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EducationLakehead University, Bachelor of Arts, 1985 PracticeWith a wide range of litigation experience, including both appeal courts in Ontario (Divisional Court and Court of Appeal), and the Supreme Court of Canada in 2002, Stephen’s focus is litigation defence involving issues of occupier’s liability, hospital liability, municipal liability, or professional liability, child and family services institutional liability and liability and fault analysis. He also has experience in mediation and alternate dispute resolution. In addition to a thriving litigation practice, Stephen is also involved in assessing institutional frameworks, policies and procedures to assist clients in structuring their environments to best address the litigious world we live in. Specifically, he has been directly involved with credentialing issues involving mid-term revocations, as well as Quality of Care Committee issues within hospital settings. In addition, he has provided advice to municipalities on how to meet their obligations to the public as prescribed by Occupiers’ Liability Act and Municipal Act legislation in Ontario. MembershipsLaw Society of Upper Canada American Bar Association Professional and Community Interests
Board of Directors – Advocates’ Society – 2004 to 2007 From 1996 to 2000, Stephen periodically taught with David Eryou at Lakehead University, Thunder Bay on Managing the Risks of Professional Liability to Graduating Students in the School of Engineering. He has also taught the Errors and Omissions section for the CAIB program offered in Thunder Bay, and was a guest lecturer at the Dispute Resolution Program offered by Lakehead University. Since 1996, he has attended a number of continuing legal education sessions on municipal liability, motor vehicle litigation, insurance practices, and hospital liability. In the summer of 1999, he participated in the International Academy of Defence Counsel sponsored Defence Trial Academy course offered in Boulder, Colorado, which was designed to strengthen advocacy skills both outside and inside the court room. In spring of 2001 he presented at an Advocates’ Society session on the admissibility of expert evidence in the court room addressing practical issues of advancing Daubert motions. Over the past five years he has written several articles which were published in the Without Prejudice magazine, as well as participating in educational opportunities offered by the Thunder Bay Insurance industry, including adjusters and brokers. Since 2002, he has also been an active member and Director of the Thunder Bay Law Association, filling the ranks of the Executive Committee commencing in 2005, and will be President of the TBLA during 2008 and 2009. Related to his work with municipalities, Stephen has made a number of presentations throughout the province of Ontario to municipalities, insurance adjusters and brokers located in Simcoe County, Kingston, Coburg, Fort Frances and Thunder Bay on the Minimum Maintenance Standards applicable to Municipal Highways. Finally, in conjunction with his position as a Director of The Advocates’ Society, throughout the years 2005 to 2007, Stephen has been instrumental in having The Advocates’ Society offer educational programs to the Thunder Bay and Northwestern Ontario bar, including mentoring dinners involving the local judiciary as well as skills’ focussed programming.
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STEPHEN
J. WOJCIECHOWSKI, BA., LLB.