Full Service Legal

Reeves Richarz, LLP is a Canadian full-service law firm serving corporate and personal law needs. With a long history of serving Canada’s property and casualty insurers, institutions that self-insure property and casualty risks, we now bring that level of detail and diligence to issues such as real estate, family law, wills and estates, and private matters.

With offices in Toronto, Hamilton, and Cayuga, Ontario, our firm serves clients throughout the province and across Canada.

Our Leadership in the Insurance Community

Throughout our nearly four decades of serving property and casualty insurers, our perspective has been forward-looking. We anticipate and plan for changing conditions in the insurance environment. Reeves Richarz, LLP provides our client community with in-house training and education on developing issues and trends. We also share our legal knowledge with the broader insurance community.

For example, we regularly serve as instructors for the Insurance Institute of Ontario and have developed and presented programs that lead the industry on issues such as personal injury compensation, environmental law and insurance, and subrogation trends and best practices. In addition, the insurance community frequently calls on us to present on current legal issues to organizations such as:

• Canadian Insurance Claims Managers Association
• Ontario Insurance Adjusters Association
• Insurance Institutes of Canada and Ontario

• Insurance Bureau of Canada
• Canadian Insurance Adjusters Association

• Ontario Mutual Insurance Association
• Ontario Risk and Insurance Management Society

Our contributions to the insurance industry extend beyond claims matters. Working with industry and government, Reeves Richarz, LLP has led and supported initiatives that result in better delivery of services to our mutual customers, the people who pay insurance premiums. These initiatives include the following:

• Developing one of the most successful insurance products in Canada, the OEF 44, which offers great value to customers and a sound business proposition for insurers (approx 300 million contracts sold)
• Providing counsel on how insurers and government should interact on regulatory concerns arising out of claims transactions
• Providing counsel to industry on auto insurance reform
• Leading industry-wide negotiations with healthcare stakeholders

• Providing government with a legislative and regulatory framework to make insurance more affordable for households with high-risk drivers (i.e., developing the excluded driver model)
• Appearing before legislative committees, locally and abroad, on insurance-related issues
• Providing specialty insurers with leading-edge policy language
• Supporting reform initiatives in several provinces

• The Advocates’ Society
• Toronto Legal Association
• Defense Research Institute

• The Law Society of Upper Canada
• Canadian Bar Association

• The Hamilton Law Association
• Canadian Defence Lawyers

Our Leadership in the Legal Community

Reeves Richarz, LLP is known for its leadership in the legal community.

More than 20 years ago, Lee Samis founded Canadian Defence Lawyers, the preeminent association representing the interests of Canadian insurance defence lawyers. His contribution is honoured with the organization’s Lee Samis Award of Excellence, presented each year to a Canadian defense lawyer in recognition of exceptional contributions or achievements.

Lawyers in the firm have also held leadership roles in the Canadian Bar Association, Canadian Defence Lawyers and the Defense Research Institute Board of Directors.

In addition, Reeves Richarz, LLP is recognized for its contributions to the professional development of the wider legal community. Our lawyers are frequently invited to present to professional groups, including:

General Litigation, Real Estate and Corporate Commerical Legal Services

Although Reeves Richarz, LLP is well known and has deep roots in the insurance community, we have a wide range of skills sets available in matters involving non-insurance litigation including commercial, family, estates and real estate remedies.

We also know that the demand for legal services is not always premised on conflict. We recognize our clients have a range of legal needs whether it be incorporating a company, selling or buying a house or estate planning. If you have any of the following legal needs, we can help:

Wills
Domestic Contracts
Business Incorporation
Real Estate transactions
Real estate purchase and sale

Find out how our breadth of experience can help you.

Our Leadership in the Wider Community

At Reeves Richarz, LLP , we believe that we all share a responsibility to contribute to the needs of the community in which we live and work. We are proud to support and participate in a wide variety of worthy endeavors, including:

• Starlight Children’s Foundation Insurance Gala, an annual event to raise money to improve the life and health of kids and families around the world
• Camp Ooch, serving children with and affected by cancer
• CANFAR AIDSbeat, an annual “Battle of the Bands” to support Canada’s only national organization dedicated to privately funding HIV and AIDS research
• Sleep Tight Campaign, a campaign to collect new pajamas that are distributed to people in need in Waterloo Region

Throughout our nearly four decades of serving property and casualty insurers, our perspective has been forward-looking. We anticipate and plan for changing conditions in the insurance environment.