Welcome to Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP, Canada’s leading environmental law firm. Five of our lawyers are Environmental Law Specialists, certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Willms & Shier represents clients on a full range of environmental, Aboriginal and energy law issues. For more than 35 years, our clients have relied on our extensive legal knowledge, experience and mastery of environmental issues.

We find practical, actionable legal solutions for complex environmental law challenges. We guide companies to environmental due diligence in managing industrial operations, contaminated land clean-up, transactions and lawsuits. We work with environmental engineering and planning consultants, business lawyers, municipalities and provincial ministries to find practical solutions and allocate responsibility and liability for clean-up and loss of property value.

We represent clients in civil litigation trials and at regulatory prosecutions and tribunal hearings. We assist First Nations, Métis, industry, and government organizations in consultation, regulatory, commercial, governance and policy-setting. We negotiate impact benefit agreements, develop consultation protocols, navigate the environmental approval and assessment process, and structure commercial partnerships. We have been instrumental in assisting First Nations to obtain procurement programs to promote economic development on First Nations lands.

We understand the challenges inherent in renewable energy generation in Ontario. We advise proponents in planning, structuring and implementing renewable energy projects.

We are known for our exceptional commitment to responsiveness and customer service.