Partner Igor Ellyn, QC, FCIArb. Appeared as Queen’s
Counsel in the English High Court twice in 2009. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators,
based in London and a
member of the Panel of International Commercial Arbitrators of the
Canadian Chamber of Commerce. He has also been involved in a LCIA Arbitration.
October 2010: Igor Ellyn, QC, Senior
Partner of Ellyn Law LLP Business Litigation and Arbitration Lawyers
has been invited to speak at a conference sponsored by Insight
Conferences entitled COMPLEX, MEGA and ADVANCED LITIGATION. He will present a seminar on written advocacy complex trials
and hearings. Mr.
Ellyn’s colleague, J. Gardner Hodder of Hodder Barristers, will also
present at the seminar. Effective written advocacy is a critical element of the
persuasion arsenal of good counsel. Ellyn Law LLP emphasizes effective written communications as
part of its services to clients. The
presentation takes place in Toronto in March 2011.
October
2010: Igor Ellyn, QC, CS, FCIArb.,
Senior Partner of Ellyn Law LLP Business Litigation and Arbitration
Lawyers, has been appointed to the Panel of International Commercial
Arbitrators of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce (www.chamber.ca). As the Canadian National Committee to the ICC International
Court of Arbitration, the Canadian Chamber’s Arbitration Committee
maintains an extensive panel of Canada’s leading practitioners of
international arbitration. Mr.
Ellyn, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators since
2002, is experienced in many aspects of international business law,
including agency, distributorship, software, pharmaceuticals and
some aspects of European Union law. He conducts arbitrations in English and French and is also
conversant in German and Romanian. Igor Ellyn’s bio is available at http://tiny.cc/viwps.
September
2010: Ellyn Law LLP Business
Litigation and Arbitration Lawyers is a member of TCAS, the Toronto
Commercial Arbitration Society. Founded by senior commercial arbitrators and counsel in
Toronto, TCAS’s mission is to promote a world centre for arbitration
excellence in Toronto to resolve international and domestic
disputes. TCAS
promotes by providing a forum for leading practitioners of
commercial arbitration. Igor Ellyn participated in a seminar to discuss the latest
trends in December 2010.
February
2010: Ellyn Law LLP Business Litigation and Arbitration Lawyers launched
an innovative interactive map on the firm’s website.
An extension of the firm’s
motto, “Thinking Globally. Acting Locally.”, the interactive map,
found at www.ellynlaw.com/Ellyn_Law_map.html enables visitors to the website to view locations around the globe
with which the firm has had connections involving clients,
professional development or business contacts. Developed by www.maps.com,
the interactive map enables clients and other professionals to
appreciate the global reach of Ellyn Law LLP.
Ellyn Law LLP is a boutique
law firm based in Toronto, Canada and a proud member of the
International Network of Boutique Law Firms, www.inblf.com. Its senior partner, Igor Ellyn, QC, CS, FCIArb., is a member
of the Panel of International Commercial Arbitrators of the Canadian
Chamber of Commerce (www.chamber.ca).
October
2009: Igor Ellyn, QC, senior
partner of Ellyn Law LLP Business Litigation and Arbitration
Lawyers, Toronto, Canada, appeared as Queen’s Counsel in a case in
the English High Court of Justice at the Royal Courts, The Strand,
London. The case,
argued before the Hon. Mr Justice Tugendhat, considered important
issues of Canadian, English and European Union law relating to the
compensation of commercial agents. The English Court’s decision followed a lengthy arbitration
in Canada under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. The decision, which has been widely reported internationally
also focuses on the tensions applicable to selection of forum and
choice of law where mandatory statutes may be affected.
July
2009: Ellyn Law LLP has been recognized as the developer of a practice
innovation by the Lawyers Professional Indemnity Company, the
insurance program which covers all Ontario lawyers against errors
and omissions. In its July 2009 Magazine, “Changing Directions”,
LawPro author Karen Bell writes: “Igor Ellyn, QC of Ellyn Law LLP in
Toronto is a senior litigation and arbitration counsel whose firm is
developing new ways to deliver preventive law services to small and
medium-sized businesses. Over the course of his 30-year career as a
litigator, Ellyn concluded that many business litigation problems
could have been eased, settled sooner or completely avoided by
better preventive planning: better contracting drafting, better
strategy and greater client awareness of and preparation for
litigation. The result: Canadian Business Legal Checkup (BLC) – a
diagnostic audit of various aspects of the business to determine if
they are compliant with the law and practice and which need
attention. The true value of the BLC developed by Ellyn’s firm is
that it will provide input of experts from various aspect of
business law at a pre-determined cost. The BLC requires the business
owner to answer a series of questions that touch on all aspects of
the undertaking. When the BLC is completed, the business owner
receives a report red-flagging matters which need correction,
improvement or further legal advice. Clients can then take
corrective action on their own or with further guidance of counsel,
to ensure that the business is better situated to operate
effectively and minimize risk in the future – risk of litigation as
well as the significant and sometimes crushing costs that litigation
generates. For more information about Business Legal Check-up, go to www.ellynlaw.com.”
The full article is available online at www.lawpro.ca/magazinearchives.
July
2009: Ellyn Law LLP Business Litigation & Arbitration Lawyers has
emphasized “Thinking Globally. Acting Locally.” in its
approach client service around the world. During the second quarter
of 2009, the Toronto boutique law firm has been active in
international and cross-border litigation.
In June 2009, we represented a Canadian manufacturer of large scale equipment in an international dispute. The case was headed to a multi-million dollar arbitration through an international arbitration court. After intensive document preparation, strategic analysis and advocacy, followed by extensive negotiations with counsel for opposing parties, a settlement was worked out to the satisfaction of all parties.
In May 2009, Ellyn Law LLP represented business people based in New Zealand and Thailand in shareholder litigation in Canada. Presently, our firm represents corporations and their shareholders in Europe, Asia, the United States and in various parts of Canada in business and shareholder disputes. Among our cases is a shareholder dispute involving reinsurance brokerages with parties in Australia, Thailand and Canada. Other examples of the firm’s international practice appear on this news page and on other pages of www.ellynlaw.com.
July
2009: Igor Ellyn and Orie Niedzviecki, partners of Ellyn Law LLP Business
Litigation and Arbitration Lawyers, have written an article which
explains to business people the ins and outs of resolving
shareholder disputes in private corporations, which was published in
the online newsletter of the Better Business Bureau of Central and
Midwestern Ontario and sent its members. Under the title “Resolving
Shareholders Disputes in Canada: What you can reasonably expect”,
the article discusses the position of minority and majority
shareholders of Ontario corporation and what happens when as a
shareholder is treated unfairly. The article provides useful
information about the oppression remedy, breach of fiduciary duty,
shareholder meetings, derivative actions and other important as
aspects of shareholder disputes.
A copy of the article may be downloaded in the Articles Section of
www.ellynlaw.com.
July
2009: The International Network of Boutique Law Firms ("INBLF") is an
organization of highly credentialed single-discipline (boutique) law
firms, each of which, after a great deal of research, has been
identified and hand-selected as prominent in each firm's respective
field of practice. Ellyn Law LLP is the Toronto INBLF law firm in
the fields of Shareholder Disputes and International Commercial
Arbitration. An article entitled “Resolving Shareholders Disputes in
Canada” written by Igor Ellyn and Orie Niedzviecki has been
published on the INBLF website.
May
2009: Igor Ellyn, QC was winning counsel (together with Jonathan Wood of
Clyde & Co. and Barrister Peter de Verneuil Smith) in a case decided
by the United Kingdom High Court of Justice, Queen’s Bench Division
on May 27, 2009. Ellyn Law LLP’s Canadian client was sued in England
for relief was which previously been refused by an Arbitration
Tribunal in Toronto. The opposing party argued that certain issues
of European law were exclusively within the jurisdiction of the U.K.
High Court The English Court agreed with Mr. Ellyn (and our legal
team) that the case had already been fully decided in the Canadian
arbitration and granted a stay of proceedings. Mr. Ellyn will appear
as counsel in the Queen’s Bench Division of the UK Court of Justice
in October 2009.
April
2009: Senior Partner Igor Ellyn, QC has been temporarily admitted as a
Barrister in the United Kingdom and a member of the Honourable
Society of Lincoln’s Inn. Mr. Ellyn will appear in the United
Kingdom High Court of Justice as counsel on behalf a Canadian
corporation involved in complex litigation in England. His call to
English Bar will continue until the case is finished. Mr. Ellyn’s
appearance in British Court is in keeping with Ellyn Law LLP’s focus
on international business litigation and expands the firm’s motto
“Thinking Globally. Acting Locally.”
March
2009: Senior Partner Igor Ellyn, QC and Associate Evelyn Perez
Youssoufian of Ellyn LawLLP
were winning counsel in an international arbitration held in Toronto
under the Arbitration Rules of the United Nations Commission on
International Trade Law (UNCITRAL). The case, which concerned the
rights of enterprises under an international high-tech distribution
agreement, was conducted before three world-class arbitrators over
10-day period and involved issues of Canada, British and European
Union law.
March
2009: Ellyn Law LLP hosted a luncheon meeting of the prestigious NGO, The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists,
an organization formed in 1969 to advance human rights, including
the prevention of war crimes, the punishment of war criminals, the
prohibition of weapons of mass destruction, and international
co-operation based on the rule of law and the fair implementation of
international covenants and conventions. In a speech given by IAJLJ
Deputy President Irit Kohn, the aims of the Association to combat
racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial and negation of
the State of Israel were re-iterated. Adv. Kohn also discussed the
topic of universal jurisdiction and the status of Gilad Shalit, the
IDF soldier who was kidnapped by Hamas nearly three years ago.
March
2009: Senior Partner Igor Ellyn’s expertise in the enforcement
of foreign judgments has been recognized on the global stage. Mr.
Ellyn was invited by international law publisher Juris Publishing of
Huntington, New York to re-write the Canada chapter of the text Enforcement
of Money Judgments which includes submissions from
leading business litigation experts in 95 countries. With the
assistance of Associate Evelyn Perez Youssoufian, Mr. Ellyn authored
a 92-page, completely revamped chapter on money judgment enforcement
law in Canada, which including the significant changes and case law
in Canada over the last decade. For assistance with the law of the
province of Quebec, Mr. Ellyn turned to Jean-Pierre Sheppard, a
senior partner in the Montreal law firm of Robinson Sheppard Shapiro S.E,N.C.R.L. LLP, who was assisted by Jennifer Hansen and Jonathan Feingold. The
Ellyn-Sheppard manuscript was submitted in March 2009 and will be
published in Summer 2009. An excerpt of the common law aspects of
the chapter will appear in the Recent Articles section of
www.ellynlaw.com after publication.
April
2009: An article written by Senior Partner Igor Ellyn, QC entitled
“Parties battle over the scope of arbitration clauses” was published
in the Focus on Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of The Lawyers Weekly,
a national Canadian legal newspaper. The article which reviews
recent cases on the judicial approach to mandatory arbitration
agreements in Ontario courts is available for download in the
Articles section of www.ellynlaw.com.
February
2009: Senior Partner Igor Ellyn, QC and Associate Evelyn Perez Youssoufian
have co-authored an article entitled The Standard of Appellate
Review: High Hurdles to Right Wrongs which will be published in the
Spring issue of The Litigator, the journal of the Ontario Trial
Lawyers Association. The Spring issue will be devoted to appellate
law and will feature articles by leading Ontario experts on the law
and practice relating to appeals in Ontario. The article, which will
be available for download in the Articles section of www.ellynlaw.com after publication, relies in part on Mr.Ellyn's long experience in
appellate advocacy.
October
2008: Igor Ellyn and Orie Niedzviecki’s article “The Business Legal Checkup: Preventive advice for the legal health
of your Business” was published on the front page of in the October 2008 Newsletter of
the Better Business Bureau of Central and Mid-western Ontario.
The article is available in the Articles section of this website.
October
2008: Ellyn
Law LLP has developed a new legal service which will provide an
audit of legal matters affecting small and medium sized businesses.
Canadian Business Legal CheckupJ is a diagnostic tool small and medium size businesses could use to
verify if legal aspects of their operation comply with the law and
also, to minimize risk, litigation and expense. When the Business
Legal Checkup is completed, the business owner receives a lawyer’s
report red-flagging matters which need correction, improvement or
further legal advice. Please see our recent article on this
topic in the Articles section of our website, entitled “The Business Legal Checkup: Preventive advice for the legal health
of your Business”. Canadian Business Legal Checkup and Business Legal Checkup are
registered trademarks.
October
2008:
Ellyn Law LLP is a member of the International Network of Boutique
Law Firms (INBLF), an association of more than 250 law firms in
North American and globally, which provided specialized expertise.
Firms are selected for membership based on their expertise and
experience. Senior Partner Igor Ellyn attended the INBLF’s annual
conference in Atlanta, Georgia, where he expanded Ellyn Law LLP’s
North American and global contacts in the areas of international
commercial arbitration, litigation, and shareholder disputes.
July
2008: The
Better Business Bureau of Central and Mid-western Ontario has
announced that Ellyn Law LLP will provide Legal Line Services to
Accredited Businesses in the GTA. BBB’s Legal Line is a service for
BBB Accredited Businesses to receive initial legal advice on a
business problem. Ellyn Law LLP is the first GTA firm appointed by
BBB of Central and Mid-western Ontario to provide this service. BBB
has more than 5,000 Accredited Businesses as members.
July
2008: Partners Orie Niedzviecki and Igor Ellyn contributed a legal column
to the BBB’s July 2008 e-Newsletter entitled “So your business
has a legal problem. . . Eight useful tips on getting legal advice
and what to expect from your lawyer”. The e-newsletter is
distributed to BBB Accredited Businesses. A copy of the article is
available in the Articles section of this website.
June
2008: Ellyn
Law LLP was one of three Canadian law firms listed in a directory of
dispute resolution lawyers worldwide in the June 2008 of Corporate
UK, the premier strategic finance magazine. As indicated in the
Corporate UK directory, Dispute resolution is the core expertise of
Ellyn Law LLP, including litigation and international commercial
arbitration, including foreign judgment and award enforcement.
March
2008: Igor Ellyn was a speaker and panellist at an international
conference held at the Bloomberg Center, New York in March 2008 entitled “Perspectives on
International Labor and Employment Law”, jointly sponsored by the
New York State Bar Association and the Cornell University, ILR
School, Labor and Employment Law Program. Mr. Ellyn made a
presentation on the topic “The Tension between Choice of Law and
Mandatory Rules in International Employment and Agency Arbitration”.
He participated in a panel with three other distinguished legal
counsel, international mediators and arbitrators, Linda Gail
Bartlett (New York), Richard DeWitt (Coral Gables, Florida) and Axel
Heck (Berlin, Germany). Mr. Ellyn’s presentation appears in the Articles section of this website.
December
2007: Partner
Igor Ellyn, QC published a paper in 2005 entitled “Shareholders’
Remedies in Canada”. The paper was presented a legal conference and
was published on www.hg.org and www.lawyers.com.
In December 2007, The Canadian Institute of Chartered Business
Valuators requested Mr. Ellyn’s permission to include his paper in
the mandatory syllabus for students preparing to become Chartered
Business Valuators. A copy of the paper is available in the Articles section of this website.
October
2007: Igor Ellyn participated in a Mediation Training Conference in New
York, NY conducted by the United Synagogue of Conservative Judaism (USCJ)
and the Rabbinic Assembly, where he was the only Canadian delegate.
The Conference, which took place over two days at New York’s
Jewish Theological Seminary, was attended by senior legal counsel,
arbitrators and mediators from across the United States and Mr.
Ellyn from Canada. Its purpose was to establish a roster of dispute
resolution to experienced dispute resolution professionals to
mediate and arbitrate future disputes between Conservative
synagogues and clergy. USCJ has 700 affiliated
congregations across North America and globally. The Rabbinic
Assembly is regulatory body for Conservative rabbis and has about
1500 members.
September
2007: Senior Partner Igor Ellyn, QC was the keynote speaker at the 17th
Annual Operation Update program presented by Ontario Bar Association
on September 21, 2007. Operation Update is a legal conference
attended by hundreds of lawyers every year where experts in various
fields of law explain developments in the law over the preceding
year. Igor Ellyn presented a paper entitled "The Five Most
Significant Decisions of the Courts in 2006-07", which was prepared
with the assistance of Evelyn Perez Youssoufian, associate in the
firm and former associate, Michelle Gordon. This will mark the fifth
time Mr. Ellyn has delivered the keynote presentation at Operation
Update. His paper appears in the Artlcles section of this website and has also been published on www.bar-ex.com www.lawyers.com and www.hg.org.
September 2007: Ellyn Law LLP is pleased to welcome Evelyn Perez-Youssoufian as an associate in our firm. Evelyn is a graduate of a dual program in Canadian and U.S. Law from the
August 2007: Ellyn Law LLP is pleased to announce that our offices have moved to
July 2007: Senior Partner Igor Ellyn has been appointed Honourary Legal Counsel of Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region for a two-year term. In this role, Mr. Ellyn will be active in human rights advocacy on behalf of the Jewish Community and the broader community in
June 2007: Partners Igor Ellyn, QC and Orie Niedzviecki will be breakfast speakers on shareholders' remedies at Macdonald & Partners, a Toronto firm specializing in family law and divorce.
June 2007: As of June 1, 2007, Ellyn-Barristers has become Ellyn Law LLP. Orie Niedzviecki has become a partner of the firm and Michelle Gordon is an associate. After a four year stint, our fomer associate, Jacqueline Dickison, has left our firm returned to Mississauga, Ontario, to continue her practice of family. We wish her success in her new office.
May 2007: Senior Partner Igor Ellyn, QC and Michelle Gordon authored a paper of entitled "Winning Commercial Appeals and the Concept of Commercial Reasonableness", which is available for downloading in the Information Centre of this website. Igor Ellyn, QC delivered a speech and Power point presentation at the Ontario Bar Association's continuing education program, "Your First Appeal".
May 2007: Our firm was a sponsor of the annual Netivot HaTorah Hebrew School Golf Tournament.
May 2007: Igor Ellyn has been invited to deliver the keynote speech at the Ontario Bar Association's continuing education program "Operation Update" on September 21, 2007 on the subject "The Five Most Significant Decisions of the Courts in 2006-2007" This will be the fifth time Igor Ellyn has been asked to deliver this keynote speech. Papers from the previous speeches are available for review and downloading in the Information Centre of this website.
April 2007: Our firm continues the development of a preventative law service to be known as Business Legal Check-up and Canadian Business Legal Check-up. Trademark approval has been received for both of these names. Watch for further development of this innovative legal service in the coming months.
March 2007: Igor Ellyn was a delegate to the International Conference of the American Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists entitled " Protecting Human Rights and Democratic Values in an Age of Terrorism", which was held on George Washington Law School of American University. The conference was held in conjunction with the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, of which Igor Ellyn is a Vice-President.
On March 22, 2007, Igor Ellyn attended a ceremony at the United States Supreme Court for the presentation of the Pursuit of Justice Award to Justice Aharon Barak, former President of the Israel Supreme Court and one of the most influential scholars and jurists in the history of Israel. The awarded was presented by the Hon. Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Suprement Court and the Hon. Irwin Cotler, former Justice Minister of Canada. On March 23, 2007, Igor Ellyn, accompanied by lawyers Howard Simmons (Brampton) and Theodore Goloff (Montreal) attended a meeting with the Hon. Michael Wilson, Canada's Ambassador to the United States.
October 7, 2005: Igor Ellyn delivered the keynote address at Ontario Bar Association's Operation Update on the topic of "The Five Most Significant Cases of the Courts in 2004-2005". An information copy of this paper is available in the Information Centre.
October 2005: Igor Ellyn and Orie Niedzviecki prepared a paper entitled "The Five Most Significant Cases of the Courts in 2004-2005" for Operation Update, an annual seminar of the Ontario Bar Association. An information copy of this paper is available in the Information Centre.
October 2005: Ellyn-Barristers will soon change its firm name to ELLYN LAW. This change is in keeping with the development of our firm's innovative and important legal service for small and medium-sized businesses called "Canadian Business Legal Checkup". Watch this website in the months ahead for further developments. Our firm's expertise business litigation and estate/matrimonial in all the areas listed in this website remain unchanged.
May 2005: Ellyn-Barristers was a sponsor of the Netivot HaTorah Day School Golf Tournament. Orie Niedzviecki participated in the tournament on behalf of the firm.
April 2005: Igor Ellyn delivered a lecture at a conference of the Centre for International Legal Studies in Whistler, British Columbia on the subject of "Shareholders Remedies in Canada". An information copy of Mr. Ellyn's paper is available in the Information Centre.