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Jeff Hirsch

Jeff is a graduate of the University of Manitoba, receiving his B.A. in International Relations in 1983 and his LLB in 1986. Called to the Bar in 1987, Jeff practices in Winnipeg as a partner with Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP, primarily in the areas of administrative law as well as commercial litigation, insolvency and aboriginal law.

His administrative law practice is centered on professional regulation for self-governing professions and he currently provides advice to a number of those professions as counsel to discipline and complaints committees, as a prosecutor, and with respect to policy development.  Jeff has also represented counsel on  professional negligence cases and has both prosecuted and defended members in Law Society proceedings.  

Jeff is a past President of the Law Society of Manitoba (2009-2010) and a Life Bencher having served from 2002 through 2010.  In 2008 and 2009, Jeff chaired the President’s Special Committee on the Independence of the Legal Profession. Jeff served as Chair of the Law Society’s Complaints Investigation, Discipline, Nominating and Equity Committees. Jeff has also served as a representative to the Community Legal Education Association and the Legal Data Resources (MB) Corporation. 
He is one of two Law Society representatives on the Queen’s Bench Statutory Rules Committee and continues to sit as a member of the Law Society’s Complaints Investigation Committee and Access Stakeholders Committee.  Jeff also serves on the Court of Queen’s Bench Access to Justice Committee.

Jeff is Manitoba’s representative on the Council of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada.  The Federation is the national coordinating body of the 14 Law Societies in Canada who have the responsibility to regulate Canada’s 95,000 lawyers.  He chairs the Federation’s Standing Committee on Access to Legal Services.  He also represents the Council on the National Discipline Standards Project Steering Committee and Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin’s National Action Committee on Access to Justice in Civil and Family Matters where he is a member of the Steering Committee.

Jeff has been a frequent lecturer and seminar leader in civil procedure, examinations for discovery, negotiation skills and ethics for the Law Society’s Bar Admission course (CPLED).  For the past seven years, Jeff has taught and continues to teach the third year Remedies course at the Faculty of Law at the University of Manitoba.

Jeff and his wife, Liz Murray, live in Winnipeg with their son, Davis.

Education

University of Manitoba, B.A., International Relations, 1984
University of Manitoba, LL.B., 1986

Call to the Bar

Manitoba, 1987

Legal Teachings

Third year Remedies course sessional lecturer for the University of Manitoba, Faculty of Law

Lecturer and learning group facilitator in civil procedure, advocacy, negotiation skills, motions practice and ethics for the bar admission (CPLED) program

Professional Associations

Immediate Past President and Life Bencher of The Law Society of Manitoba

Past Chair, President’s Special Committee on the Independence of the Legal Profession

Member and Past Chair of the Complaints Investigation, Discipline and Equity Committees of The Law Society of Manitoba

Member of the Queen’s Bench Statutory Rules Committee

Member of the Canadian Bar Association

Past Board Member of Community Legal Education Association and Bar Council of the Manitoba Bar Association

Community Involvement and Other Affiliations

Past Executive and Board Member of Manitoba Theatre Centre and Winnipeg Jewish Theatre