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Joni Dobson is the principal lawyer at MD Lawyers. Joni represents people across Ontario who are seriously injured through medical malpractice. Joni takes an agile, but no-nonsense approach to litigation. She believes an injured person deserves a strong advocate who will go the full distance to obtain fair results. Every day, Joni is inspired by her clients’ approaches to their challenges. She strives to ensure they understand all aspects of their cases, lending her strength to them as they navigate the legal world. Joni is drawn to medical malpractice as a challenging and fulfilling area of law. The medical malpractice cases she litigates include surgical errors, stroke, infectious disease, delayed diagnosis or misdiagnosis, infectious disease and birth injuries. Practical both in her roles as a litigator and in her personal life, Joni raises chickens, and grows fresh organic produce.
Peter Kryworuk is a Partner at Lerners LLP and Leader of the firm’s Health Law Practice Group. He is certified as a Specialist in Civil Litigation by the Law Society of Upper Canada and is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He has a wide civil litigation and appellate practice which includes medical and professional negligence, personal injury and insurance litigation, product liability litigation, commercial litigation and class action litigation. He has been included in the Best Lawyers in Canada since 2006 and was selected as their Lawyer of the Year – Health Care Law London/Windsor for 2016, Lawyer of the Year – Product Liability Law London/Windsor for 2017 and Lawyer of the Year – Class Action Litigation London/Windsor for 2018. He was selected as one of Canada’s leading Litigation Lawyers by Lexpert\Report on Business. He has been recognized by Lexpert as a leading lawyer in the areas in Medical Negligence, Personal Injury, Product Liability, Professional Liability and Commercial Insurance litigation. He was senior co-counsel for the plaintiffs in Anderson vs. St. Jude Medical, Canada’s first medical device product liability class action common issues trial. He has written and lectured extensively in his areas of practice. He obtained his LLB from the University of Windsor in 1982 and was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1984. He is a member of the Board of The Advocates’ Society and has volunteered for many charities and community organizations including London Health Sciences Centre, London Health Sciences Foundation, London Community Foundation, Fanshawe College Foundation, Canadian Medical Hall of Fame and London Ukrainian Centre.
Andrew is a partner at Lerners LLP, where he is a member of the Plaintiff Personal Injury Practice Group and Appellate Law Group. He has been helping plaintiffs for over 20 years. He is certified by The Law Society of Upper Canada as a specialist in civil litigation. He is a member of The Advocates' Society and a past co-chair of The Advocates’ Society’s personal injury and insurance law practice group. Andrew is a Past President of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association. He also maintains memberships in the Canadian Bar Association, the Medical-Legal Society of Toronto, The American Association of Justice, the Head Injury Association of London & District, and the Middlesex Law Association. Andrew’s focus is civil litigation, with an emphasis on motor vehicle, personal injury, and LTD litigation. He also maintains a small quasi-criminal law, practice, acting as defence counsel and often as a “prosecutor-for-hire” on behalf of municipalities for by-law and provincial offence prosecutions. Andrew is profiled in the Lexpert Canadian Legal Directory, being identified as a leading practitioner in personal injury.