Meet Mitchell C. Brown

Mitch is a partner in our appellate advocacy, dispute resolution and advocacy, and health law groups. With experience in both jury and judge-alone trials, appeals, private arbitrations, and before numerous tribunals, Mitch offers his clients a wealth of strategic insight.

For businesses and shareholders, Mitch helps navigate problems of all sizes - from Board friction and contract disputes to bet-the-company litigation - and always with a lens catered to the client’s strategic goals.

For health professionals, Mitch provides a steady hand to guide them through regulatory proceedings, investigations, and civil lawsuits, vigorously defending their professional work.

For private individuals and organizations, Mitch offers advice and representation across a range of traditional litigation matters as well as alternative dispute resolution processes, helping clients find their best path through conflict.

• Partner, Lerners LLP (2024)
• Associate Lawyer, Lerners LLP (2021-2023)
• Associate Lawyer, Lenczner Slaght LLP (2019-2021)
• Articling Student, Lenczner Slaght LLP (2018-2019)
• Summer Student, Lenczner Slaght LLP (2017)
• SSHRC Graduate Researcher (McGill University) (2014-2015)
• Infantry Officer, Canadian Armed Forces (Gagetown, NB) (2011-2012)

• MacQuarrie v. Proulx, 2023 ONCA 625: Counsel to a private homeowner successful in defending her title lands against an adverse possession claim by a neighbouring land owner.
• HRDownloads v HRCovered Inc., et al, 2022 ONSC 2302: Counsel to a start-up company successful in defeating a multi-day injunction brought by a large competitor (leave to appeal also dismissed).
• Martin v. Giesbrecht Griffin Funk & Irvine LLP and Lavergne, 2022 ONSC 1684: Counsel to a private farmer successful in bringing a claim against his former lawyer for negligence.
• Libfeld v. Libfeld (2021 ONSC 4670): Counsel to applicants in a family partnership dispute involving a large residential real-estate development group in Toronto.
• Bayer Inc. v Onsight Pharmacy Group Inc., et al: Counsel to defendant pharmacies in a dispute involving specialty ophthalmic pharmaceuticals.
• Confidential Commercial Arbitration: Counsel to respondents in a family partnership dispute concerning multiple high-value residential real-estate holdings in downtown Toronto.
• Confidential Sports Arbitration: Counsel to applicant (athlete) in a carding dispute with their National Sport Organization.

• The Advocates' Society
• Canadian Bar Association
• Ontario Bar Association
• Middlesex Law Association
• PEN Canada

• Guest Lecturer, “Law, Literature, and Narrative Lives”, Golden State University, March 22, 2022
• Guest Lecturer, “Human Rights in Tension”, King’s University College, November 9, 2021
• Guest Speaker, “Virtual Advocacy Tips and Strategy”, Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law, March 17, 2021
• Co-Author “Law Reform: Literature should not be overlooked by lawyers”, The Lawyers Daily, September 6, 2018.
• Author, “Human Rights and Postwar Internationalism in The Third Man”, Around 1945: Literature, Citizenship, Rights, Ed. Allan Hepburn, Queens UP (2016).

• Admitted to the Ontario Bar (2019)
• Juris Doctor, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University (2018)
• Masters of Arts, McGill University (2015)
• Honours Bachelors of Arts, Western University (2011)