Areas of Practice

Richard Auger and Brenda Hollingsworth bring blue chip experience and customer service to Ottawa!

"After years of practicing with elite Toronto law firms, we are committed to delivering excellent legal services at excellent rates to clients in Ottawa and Eastern Ontario."

Our areas of practice include:

Criminal Law

We defend all types of criminal and regulatory charges, including homicide, impaired driving, tax evasion, fraud, theft and assault.
We will handle your emergency bail hearing, trial and all the steps in between!

Facing criminal charges may be the most daunting experience of your life. Our commitment is to explain the process to you, keep you informed, and deliver the best possible results.

Personal Injury Law (Read more...)

We represent adults and children who are injured in motor vehicle accidents as drivers, passengers or pedestrians. We help our clients obtain compensation after slips (or trips) and falls, defective products and many other types of accidents. We also help many clients who have been sexually abused recover money for their losses. Click here to see a list of some of the case we handle.

Financial compensation can go a long way to helping you and your loved ones cope with the aftermath of an injury.

"We strive to provide the most attentive, personal service to our injured clients available."

Business (Commercial) and Civil Litigation

We represent our clients in all types of law suits with insightful and cost-effective advice and strategy.

We will help you recover damages for injury to your person, property or reputation. We are currently handling claims for:

• defamation (libel and slander)
• breach of contract
• malicious prosecution
• employment disputes
• property insurance denials
• breach of non-competition clauses
• shareholder disputes
• negligent misrepresentation on the sale of a property

among others.

"We are able business litigators, too."

We will vigorously prosecute or defend your business case, including franchise disputes, breaches of contract and commercial lease issues.

Public Law

We have experience handling large-scale litigation, including class actions against large corporations or the government.

We acted in the well-publicized fight against the Province of Ontario to save Rideau Regional Centre. Read more in our Press Room.

We regularly represent young children facing difficulty at their school though the Child Advocacy Program.

We have acted in numerous public inquiries, including the Gomery Commission.