2023 LSO Bencher Elections
Learn about the candidates running for Bencher in Toronto. All candidates were sent a questionnaire. The table below highlights quick answers to a few of the questions, from those that responded. Any person whose name is a live link has responded to the FOLA questionnaire. Click here to see the responses from all candidates across the province.
To watch a replay of the Bencher Candidate Forum Q&A Session Recording, click here. To learn about candidates running outside of Toronto, check FOLA’s website.
Name | Are you an incumbent? | Will you support maintaining the LSO's current level of funding for the Legal Information and Resource Network (LiRN)? | Do you support offloading funding for LiRN/law libraries to the Law Foundation of Ontario? | Will you advocate for Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) funding? | Should paralegals’ scope of practice be expanded? | Should paralegals pay an annual competency levy? | |
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INDEPENDENTS | |||||||
Steve Benmor | Independent | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, the Law Society should look for additional areas to expand paralegal scope of practice | Yes |
Avy Ben-zvi | Independent | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, the Law Society should look for additional areas to expand paralegal scope of practice | Yes |
Charles Boulakia | Independent | No | Yes | No | Yes | No, it should remain as it was prior to December 1, 2022 | Yes |
Michael Cochrane | Independent | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Antoine Collins | Independent | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, the Law Society should look for additional areas to expand paralegal scope of practice | Yes |
Barry Corbin | Independent | No | |||||
Jeremy Glick | Independent | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, the Law Society should look for additional areas to expand paralegal scope of practice | Yes |
Sam Goldstein | Independent | Current Bencher | No | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Jonathan Miller | Independent | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
David Milosevic | Independent | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Mark Morris | Independent | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Jonathan Odumeru | Independent | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, the Law Society should look for additional areas to expand paralegal scope of practice | Yes |
Angela Ogang | Independent | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Mark Persaud | Independent | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Maxwell Radway | Independent | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, the Law Society should look for additional areas to expand paralegal scope of practice | Yes |
Caryma Sa’d | Independent | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Elliot P. Saccucci | Independent | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, the Law Society should look for additional areas to expand paralegal scope of practice | Yes |
FULL STOP | |||||||
Robert Adourian | Full Stop | Current Bencher | Yes | No | Yes | No, it should remain as it was prior to December 1, 2022 | No |
Sean Aylward | Full Stop | No | |||||
D. Jared Brown | Full Stop | Current Bencher | No | No | Yes | Yes, the Law Society should look for additional areas to expand paralegal scope of practice | Yes |
Joseph Chiummiento | Full Stop | Current Bencher | |||||
Sukhi Hansra | Full Stop | No | |||||
Sayeh Hassan | Full Stop | No | Yes | No | Yes | No, it should remain as it was prior to December 1, 2022 | No |
Phil Horgan | Full Stop | Current Bencher | No | No | Yes | No, it should remain as it was prior to December 1, 2022 | Yes |
Kara Johnson | Full Stop | No | |||||
Murray Klippenstein | Full Stop | Current Bencher | |||||
Howard Levitt | Full Stop | No | |||||
Jorge Pineda | Full Stop | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | No |
Lubomir Poliacik | Full Stop | Current Bencher | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Geoff Pollock | Full Stop | No | Yes | No | Yes | No, it should be reduced | Yes |
Mark Quail | Full Stop | No | |||||
Chi-Kun Shi | Full Stop | Current Bencher | |||||
Pamela Taylor | Full Stop | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
GOOD GOVERNANCE | |||||||
John Callaghan | Good Governance | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Gerald Chan | Good Governance | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Rebecca Durcan | Good Governance | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, the Law Society should look for additional areas to expand paralegal scope of practice | Yes |
Annamaria Enenajor | Good Governance | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Heather Hansen | Good Governance | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, the Law Society should look for additional areas to expand paralegal scope of practice | Yes |
Pam Hrick | Good Governance | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Shalini Konanur | Good Governance | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Atrisha Lewis | Good Governance | Current Bencher | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, the Law Society should look for additional areas to expand paralegal scope of practice | Yes |
Will McDowell | Good Governance | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Isfahan Merali | Good Governance | Current Bencher | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, the Law Society should look for additional areas to expand paralegal scope of practice | Yes |
Catherine Rhinelander | Good Governance | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, the Law Society should look for additional areas to expand paralegal scope of practice | Yes |
Jonathan Rosenthal | Good Governance | Current Bencher | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Stephen Rotstein | Good Governance | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | No |
Julia Shin Doi | Good Governance | Current Bencher | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Megan Shortreed | Good Governance | Current Bencher | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Mark Surchin | Good Governance | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes, the Law Society should look for additional areas to expand paralegal scope of practice | Yes |
Sidney Troister, LSM | Good Governance | Current Bencher | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | No |
Margaret Waddell | Good Governance | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Tanya Walker | Good Governance | Current Bencher | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |
Peter Wardle | Good Governance | No | Yes | No | Yes | It should be expanded no further than the FLSP | Yes |