Toronto Civil Litigation Lawyer
Toronto Civil Litigation lawyer Christopher Stienburg specializes in civil litigation for all types of business disputes, personal injury litigation, and other civil litigation matters. As an experienced civil litigator, he has represented his clients in complex estates litigation, elder abuse litigation, and employment law litigation.
Commercial Litigation Lawyer | Business Litigation Lawyer
Commercial disputes in the world of business can be both time consuming and expensive. Sometimes, in spite of best efforts to settle business disputes in an amicable and expeditious way, the parties cannot come to agreement and the matter proceeds to trial through Ontario’s court system.
Commercial litigation lawyer Christopher Stienburg can help, whether you have a claim of breach of contract, a shareholder dispute, allegations of fraud, or need the legal remedy of an injunction.
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Real Estate Litigation Lawyer
For many people, buying a house, cottage, or investment property is a large and important purchase. A lot of time, energy, and money is at stake; you need to have it go smoothly. There are many things that can and do go wrong when you are buying property.
We have all seen the botched renovations on television. Or, you may have discovered that your home has rodent or insect problems. As many have learned, there is no such thing as a simple real estate problem. Toronto Real Estate Litigation lawyer Christopher Stienburg can assist you when you need to take legal action, even if you have to proceed to a trial.
Toronto Real Estate litigation lawyer Christopher Stienburg can help you with these specific real estate services:
- Boundary Disputes
- Claims against Brokers, Agents, Vendors, Sellers, Purchasers and Mortgage
Lenders - Construction Defects
- Commission Disputes, against Toronto Real Estate Brokers
- Commission Disputes, against Toronto Mortgage Brokers
- Latent Defects (Hidden Problems) in Home Purchased
- Misrepresentation by Broker or Agent
- Misrepresentations about
- Profitability of Investment Property
- Misrepresentation by Seller about Property
- Misrepresentations on Warranties
- Mortgage Enforcement
- Pre-Construction Sale of Property – Failure or Refusal to Close
- Sale of Real Estate – Failure to Close
- Sale of Real Estate – Refusal to Close
- Title Disputes
- Valuation Disputes
- Warranty Disputes
If your matter is urgent and you need an injunction, mandatory orders, or a stay of sale, contact Christopher Stienburg right away.
Personal Injury Lawyer
When you have been injured due to someone else’s negligence, you need an experienced personal injury lawyer to advocate for you.
People need a personal injury lawyer is to fight with bureaucracy, mostly big insurance companies and sometimes the proverbial City Hall. Personal injury as a legal practice area includes motor vehicle accidents, slip-and-falls, assaults, and more.
If you have been hurt, have pain, need rehabilitation, are facing large medical costs, have lost income because you are unable to work and therefore cannot pay your expenses, and you worry about your future, contact experienced Toronto Personal Injury lawyer Christopher Stienburg, who can help you get the compensation you need to help get your life on track.
The legal concept underpinning personal injury law is to help get you money to “make you whole” again.
Human Rights Lawyer
Human Rights lawyer Christopher Stienburg can help you if you have been the victim of:
Racial discrimination – discrimination due to ancestry, colour, race, ethnic origin, creed, citizenship;
Sexual discrimination – gender identity, gender expression, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual, transgender, intersex, queer, questioning, two-spirit, asexual (LGBTQ2S);
Disability discrimination – failure to accommodate a person with an intellectual or physical disability, or failure to accommodate a caregiver to a person with a disability; and
Harassment – unwanted sexual touching, unwanted comments and jokes, bullying, and cyberbullying using social media.
Canada and Ontario both have passed legislation that protects citizens’ human rights. The majority of Ontario workplaces are governed by the Ontario Human Rights Code (OHRC).
Workplaces that are federally regulated are governed by the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA). All employees have the right to be free from human rights violations under these two Acts. Contact Human Rights lawyer Christopher Stienburg to learn your legal options and the best way forward.
It is illegal for employers under both OHRC and CHRA to discriminate against employees (or terminate or refuse to hire employees) on prohibited grounds. Unfortunately, employers don’t always follow the law.
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Professional Negligence Lawyer
You hired an architect to design a house, an accountant to oversee your financial affairs, a financial advisor to manage your investments, a structural engineer to repair your home’s failing basement, a plastic surgeon to perform elective surgery, or a lawyer to help solve a legal problem. But now, things have not gone swimmingly. And that’s not all.
Someone you trusted to solve a problem has, in fact, caused you even more headaches! Things have gone so badly that you are thinking of suing them for professional negligence.
Professional Negligence lawyer Christopher Stienburg can advise you if a professional you hired behaved so badly that you are entitled to a legal remedy through the court system:
- Failed to meet the professional standard of care
- Has a conflict of interest
- Has breached a fiduciary (or other duty) owed to you
- Did not warn you of facts you needed to know to make choices before any problem happened
- Has breached a contract you both entered into.
Contact us at (416) 601-6801 or submit a callback request.
Let us know what you would like to discuss and we will call you back Monday to Friday between 9 AM and 5 PM once we have reviewed your situation.