At O'Sullivan Estate Lawyers LLP, our client philosophy is simple. We believe that the key to achieving your estate planning goals is understanding your personal objectives and values. To accomplish this we provide a comfortable atmosphere where the intricacies of your finances and family relationships may be discussed frankly and with discretion. Our approach results in a level of personal service not achievable in large institutional or transaction-oriented law firms.
Your individual estate planning goals are unique to you, and your estate planning needs may be simple or complex. O'Sullivan Estate Lawyers LLP provides tailored estate planning and estate administration as well as estate dispute resolution legal services to clients resident both in and outside Ontario, including those who have high net worth estates. For more information about how we can help you, we encourage you to contact our Toronto law firm to learn more during a meeting with one of our lawyers.
We augment our client services with expertise developed through extensive casework and practical experience as well as numerous leadership roles in the Canadian trust and estate field.
Firm founder and managing partner Margaret O'Sullivan is widely recognized for her credentials and accomplishments. She has been recognized in International, European and Canadian directories as a leading practitioner in estate planning, and is a frequent speaker and writer on trusts and estates, estate planning, estate administration and estate litigation, including authorship of two textbooks and development of course materials. Other lawyers rely on her experience and insight, utilizing her as an expert witness. She was the 2013 recipient of the Ontario Bar Association's Award of Excellence in Trusts and Estates Law and the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) 2014 Founder's Award for Outstanding Achievement. Ms. O'Sullivan is a founding member of STEP (Canada) and has held numerous national and international leadership roles in STEP and the Ontario Bar Association. She is a Fellow of The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, an Academician of The International Academy of Estate and Trust Law and a member of the STEP Cross Border Estates Global Steering Committee.
Firm partner Susannah Roth, who has practiced trust and estate law since being called to the bar in 2002 and has spoken and written on various subject areas in trust and estate law, is a past member of the Council of the Ontario Bar Association and a past Chair of the Executive of the Trusts and Estates Section of the Ontario Bar Association. She is a member of STEP, as well as a member of the editorial board for STEP Inside and a trustee of the OBA Foundation. Ms. Roth was the 2011 recipient of the Ontario Bar Association's Heather McArthur Memorial Young Lawyers Award for contribution to continuing legal education and professional development.
Emma Hamilton's practice includes estate planning, estate administration and estate dispute resolution. Prior to joining O'Sullivan Estate Lawyers, Emma practiced at a mid-size law firm in Calgary. She has experience in will, trust and succession planning, wealth transfer and incapacity planning, probate, estate and trust administration, special trust and estate court applications and family law matters, including domestic contracts. Emma has a J.D. from the University of Calgary, Faculty of Law and is a student member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP).
Birute's practice includes tax, estate and incapacity planning, estate administration and estate dispute resolution. Birute has extensive experience in personal and corporate taxation law and financial planning. She completed her articles at the Tax Court of Canada and subsequently practised at a national Canadian law firm and a "Big Four" accounting firm in Toronto and New York and worked at a major Canadian bank. Birute is completing the Diploma Program of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP). She also serves on the Executive Committees of Ontario Bar Association's Trusts and Estates Section and Tax Section. Birute received a Province of Ontario recognition for volunteering for 15 years with a Lithuanian charitable organization. Birute also speaks Lithuanian and Russian.
We are a top-ranked and peer recognized firm, including Margaret O’Sullivan by Chambers Canada Guide 2017 and Chambers Canada High Net Worth 2017 as one of the top six private client lawyers in Canada:
Many clients of O'Sullivan Estate Lawyers LLP are United States citizens or other foreign nationals who have complex wills and estates with assets and affiliations in Canada, the U.S. and internationally. To discuss how our estate and trust planning and administration legal services can help you, contact the Ontario estate lawyers of the downtown Toronto law firm O'Sullivan Estate Lawyers LLP.
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