I had needed help and I am so grateful to Nigel Gilby and Karen Simpson of Lerners law firm. My challenged cousin had become a targeted victim of predatory door to door salespeople and she was on the verge of losing her home. She is elderly, legally blind, noticeably mentally and physically challenged and she […]
This week a friend of mine emailed me this document. The document is titled “Optional Accident Benefits Confirmation Form”. It was sent to my friend by her insurance company. She told me that she did not understand half of what it meant. I reminded her that accident benefits are part of Ontario’s automobile insurance scheme […]
For the last few weeks, we’ve once again been running a challenge for someone to win free registration and a two-night stay for the Fire Service Women Ontario’s 2019 Symposium & AGM. All entrants needed to do was “pay it forward” with some sort of deed in their community that was for the benefit of […]
ATTENTION FIREFIGHTERS & ASPIRING FIREFIGHTERS Enter for your chance to win free registration and two nights stay to Fire Service Women Ontario’s 2019 SYMPOSIUM & AGM sponsored by Lerners LLP For the second year in a row, I will be “paying it forward” and sponsoring a person’s registration and accommodations to Fire Service Women Ontario’s […]
Lerners is proud to have been one of the Presenting Sponsors for “Minds for Change: A Night at the Moulin Rouge” featuring the fabulous Miss Conception, in support of London Health Sciences Centre First Episode Mood and Anxiety Program (FEMAP). The FEMAP clinic provides programs and support for older teens and young adults with emotional […]
On Friday, April 12, Bill and I, together with our colleague, Anne Reinhart, held the first #411forthe911 Symposium for the London Professional Firefighters’ Association. Our goal was to educate first responders about the medical and rehabilitation, and financial realities, of becoming seriously injured whether on the job or not! Based on the questions posed to […]
ATTENTION FIREFIGHTERS & ASPIRING FIREFIGHTERS Enter for your chance to win free registration and two nights stay to Fire Service Women Ontario’s 2018 SYMPOSIUM & AGM sponsored by Lerners LLP During last year’s conference I unexpectedly won the prize for free registration to this year’s FSWO Symposium and AGM hosted by Conestoga College. It was […]
May 4th – 6th, 2018, marked the 27th London Lesbian Film Festival. The annual three day movie screening event aims to portray a variety of images and narratives which reflect the experiences of people who identify as women. Of note is the fact that in 2016, the festival organizers, also known as the ‘Reeling Spinsters’, […]
On May 8th and 9th I attended the Healthy Communities Conference in Owen Sound representing Lerners who was a sponsor at the event. The goal of the conference was to unpack the root causes of Indigenous health inequities in the Grey-Bruce region and to create partnerships for wellbeing. The conference sessions explored cultural safety, local […]
In case you missed it, March 8th marked International Women’s Day (IWD) and provided an opportunity to acknowledge the ongoing struggle for gender equality in compensation, representation in business and politics, education and health while also recognizing improvements and progress. Lawyers and staff were encouraged to wear purple, the official colour of IWD, and celebrated […]