Luisa Ritacca

Luisa Ritacca’s practice encompasses a wide variety of areas, including administrative law and civil and commercial litigation. She has been a partner since 2006 and a member of the firm’s management committee since 2008. In 2018, she became managing partner. In February 2016, she received an Order-in-Council appointment as a part-time member of the Licence Appeal Tribunal. She is counsel for the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sports and has appeared on a number of anti-doping cases over the last several years. In addition, she acts for students facing academic and non-academic related charges at secondary and post-secondary institutions throughout Ontario. Further, she acts as independent legal counsel for a number of regulated health colleges and administrative tribunals throughout the province. In that role, she provides substantive and procedural advice during hearings as well as ongoing training for adjudicators. In 2013, she was appointed by former Chief Justice Warren Winkler to act as court monitor in the administration of two pan-Canadian settlements involving the tainted blood scandal, as well as the settlement involving water contamination in Walkerton, Ontario.