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”.
The Lawyers of Ellyn Law LLP
Here are the lawyers of Ellyn Law LLP. We provide our clients with sound advice and experience advocacy in litigation and arbitration matters in
If your case involves business litigation, arbitration, shareholder disputes, defamation, estate law, employment law and some aspects of copyright law, we can probably help you. The members of our firm are just part of a larger network of legal and professional resources. We have close ties with colleagues in nearly ever field of law practice locally and internationally. If we can’t represent you, we may be able to refer you to a lawyer who can.
We also call on an impressive group of investigative and forensic experts to provide advisory and evidentiary support to our clients’ cases. We are members of two international law groups, the INBLF and AEA, whose members are located in major cities around the world. We can find a competent colleague nearly anywhere in a short time. We also have excellent local and international contacts through the Canadian Bar Association, the ADR Institute of Canada and
Igor Ellyn QC, Certified Specialist in Civil Litigation
Igor Ellyn is the founding partner of the firm and a senior
commercial litigator, who has been highly peer-rated. Called to the
Ontario Bar in 1973, Mr. Ellyn was designated Queen's Counsel in
1985 and has been certified by the Law Society as a Specialist in
Civil Litigation since 1989. He has appeared many times in all of
the Courts of Ontario, before the Federal Court and the Federal
Court of Appeal, in the Supreme Court of Canada and before numerous
administrative tribunals and arbitral tribunals, including ICC, LCIA
and ad hoc under the UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules. He is also
Honourary Legal Counsel of Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region.
Mr. Ellyn acts as counsel in litigation and arbitrations in English
and French. He also accepts assignments as a mediator and arbitrator
in English and French. He is a Chartered Arbitrator and mediator.
In 2002, he was designated a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of
Arbitrators. In 1997, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the
governing body of the legal profession in
Orie
H. Niedzviecki
has been a partner of the firm since 2007. He has been a member of
the Ontario Bar for more than 10 years. He is also admitted to the
Bar of the
Evelyn
Perez Youssoufian
is a litigation associate in the firm and is involved in all
aspects of the firm’s litigation and ADR practice. She provides
services to clients in support of partners of the firm and
independently. Evelyn has appeared in the Superior Court of
Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Provincial Offences
Court. She has been involved in an international commercial
arbitration before a 3-member tribunal under UNCITRAL Arbitration
Rules. Her expertise includes employment law disputes,
shareholders’ disputes, enforcement of judgments, internet
defamation and other business law issues. Evelyn was called to the
Ontario Bar in 2005. She articled at a well-respected
Michael Blinick is a litigation
associate in the firm. He was called to the Bar in 2009.
He provides support to the partners of the firm and provides
services to clients in all aspects of the firm’s litigation
and ADR practice, including international litigation and
appeals. He received a J.D. from the Faculty of Law,
Queen’s University and articled at a respected full-service