Lori M. Duffy

Lori Duffy is senior counsel in the National Tax Group. She assists clients with managing and transferring their assets through the use of business succession plans, trusts and wills. Her practice also includes all areas of trusts, wills and estate administration, including work under the Substitute Decisions Act. Lori is the Ontario editor of the Estate & Trust Reports (Carswell). She is a member of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), a director of the Martin Family Initiative, a member of the Advisory Task Force on Planned Giving for St. Michael’s Hospital Foundation, and a past president of the Canadian Association of Women Executives and Entrepreneurs. Lori is also a former Adjunct Professor at University of Toronto Law School teaching the Wills and Estates law course. She has been a seminar instructor at the Bar Admission course and has lectured in many seminars for the Canadian Bar Association, the Ontario Bar Association, the Law Society of Ontario, The Canadian Institute and the International Bar Association. Lori is a recipient of Lexpert Zenith Award: Celebrating Women Leaders in the Legal Profession.