Creative lawyers for creative clients
We help you innovate.
Our team has helped creative businesses succeed for more than 20 years. We don’t think of ourselves as just lawyers – we are entrepreneurs, scientists, engineers, artists, and creators. We understand the challenges of innovation, and we are passionate about solving your problems so you can take care of your business. Our mission is to provide you with high quality advocacy to fit your needs.
Our lawyers, agents, and staff have worked with a variety of industries that require creativity and ingenuity. Our familiarity with your industry gives us a head start in dealing with your legal and business concerns. We quickly understand the issues and motivations of our clients and opposing parties. We pride ourselves in finding practical solutions to tough problems, no matter the size.
No matter your industry.
Life Sciences
We protect and litigate IP rights relating to pharmaceuticals, biologics, medical devices, natural health products, food and beverage, agriculture, and more. We can help you navigate complex regulatory and policy issues and overcome obstacles for a successful product launch.
Technology
We can help you secure and assert IP rights for a wide range of technologies. Our team has experience with numerous fields, including software, telecommunications, gaming, sports betting, 3D scanning, food processing, fire suppression systems, and others. We can also help you monetize your portfolio of IP assets.
Media & Entertainment
We leverage years of experience and deep connections in the entertainment industry to deliver innovative and practical legal services to artists and entertainment-driven businesses. We help clients handle a wide array of agreements, intellectual property, and litigation matters related to music, film and TV, gaming, books, and more.
Indigenous & Aboriginal
We provide creative yet practical representation for clients on a range of matters including land claims, treaty and aboriginal rights under s. 35 of the Constitution Act, 1982, and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). We have advised clients on the duty to consult and accommodate, indigenous self-governance, financing and economic development, and the structuring of organizations.
Energy & Clean Tech
Our work includes patent protection and litigation for clients in the clean tech industry, oil and gas industry, as well as environmental litigation. Our lawyers have experience at National Energy Board hearings and assisting clients in the alternative energy sector, including wind and solar power.
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Join us.
Gilbert’s welcomes applications from outstanding students, lawyers, agents, law clerks and staff. We bring together fun, smart, talented people from a diversity of backgrounds.
Our mission is to deliver legal services that empower clients to grow their business and to exercise, enforce and protect their rights.
Our vision is to promote successful, equitable, and sustainable futures for businesses, organizations, and the people, land, and water that form our communities.
Our core values include:
- Respect – Everybody deserves to be seen, heard, and acknowledged
- Integrity – We say what we do, we do what we say
- Honesty – We practice to uphold the highest standards of the profession
Do you share our values? Then send us your resume and cover letter. Call our Toronto office at 416-703-1100, or email Christine Tapper, Director of Operations, at christine@gilbertslaw.ca.
If you are a law student, please read more about our student program and the recruitment process.