Headquarters:
Toronto, ON
Year founded:
1999
Number of employees:
8 partners, 4 associates, 41 employees
Phone:
866 685 3311
Email:
info@mollp.com
Website:
mcleishorlando.com
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/mcleish-orlando-llp
“Besides a skillful, caring, and experienced team, our most important resource is the relationship we have built with the best rehabilitation and health care professionals”
DALE ORLANDO,
McLeish Orlando
MCLEISH ORLANDO LAWYERS LLP
Dale Orlando
Principal Partner
Patrick Brown
Principal Partner
Salvatore Shaw
Partner
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Dale Orlando, along with John McLeish, founded McLeish Orlando in 1999. Dale works exclusively in personal injury/wrongful death litigation on behalf of plaintiffs. He is a past president of the Ontario Trial Lawyer[CEROS OBJECT]s Association and has been chosen by peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in Canada and the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.
His practice is dedicated exclusively to personal injury and wrongful death cases, acting on behalf of injured people and their family members. He finds that it is the most fulfilling and rewarding type of work that one can do as a lawyer.
Principal Partner
Dale Orlando
Patrick Brown has been practicing law for over 25 years and has dedicated his career to helping those who suffer serious and catastrophic personal injuries as well as families who have lost a loved one due to the fault of another. He has cases throughout Ontario and is a leader in the area of personal injury law. Having practised personal injury in Ontario for over 25 years, his cases have involved children, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, wrongful death, biking/cycling injury, boating, daycare and camp negligence, drowning, road disrepair and motor vehicle collisions.
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Patrick Brown
For the last two decades, Salvatore Shaw has dedicated his practice exclusively to motor vehicle personal injury, product liability and wrongful death cases, acting only on behalf of injured people and their family members. Since 2016, he has been consistently selected by his peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in Canada publication for personal injury litigation. His practice has focused on motor vehicle, product liability, and wrongful death cases, acting exclusively on behalf of injured people and their family members.
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Salvatore Shaw
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Joseph Cescon
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Joseph Cescon has dedicated his practice exclusively to working or injured clients and their families. He has handled a wide variety of personal injury cases, and has the experience and dedication required to achieve a successful outcome, no matter how complex the case is. A passionate advocate, he strives to assist his clients in their recovery and in the pursuit of their goals. Joseph is a board member of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association. He has lectured at conferences held by The Law Society of Ontario, The Ontario Bar Association and The Medicolegal Society of Toronto, among others.
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Joseph Cescon
Lindsay Charles
Partner
Lindsay Charles joined McLeish Orlando as a law student, and following her call to the bar, she was hired to the firm as an associate lawyer. Her practice is devoted exclusively to plaintiffs’ personal injury and wrongful death cases, including motor vehicle collisions, occupiers’ liability, product liability, medical negligence, and disability benefit claims.
Lindsay regularly appears at the Superior Court of Justice and the License Appeal Tribunal. She has been co-counsel on a precedent-setting arbitration to restore denied benefits and on a precedent-setting motion to have a fraudulent conveyance action proceed concurrently with a personal injury action.
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Lindsay Charles
Since its inception 25 years ago, McLeish Orlando has been committed to representing people who have been seriously injured and family members who have lost a loved one through the negligence of others.
The firm has earned a reputation for its rigorous litigation approach, resulting in favourable client outcomes in the most demanding and complex cases by dedicating personnel and financial resources to each case.
A commitment to outstanding client service, proficiency in navigating intricate personal injury cases, and advocacy for safety and injury prevention has led to the firm’s repeated recognition as one of Canadian Lawyer's esteemed Top Personal Injury Boutiques.
“Besides a skillful, caring, and experienced team, our most important resource is the relationship we have built with our network of rehabilitation and health care professionals, ensuring our clients can reach their rehabilitation goals,” says Dale Orlando, principal partner.
The firm's leadership believes that advocating for individuals who have experienced significant injuries represents the most fulfilling aspect of legal practice. Across the organization, a client-focused approach ensures its clients benefit from exceptional legal representation.
“We believe that exceptional service goes beyond achieving legal success; it encompasses empathy, understanding, and genuine care for our clients’ well-being”
PATRICK BROWN,
McLeish Orlando
Nick Todorovic
Partner
William Keele
Partner
John McLeish
Founding Partner
Liane Brown
Partner
Nick Todorovic’s unique approach to personal injury law partly comes from completing a PhD in organic chemistry and spending years in a laboratory researching pharmaceutical drug candidates for various cancers and antibiotic resistances. His analytical skills enable him to think outside the box when advocating for victims and maximizing their awards. The discipline he obtained from national-level competitive swimming allows him to achieve awards for victims at a much faster pace. Nick is no stranger to litigating high-profile cases involving boating deaths, municipal liability, ethanol lamp explosions, cycling crashes, and multi-trauma motor vehicle crashes.
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Since William Keele’s call to the bar in 2010, he has dedicated his practice exclusively to working for seriously injured clients and their families. In addition to personal injury and fatality claims arising from motor vehicle collisions, Will has a wealth of experience handling occupiers’ liability, product liability, commercial host liability, long-term disability, and wrongful death lawsuits. He is passionate about helping his clients navigate the complexities of a negligence lawsuit and maximizing their recovery.
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William Keele
John McLeish’s practice has been dedicated exclusively to representing individuals who have suffered serious personal injuries, as well as representing family members in wrongful death cases. His areas of expertise include traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, serious orthopedic injuries, and fatal accidents arising from motor vehicle collisions, drunk driving, the excessive serving of alcohol by bars and restaurants, unsafe roads and highways, pedestrian accidents, cycling accidents, boating accidents, and school negligence cases.
John is the co-author of five published books on personal injury, wrongful death, and insurance law, one of which deals exclusively with traumatic brain injuries. He has extensively written on how to properly develop and build a winning case, together with successful settlement techniques, successful mediation techniques, and successful trial techniques.
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Liane Brown is committed to representing individuals who have suffered serious personal injuries and to families who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Her practice concentrates on personal injury law, including accident benefits, motor vehicle collisions, medical malpractice, occupiers’ liability, product liability and wrongful death cases.
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Liane Brown
Liane Brown is committed to representing individuals who have suffered serious personal injuries and to families who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Her practice concentrates on personal injury law, including accident benefits, motor vehicle collisions, medical malpractice, occupiers’ liability, product liability and wrongful death cases.
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Liane Brown
Ben Irantalab enjoys the complexities of personal injury litigation. His practice is exclusively devoted to representing clients with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and severe orthopedic injuries. For him, the cases that require special creativity and thinking outside the box are the most gratifying.
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Ben Irantalab
At the firm's heart are partners Dale Orlando, Patrick Brown, Salvatore Shaw, Joseph Cescon, Lindsay Charles, Nick Todorovic, William Keele, and founding partner John McLeish.
“We believe that exceptional service goes beyond achieving legal success; it encompasses empathy, understanding, and genuine care for our clients’ well-being,” says Patrick Brown, principal partner. “By integrating compassion into every aspect of our work, we aim to provide more than just legal representation – we strive to make a meaningful difference in our clients' lives during their time of need.”
McLeish Orlando boasts a proven track record of success, anchored by an operational approach that emphasizes a ratio of five staff members to every lawyer to address each client’s questions and concerns promptly.
“We believe in taking a proactive approach to legal advocacy, identifying opportunities and potential obstacles early in the process,” adds Orlando. “By anticipating challenges and formulating proactive solutions, we strive to mitigate risks, expedite case resolution, and maximize client outcomes. Our ability to balance technical legal skills with strategic and proactive solutions allows us to provide comprehensive, effective, and client-focused legal representation in personal injury cases.”
“We believe in taking a proactive approach to legal advocacy, identifying opportunities and potential obstacles early in the process,” adds spokesperson. “By anticipating challenges and formulating proactive solutions, we strive to mitigate risks, expedite case resolution, and maximize client outcomes. Our ability to balance technical legal skills with strategic and proactive solutions allows us to provide comprehensive, effective, and client-focused legal representation in personal injury cases.”
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“We will continue to strengthen our service proposition and customer experience as a key differentiator, as we build on the momentum we have achieved to date across multiple business lines and territories,” says McLean. “Our im is to continue to grow our market relevance and strengthen our partnerships with our strategic brokers as we expand our leadership position in key sectors.
“We will also continue to invest in talent. We are committed to drawing from the broadest pools of talent, and to creating an environment that attracts and retains stellar employees. We recognise the importance of building teams that are diverse, collaborative, and innovative and are dedicated to cultivating a supportive and inclusive workplace culture in which all our employees can thrive.”
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Through its unwavering focus on employee engagement, Accolade strives to create a welcoming and diverse environment where talent is excited to come to work every day.
· serious injury claims
· medical malpractice claims
· long-term disability denials
· slip-and-fall accidents
· Day-to-day Shout-outs – to award outstanding work, employees can exchange earned points for gift vouchers of up to $150
· Quarterly Stars Award – employees demonstrating core values have the chance to win $500
· Annual Hero’s Celebration – manager-nominated and peer-voted awards where outstanding employees earn a $5,000 bonus
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Ben Irantalab enjoys the complexities of personal injury litigation. His practice is exclusively devoted to representing clients with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and severe orthopedic injuries. For him, the cases that require special creativity and thinking outside the box are the most gratifying.
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Ben Irantalab
Ben Irantalab
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Ben Irantalab enjoys the complexities of personal injury litigation. His practice is exclusively devoted to representing clients with brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, and severe orthopedic injuries. For him, the cases that require special creativity and thinking outside the box are the most gratifying.
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Ben Irantalab
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Liane Brown is committed to representing individuals who have suffered serious personal injuries and to families who have suffered the loss of a loved one. Her practice concentrates on personal injury law, including accident benefits, motor vehicle collisions, medical malpractice, occupiers’ liability, product liability and wrongful death cases.
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Liane Brown
Dale Orlando, along with John McLeish, founded McLeish Orlando in 1999. Dale works exclusively in personal injury/wrongful death litigation on behalf of plaintiffs. He is a past president of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association and has been chosen by peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in Canada and the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.
His practice is dedicated exclusively to personal injury and wrongful death cases, acting on behalf of injured people and their family members. He finds that it is the most fulfilling and rewarding type of work that one can do as a lawyer.
Patrick Brown has been practicing law for over 25 years and has dedicated his career to helping those who suffer serious and catastrophic personal injuries as well as families who have lost a loved one due to the fault of another. He has cases throughout Ontario and is a leader in the area of personal injury law. Having practised personal injury in Ontario for over 25 years, his cases have involved children, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, wrongful death, biking/cycling injury, boating, daycare and camp negligence, drowning, road disrepair and motor vehicle collisions.
For the last two decades, Salvatore Shaw has dedicated his practice exclusively to motor vehicle personal injury, product liability and wrongful death cases, acting only on behalf of injured people and their family members. Since 2016, he has been consistently selected by his peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in Canada publication for personal injury litigation. His practice has focused on motor vehicle, product liability, and wrongful death cases, acting exclusively on behalf of injured people and their family members.
Joseph Cescon has dedicated his practice exclusively to working or injured clients and their families. He has handled a wide variety of personal injury cases, and has the experience and dedication required to achieve a successful outcome, no matter how complex the case is. A passionate advocate, he strives to assist his clients in their recovery and in the pursuit of their goals. Joseph is a board member of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association. He has lectured at conferences held by The Law Society of Ontario, The Ontario Bar Association and The Medicolegal Society of Toronto, among others.
Lindsay Charles joined McLeish Orlando as a law student, and following her call to the bar, she was hired to the firm as an associate lawyer. Her practice is devoted exclusively to plaintiffs’ personal injury and wrongful death cases, including motor vehicle collisions, occupiers’ liability, product liability, medical negligence, and disability benefit claims.
Lindsay regularly appears at the Superior Court of Justice and the License Appeal Tribunal. She has been co-counsel on a precedent-setting arbitration to restore denied benefits and on a precedent-setting motion to have a fraudulent conveyance action proceed concurrently with a personal injury action.
Nick Todorovic’s unique approach to personal injury law partly comes from completing a PhD in organic chemistry and spending years in a laboratory researching pharmaceutical drug candidates for various cancers and antibiotic resistances. His analytical skills enable him to think outside the box when advocating for victims and maximizing their awards. The discipline he obtained from national-level competitive swimming allows him to achieve awards for victims at a much faster pace. Nick is no stranger to litigating high-profile cases involving boating deaths, municipal liability, ethanol lamp explosions, cycling crashes, and multi-trauma motor vehicle crashes.
Dale Orlando, along with John McLeish, founded McLeish Orlando in 1999. Dale works exclusively in personal injury/wrongful death litigation on behalf of plaintiffs. He is a past president of the Ontario Trial Lawyer[CEROS OBJECT]s Association and has been chosen by peers for inclusion in Best Lawyers in Canada and the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.
His practice is dedicated exclusively to personal injury and wrongful death cases, acting on behalf of injured people and their family members. He finds that it is the most fulfilling and rewarding type of work that one can do as a lawyer.
Patrick Brown has been practicing law for over 25 years and has dedicated his career to helping those who suffer serious and catastrophic personal injuries as well as families who have lost a loved one due to the fault of another. He has cases throughout Ontario and is a leader in the area of personal injury law. Having practised personal injury in Ontario for over 25 years, his cases have involved children, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, wrongful death, biking/cycling injury, boating, daycare and camp negligence, drowning, road disrepair and motor vehicle collisions.
For the last two decades, Salvatore Shaw has dedicated his practice exclusively to motor vehicle personal injury, product liability and wrongful death cases, acting only on behalf of injured people and their family members. Since 2016, he has been consistently selected by his peers for inclusion in the Best Lawyers in Canada publication for personal injury litigation. His practice has focused on motor vehicle, product liability, and wrongful death cases, acting exclusively on behalf of injured people and their family members.
Joseph Cescon has dedicated his practice exclusively to working or injured clients and their families. He has handled a wide variety of personal injury cases, and has the experience and dedication required to achieve a successful outcome, no matter how complex the case is. A passionate advocate, he strives to assist his clients in their recovery and in the pursuit of their goals. Joseph is a board member of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association. He has lectured at conferences held by The Law Society of Ontario, The Ontario Bar Association and The Medicolegal Society of Toronto, among others.
Lindsay Charles joined McLeish Orlando as a law student, and following her call to the bar, she was hired to the firm as an associate lawyer. Her practice is devoted exclusively to plaintiffs’ personal injury and wrongful death cases, including motor vehicle collisions, occupiers’ liability, product liability, medical negligence, and disability benefit claims.
Lindsay regularly appears at the Superior Court of Justice and the License Appeal Tribunal. She has been co-counsel on a precedent-setting arbitration to restore denied benefits and on a precedent-setting motion to have a fraudulent conveyance action proceed concurrently with a personal injury action.
Nick Todorovic’s unique approach to personal injury law partly comes from completing a PhD in organic chemistry and spending years in a laboratory researching pharmaceutical drug candidates for various cancers and antibiotic resistances. His analytical skills enable him to think outside the box when advocating for victims and maximizing their awards. The discipline he obtained from national-level competitive swimming allows him to achieve awards for victims at a much faster pace. Nick is no stranger to litigating high-profile cases involving boating deaths, municipal liability, ethanol lamp explosions, cycling crashes, and multi-trauma motor vehicle crashes.