Team

Conner carries on a broad-based civil litigation and administrative law practice with a focus on municipal and planning matters, property-related disputes, expropriations, and complex commercial litigation. He is an advocate who has successfully acted as counsel in trials and hearings before all levels of Court in Ontario and the Supreme Court of Canada. He has also appeared before a wide range of administrative tribunals, including the Ontario Land Tribunal, the National Energy Board, the Ontario Labour Relations Board, the Toronto Local Appeal Body, and the Office of the Surveyor General.

In the course of his practice, Conner has developed a subspecialty in representing parties to assessments before the Assessment Office of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. He has successfully represented both counsel and clients in the assessment of accounts. He was counsel in one of the only recent assessments of an arbitrator’s account, and obtained the assessment of another account to zero - an unprecedented result.

Conner earned his law degree from the University of Manitoba in 2013, graduating with the University Gold Medal in Law for the highest grade point average in his class. He earned several other awards and academic prizes and was selected to represent the University of Manitoba at the Laskin Moot Court competition. Conner served as a law clerk to the Honourable Madam Justice Elizabeth Heneghan of the Federal Court of Canada for the 2013-2014 term, and prior to that was selected to clerk for the Judges of the Manitoba Court of Appeal during his final year of law school. While serving as a law clerk Conner was part of a team that placed second in the annual Exchequer Cup law clerks moot competition.

Conner is a co-author, with Leah Cummings, of The Annotated Conservation Authorities Act. This is the first publication that comprehensively reviews Conservation Authorities and their regulatory powers over land in Ontario. 

Known particularly for his written advocacy, Conner also works as a professional Editor and an author. He provides these services as a consultant both to other lawyers and authors of fiction and non-fiction works.

Conner acts as a Trial Advocacy Advisor for the Law Practice Program administered by Toronto Metropolitan University, where he provides mentorship and guidance to new lawyers in building their advocacy skills.

Outside the office Conner enjoys spending time with his wife Kayla and their newborn daughter, as well as two unruly Shiba Inus and a Jindo. He can often be found studying at the “law library” (aka surfing) in search of the perfect Great Lakes wave.