Market Leadership

Adler Bytensky Prutschi Shikhman's market leadership in Toronto-area criminal law begins with the firm's partners.

ABP lawyers are known as some of the brightest minds in the Toronto legal community. Leo Adler has long been recognized as the leading expert in the use of DNA in criminal proceedings. He is also a professor of Trial Advocacy at Osgoode Hall Law School. Boris Bytensky is the founder and President of the Russian-Speaking Lawyers Association. He too is an instructor in the Trial Advocacy program at Osgoode Hall Law School. Edward Prutschi is one of a small group of lawyers who are certified as a qualified breath technician - the very same designation held by police officers who operate the Intoxilyzer machines in impaired driving cases. He is also a past instructor and examiner for criminal law at the Law Society's Bar Admission Course for new lawyers.

The lawyers of ABPS are well-known and recognized at courthouses all over the Greater Toronto Area. For thirty years, the firm's lawyers have cultivated strong working relationships with crown attorneys and judges.

The firm has shown leadership in dealing with the exponentially expanding paperwork the criminal justice system generates. "Most criminal practitioners, while they may be very good in court, have a gap in their training when it comes to dealing with the big paper files. And business and professionalism in those types of things are sometimes not taught directly to criminal practitioners," explains Edward Prutschi. It may seem like a small matter, but staying on top of paperwork helps ABP achieve market leadership in the Toronto criminal law field.

The lawyers of ABPS possess a wealth of experience in the criminal justice system conducting trials and appeals at every level of court in Ontario and at the Supreme Court of Canada. The firm's lawyers have even been sought out by clients outside of Ontario to represent them on cases of particular complexity or importance in other Provinces.

ABPS lawyers have been cited in hundreds of important legal decisions including ones dealing with new areas in impaired driving law, domestic abuse, homicides, and the most recent developments in the Youth Criminal Justice Act.

"We always fight as hard as we can to win a case. We always begin from the starting point that we can win any case, if we put in the effort that needs to be put in and we cover off the angles that we need to cover," ABP partner Edward Prutschi confidentially explains.

LawyerShop trusts Adler Bytensky Prutschi to meet your criminal law needs because of the firm's proven market leadership in Toronto-area criminal law.