Overview

Emily Lawrence is the Managing Partner of Paliare Roland and maintains a busy litigation and advisory practice. Emily is trusted advisor and advocate for regulatory bodies, pension boards, employers, and partnerships, with substantial expertise in professional regulation, pension governance and pension-related litigation, commercial disputes, partnerships and employment matters, constitutional litigation, and privacy matters. Emily is recognized as an expert in administrative law, as counsel appearing before numerous administrative law tribunals, the co-author of a book on administrative law practice, a sought-after presenter on the topic, and was adjunct faculty in administrative law at Osgoode Hall Law School. She has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario and at the Supreme Court of Canada.

Prior to becoming Managing Partner, Emily held various leadership roles within the firm. She is an active mentor and contributor within the legal community, including acting as a chair of the Mid-Career Standing Committee of The Advocates’ Society in 2021-2022, and as a presenter on administrative law, professional regulation, pensions governance, and litigation skills development.

Emily is ranked by Chambers Canada in Litigation: Administrative and Public law, by Best Lawyers in Canada in the areas of Administrative and Public law, Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Employee Benefits Law, Health Care Law, and Labour and Employment law, and by Benchmark Litigation Canada as a “Litigation Star” in Administrative Law, Constitutional Law, and Employment Law. She is also Consistently Recommended for Litigation (Regulatory & Public Law) by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. Emily was named “Lawyer of the Year in Administrative and Public Law” for Toronto by the Best Lawyers in in Canada Guide 2026.

Practice Areas

• Administrative Law
• Labour Law
• Civil Litigation
• Professional Malpractice
• Corporate & Commercial Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 2006 (ON)