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I graduated from McGill University with a B. A. with honours in political science in 1971 and then Graduated from McGill University with LLB. in 1974 and was called to the Bar in Ontario in 1976.

In the late 1970’s I taught a basic law course at Algonquin College and produced the booklet "Starting Your Own Business". I was one of the instructors for the commercial law section of the Bar Admissions Course for the Law Society of Upper Canada in Ottawa from 1998- 2005.

I an active member of S.T.E.P. (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) (Canada) and a past chair of the Ottawa branch and a former member of the national board of directors. I served as the programming chair before becoming Chair of the Branch.

I hold the designation of TEP.

I sat for several years on the Board of Advisors of the National Capital American Chamber of Commerce Chapter.

I received my Certified Specialist designation in Corporate and Commercial Law in October 2004 from the Law Society of Upper Canada. I currently am a member of the executive of the Business Law section of the OBA in the position of Chair. I previously sat on both the ethics and anti-corruption committees of the CBA. My practice is restricted to corporate and commercial and estate and tax planning-related matters.

Mary is one of the managing Partners of Basman Smith LLP, a full service downtown Toronto law firm of 23 lawyers. She was called to the Bar in 1986. Mary practices estates & trusts law and corporate/commercial law, focusing on creation of trusts, wills, powers of attorney for property, powers of attorney for personal care, estate administration as well as business acquisitions/dispositions, partnership agreements, shareholders’ agreements, corporate re-organizations, business succession planning, and estate freezes. As a member of a firm in which a one-third of the lawyers practice exclusively family law, Mary works closely with the family law lawyers to provide corporate, trust and estate advice in the review of clients’ assets, domestic contract files and in the settlement of litigious matters. Mary is a former instructor in Estate Planning at the Bar Admission Course and was a member of the Executive of the Ontario Bar Association, Trusts & Estates Section for eight years, the last several years as Chair of the Statutory Review Committee. Mary has presented at CLE programs for the OBA, LSUC, Osgoode Professional Development, and has spoken to a variety of private banking/investment and community groups. Mary is a member of STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Planners). Mary also is a volunteer lawyer at Pro Bono Student Services (U of T & Osgoode) Wills Project, which provides estate planning services for low income HIV+ and other needy clients and is a volunteer estate planning lawyer with Wellspring, a not-for-profit cancer support program.

Peter Straszynski is a Toronto employment & labour lawyer with over 20 years experience.

In both union and non-union settings, Peter assists his clients with all of their issues, from the hiring to the post-termination stages of employment.

Peter provides proactive advice to employers on contracts of employment, restrictive covenants, workplace policies, Employment Standards (and other legislative) compliance, strategic direction on discipline and termination, preparation and negotiation of severance packages, and the resolution of all manner of workplace disputes.

Peter represents his clients in various court and administrative tribunal proceedings, including wrongful dismissals, applications for injunctive relief, Employment Standards and Employment Insurance proceedings, as well as the defence of provincial charges under the Occupational Health and Safety Act.
Peter advises clients on human rights matters and, where necessary, represents them in proceedings before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.

In the union environment, Peter helps employers resist union certification attempts, deal with the daily administration of collective agreements, defend unfair labour practice complaints or other applications under the Labour Relations Act, and resolve or litigate grievances before boards of arbitration.