Legal Work Experience:
- Sole Practitioner, Law Office of E. Jean Polak, Bracebridge - September 2000 to date
- Associate Lawyer, Lee, Roche & Kelly, Bracebridge - August 1993 to August 2000
- Associate Lawyer, Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington, Toronto - March 1989 to July 1993 (except during leave of absence for Fox Scholarship)
- Fox Scholar, Middle
Temple, London, England - 1989-1990
- Accompanied senior and junior barristers to hearings before various courts and tribunals including House of Lords, J.C.P.C., Court of Appeal
- Conducted research, assisted in trial preparation, participated in conferences between barristers and instructing solicitors
- Summer and Articling Student, Tory Tory DesLauriers & Binnington, Toronto - 1986, 1987-1988
- Summer Student, Polak, McKay & Hawkshaw, Ajax, Ontario - 1984 and 1985
Areas of Practice:
Areas of practice currently are civil and criminal litigation and wills and estates.
Civil litigation experience includes:
- Commercial litigation
- Construction lien
- Employment litigation
- Defamation
- Landlord & tenant
- Administrative tribunals
- Libel
- Professional negligence
Criminal litigation experience includes:
- Criminal defence
- Provincial offences defence (Game & Fish Act, EPA, etc.)
- Provincial offences prosecution (Building Code Act, Highway Traffic Act, etc.)
