Headquarters:

20 Wellington Street East, Aurora, ON

Year founded:

1983

Number of partners and employees:

4 lawyers, 2 partners, 8 support staff

Phone:

905 841 5717

Email:

info@bolandromaine.com

Website:

bolandromaine.com

LinkedIn:

ca.linkedin.com/company/boland-romaine-llp

“We believe in backing up what we say by aggressively advocating on behalf of each of our clients. Justice cannot always be negotiated”

Darcy Romaine, Boland Romaine

BOLAND ROMAINE LLP

Tim Boland

Partner

Darcy Romaine

Partner

Basia Sowinski

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Tim Boland is a trial lawyer for the seriously injured. He has extensive trial experience and numerous precedent-setting verdicts on behalf of individuals who have suffered traumatic brain injuries, spinal cord trauma, serious orthopedic injuries, psychological injuries, and those who have lost loved ones. Boland is most proud of his cases that have changed the law for the better. He has co-chaired, presented, and demonstrated at many conferences dedicated to personal injury law and trial advocacy, and has lectured at many continuing legal education seminars. He has published extensively in the areas of personal injury law and trial advocacy, including as co-author of the chapter on municipal liability in the Oatley McLeish Guide to Personal Injury Practice in Motor Vehicle Cases. Boland is a former director of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (OTLA), where he has chaired many important committees, including Access to Justice. He is involved in a number of community activities, including the ‘Lids on Kids’ program sponsored by his firm to provide bicycle helmets for children from disadvantaged backgrounds in the York region.

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Darcy Romaine has won trials where liability is complex, and the injuries are profound. He is known for trials involving municipal negligence and his efforts to have unsafe winter roadway maintenance regulations eliminated. He has acted as outside counsel on behalf of the Ontario Public Guardian and Trustee, representing those whose injuries render them incapable of making legal decisions. Notably, such cases include a successful 22-day trial against the Ontario Provincial Police (Pelletier v. Her Majesty the Queen), and Youssef v. Redi-Mix Limited et al., which went to the Supreme Court of Canada to interpret the Residential Tenancies Act and a landlord’s negligent property management. Romaine is the treasurer of the York Region Law Association. From 2010 to 2017, he was a director of the OTLA and was selected to review Ontario’s proposed Protocol for Traffic Injury Management.

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Darcy Romaine

Basia Sowinski earned her undergraduate degree from McGill in 2017 and her law degree from Dalhousie in 2020, with a specialization in health law and policy. She participated in Pro Bono Dalhousie, working with the Right to Know Coalition, Nova Scotia Court of Appeal, and Dalhousie’s Psychiatry Department. Sowinski’s internships included the Nova Scotia Public Trustee and the Department of Health and Wellness. She served on the Board of Directors for Hospice Halifax and currently offers independent legal advice to sexual assault survivors through the 211 Nova Scotia program.

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Basia Sowinski

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Alicia Landers

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Alicia Landers graduated with a psychology degree from Mount Allison University in 2020 and earned her Juris Doctor from Dalhousie University in 2023. At Dalhousie, she served as president of the Social Activist Law Student Association and worked at the Dalhousie Legal Aid Clinic. She joined Valent Legal as a summer student in 2022, returned as an articling clerk in 2023, and has remained in the firm as an associate.

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M. Steve Rastin

Senior Counsel

Steve Rastin is a senior counsel with nearly 30 years of experience advocating for seriously injured clients and those seeking justice. Specializing in personal injury, motor vehicle accidents, disability law, medical negligence, and class action/mass tort cases, Rastin has argued at all levels of the court, including the Supreme Court of Canada. Since joining Gluckstein Lawyers in 2021, he has led Rastin Gluckstein offices in central Ontario and serves as trial counsel across the province. An award-winning lawyer, he has achieved precedent-setting decisions and multimillion-dollar recoveries, while also dedicating his time to advancing legal education nationwide.

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M. Steve Rastin

Boland Romaine LLP leads with trial experience and follows through with results. For over 40 years, the personal injury firm has advocated for seriously injured clients across Ontario, focusing on restoring their futures by holding wrongdoers accountable. Based in the York Region and led by partners Tim Boland and Darcy Romaine, the firm has earned a reputation for excellence rooted in courtroom performance. Its lawyers and senior clerks operate as a cohesive unit, many of them together for decades, driven by shared values of skill, preparation, and purpose. Its slogan defines its firm identity: Your future is worth fighting for. “We believe in backing up what we say by aggressively advocating on behalf of each of our clients,” says Darcy Romaine, partner. “Justice cannot always be negotiated.” Trial advocacy has been the firm’s cornerstone since its founding. While many personal injury cases settle before reaching a courtroom, Boland Romaine emphasizes that the strength of those settlements depends on a lawyer’s credibility at trial. “Successful trial verdicts are the only objective measure of a personal injury lawyer’s judgment, confidence, commitment, and ability,” says Boland. “Settlements can’t give you that insight. They don’t tell you how much the lawyer compromised the injured person’s claim.” That perspective has made the firm a standout in high-stakes litigation, particularly municipal liability. Its trial verdicts have helped shape case law. At the same time, its leadership at the Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Association and York Region Law Association has further cemented its role as a voice for the injured across the province. Over the years, Boland Romaine has adopted a research-forward strategy to strengthen claims involving “invisible injuries” such as pain, mood, or brain disorders. Collaborating with psychiatrists, physiatrists, and economists, the firm focuses on making these injuries more comprehensible to juries and quantifying the lifelong consequences of trauma on work, savings, and earning capacity.

“Successful trial verdicts are the only objective measure of a personal injury lawyer’s judgment, confidence, commitment, and ability”

Tim Boland, Boland Romaine

David Lackman

Senior Counsel

Jonathan Burton

Senior Litigation Lawyer

Erin Ellis

Senior Associate

Liane Brown

Partner

David Lackman graduated with honours from McGill University in 1978 and earned his Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles. Admitted to the California Bar in 1982 and the Law Society of Ontario in 1985, Lackman has over 40 years of legal expertise. Lackman’s practice focuses on complex personal injury, long-term disability, wrongful death claims, and criminal injury compensation. Known for achieving outstanding results, he has taken on some of the nation’s largest corporations, including railway operators, earning a reputation as a highly skilled litigator in high-stakes cases.

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Jonathan Burton is a senior associate at Gluckstein Lawyers, a prominent personal injury law firm based in Toronto. With over 18 years of experience, he has established himself as a knowledgeable, compassionate, and dedicated personal injury lawyer. Burton joined the firm in 2005 and has since been instrumental in providing expert legal representation to clients seeking justice for their injuries. His broad expertise and commitment to his clients make him an invaluable member of the Gluckstein Lawyers team.

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Erin Ellis has over a decade of experience advocating for survivors of sexual and physical abuse, both recent and historical. She represents clients across Canada, seeking recognition and compensation for harm caused or enabled by individuals and institutions, including teachers, coaches, clergy, foster parents, and more. Ellis earned her Bachelor of Science from Cornell University (2003) and her law degree from Queen’s University (2007), joining the Ontario Bar in 2008. With a deep understanding of civil abuse litigation, she is highly compassionate and dedicated, providing client-centered representation and leveraging her expertise to support survivors with determination and care.

Senior Associate

Erin Ellis

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

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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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Clients can expect more than technical know-how, as well as the attention of a trial-tested lawyer and a senior clerk with deep specialization in either tort or accident benefits on every file. That team approach makes the firm’s service feel personal while delivering outcomes that often exceed expectations. True compassion, as the firm sees it, doesn’t stop at bedside visits or kind words. “True compassion in our industry is measured by the extent to which a lawyer will go to achieve the best result for their client,” adds Romaine. The firm also makes its results visible. Clients receive a trial report card outlining past verdicts, a transparent tool that reinforces their leverage at the negotiating table. After four decades of representing clients across the province and being named once again by Canadian Lawyer as one of Canada’s Top Personal Injury Boutiques in 2025, Boland Romaine continues to attract referrals from peers and recognition from juries. “Our clients often tell us, either after receiving the trial verdict or negotiating a settlement, how appreciative they are of how thoroughly we prepared and how hard we fought for that result,” spokesperson Romaine. For Boland Romaine, the law is more than negotiation. It’s advocacy, shaped by skill, strategy, and the will to stand up when it matters most.

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