Counsel Profile

Graham T. Clark has been defending peoples’ liberty in Ontario courtrooms since first year law school in 1994. He has been practicing criminal law ever since – exclusively criminal defence law for over 2 decades at the bar.

In a “free and democratic” society, criminal lawyers play a crucial role in upholding the rule of law, as the final bulwark against the misuse and abuse of power by officials of the state. But criminal lawyers only perform this service to society as a by-product of their immediate duty to defend the individual whose freedom is at stake – fearlessly, relentlessly and without judgement. No two cases are the same. No case is “less serious” for the individual who is charged. No case is too big or too strong to defend against.

Before becoming a criminal lawyer, Mr. Clark earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with High Distinction at the University of Toronto (1993, International Relations/Political Theory). He then attended Osgoode Hall Law School, focused on criminal law from the very start, and began courtroom defence work as a student caseworker in first year (1994).

Mr. Clark served his articles of clerkship at the Crown Law office – Criminal, which is the office of the Attorney General for Ontario that handles most serious Criminal Code appeals and prosecutions of police officers. There he was fortunate to be involved with hearings at the Supreme Court of Canada as well as the Court of Appeal for Ontario.

Mr. Clark was called to the Bar in 1998 and then went immediately into months of pre-trial motions as a junior defence lawyer on the so-called “Maple Leaf Gardens Sex Scandal”. During that formative experience Mr. Clark was fortunate to work with some of the most accomplished senior criminal defence lawyers in Canada.

After many years in the criminal courts of Toronto, Mr. Clark is now happily located in North Bay, offering over 2 decades of experience and expertise derived from practising exclusively criminal defence law. Mr. Clark can navigate virtually anything an accused person might be up against – from shoplifting to homicide, from overturning a denial of bail to overturning convictions at Ontario’s highest court of appeal, from quashing search warrants and wire-tap authorizations to protecting you from becoming a wrongly convicted sex offender. Let an expert handle it.