Our associate Maya Kotob and I welcome Anita Szigeti Advocates’ new Articling Student Kyle Quinlan to our dynamic boutique law firm specializing in mental health law. I want to thank everyone who directed candidates our way and let you know we may not be done hiring. We may add another student to our firm this spring or summer. The quality of the candidates we had the pleasure of meeting was absolutely stunning. Kyle Quinlan has a rich and varied background in criminal and mental health law and we drafted him first as the most immediately best fit for us. We are expecting great things – no pressure though.
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Where it All Happens Behind the Scenes – My office at University Law Chambers
• Called to the Bar (1992)
• U of T Law grad (1990)
• Sole practitioner (33 years)
• Partner in small law firm (Hiltz Szigeti) 2002 - 2013
• Mom to two astonishing kids, Scarlett (20+) and Sebastian (20-)
• (Founding) Chair of Mental Health Legal Committee for ten years (1997 to 2007)
* Founding President of Law and Mental Disorder Association - LAMDA since 2017
* Founder and Secretary to Women in Canadian Criminal Defence - WiCCD - since 2022
• Counsel to clients with serious mental health issues before administrative tribunals and on appeals
• Former Chair, current member of LAO’s mental health law advisory committee
• Educator, lecturer, widely published author (including 5 text books on consent and capacity law, Canadian civil mental health law, the criminal law of mental disorder, a law school casebook and a massive Anthology on all things mental health and the law)
• Thirty+ years’ experience as counsel to almost exclusively legally aided clients
• Frequently appointed amicus curiae
• Fearless advocate
• Not entirely humourless
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