Lawyer Profile
Signe Leisk
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Signe Leisk* is a partner in the Litigation Group at Cassels and serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Municipal, Planning & Environmental Group and Chair of the Universities & Colleges Group. Signe’s practice encompasses all aspects of municipal, land use planning and environmental law, with a particular focus on land development. She has extensive experience representing both private sector builders and developers as well as municipalities and public institutions. Signe appears regularly before the Ontario Land Tribunal (formerly the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal) and the courts, with significant experience in mediation. Signe is recognized as a leader in her field by Chambers Canada, which notes that clients consider her “the best legal mind in the room.” Signe has authored numerous articles on municipal and planning law and is a co-author of three leading texts: Municipal and Planning Law in Canada, 2nd Edition (Thomson Carswell), Canadian Forms & Precedents-Municipal Law (LexisNexis), and Canadian Forms & Precedents – Land Development (LexisNexis). Signe is a sessional lecturer at the Toronto Metropolitan University School of Urban and Regional Planning, Masters of Planning (Urban Development) program. She has also guest lectured at Western University Faculty of Law, University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Department of Geography and the Queen’s University School of Urban and Regional Planning.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2002 (ON)