Clare E. Burns

Clare Burns is an experienced litigator who acts in complex and highly sensitive matters. Her practice focuses on trusts, estates, and capacity litigation. She has acted for estate trustees on passings of accounts seeking approval of commercial transactions involving assets with a value in excess of $1 billion. She also mediates and arbitrates matters of these kinds. She is actively engaged in the profession and broader community. She has been a director of The Advocates' Society and vice president of the National Association of Public Trustees and Guardians. She has taught estates, children’s law, and trial advocacy at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Western University Faculty of Law. She has spoken widely in a variety of venues, and has published many professional papers. Since 2018, she has been repeatedly recognized in Chambers HNW: The World’s Leading High Net Worth Advisors as a leading lawyer in the private wealth disputes – Canada category.