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Brooke MacKenzie

Barrister & Solicitor

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Bar Admissions:

Ontario, 2013

Education:

B.A., Queen's University (2009)

J.D., Queen's University (2012)

LL.M., University of Toronto (2016)

Fast facts:

  • Advocated for clients in dozens of appeals before the Court of Appeal for Ontario, Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court of Appeal, Divisional Court, and various appellate tribunals.
     

  • Adjunct Professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, teaching upper-year Legal Ethics, since 2018.
     

  • Began legal career articling and practising in the litigation group of McCarthy Tétrault LLP.
     

  • Experienced and has a record of success before the Law Society Tribunal; one of few Ontario lawyers whose clients have emerged from a conduct hearing without a discipline record.*​ 
    (*past results not necessarily indicative of future results)

About Brooke MacKenzie

Brooke advises and represents clients in professional regulation matters and in appeals and judicial review applications, and provides advice and opinions to lawyers and law firms on professional responsibility and legal ethics issues. She has been recognized in Best Lawyers™ in Canada in administrative and public law.

 

Brooke has significant experience as appeal counsel—having appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, Court of Appeal for Ontario, Federal Court of Appeal, Divisional Court, and administrative appeal tribunals—and as counsel on professional negligence actions and disqualification motions.

 

In addition to her practice, Brooke is a regular columnist at Slaw.ca on legal ethics issues; teaches an upper-year Legal Ethics seminar at Osgoode Hall Law School; and serves as duty counsel for licensees at the Law Society Tribunal. Her writing on legal ethics, civil procedure, and tort law has been widely published.

 

Before going out on her own, Brooke spent several years on Bay Street working with and learning from some of Ontario's best litigators and the top legal minds in the areas of legal ethics and professional responsibility. 

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When not practising law, Brooke enjoys live music; crossword puzzles; road trips to national parks and ballparks across the US and Canada; exploring Toronto on her bike; and watching Jeopardy!—a lifelong fan of the show, Brooke was a contestant and became a Jeopardy! champion in February 2020.

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