ABOUT RICHARD SHEKTER
Richard
Shekter is recognized as one of Canada’s leading litigators. As the founding
senior partner of the firm Shekter, Dychtenberg LLP in Toronto, he practises in
the field of criminal, civil, health, personal injury, corporate, medical malpractice,
employment law and administrative litigation.
He is general counsel to the College of Massage Therapists of Ontario and the
College of Dental Technologists of Ontario and also appears regularly before
other health colleges representing a variety of health care and other
professionals including physicians, dentists, and nurses. In May of 1998 Mr.
Shekter became the second recipient of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association -
H. Bruce T. Hillyer Award for Outstanding Advocacy. Mr. Shekter appears
regularly on television and radio as a legal commentator. He writes and
lectures widely on legal matters, in particular expert evidence, and was the
legal affairs columnist for Family Practice, a McLean-Hunter Publication. Mr.
Shekter is a former Director of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association and The
Advocates’ Society, is a former vice-chairman of the Civil Liberties Section of
the Ontario Bar Association, past Chairman of the Health Law Section of the
Ontario Bar Association, a Canadian delegate to the Council of the Association
of Trial Lawyers of America, a member of the Criminal Lawyers Association, the
Association of Trial Lawyers of America, the Ontario Trial Lawyers' Association,
the Metropolitan Toronto Lawyer's Association, the Medico-Legal Society and The
Advocates’ Society. Richard delivers top quality programming with Seminar Partners including the critically acclaimed program Presenting and Challenging Expert Witnesses at Trial.
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