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About Investigation Counsel

The concept of lawyers who investigate, or ‘investigation counsel,’ is not something new to Canada’s justice system. Regulatory bodies such as the Ontario Securities Commission and the Law Society of Upper Canada have designated lawyers as ‘investigation counsel’ to perform and supervise their investigations for some time.The idea of bringing the Investigation Counsel concept into the market place came about during discussions between lawyers with policing backgrounds who were meeting to share their experiences working in downtown Toronto law firms. The thread common to us all was that when clients of the firms or lawyers we worked with learned about our law enforcement experience, they asked us to engage in or supervise investigative or security matters. There was also a camaraderie between us similar to what we knew in policing but uncommon to our experience in many legal organizations.

The combining of our criminal, civil, corporate, securities, labour and employment litigation practices with our investigative experience was applied informally to a number of projects. The concept worked well. The result was the formation of Investigation Counsel Network as a professional association of lawyers with policing experience and Investigation Counsel Professional Corporation (”Investigation Counsel PC”) as a law firm specializing in fraud litigation, complex investigations and independent counsel services.

At Investigation Counsel Network and Investigation Counsel PC, we continue to seek lawyers to joins us or be affiliated with us at the firms they are employed by. We also invite police and other government investigators as well as bank, insurance and private investigators to provide us their contact information for the purposes of litigation referrals and consultations regarding their investigative expertise.

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