A year ago I bet my career on a single proposition: health professionals facing Colleges deserve lawyers who actually understand their world. The clients came with me from day one. That said more than any business plan could. What I brought to the table was different by design, and built from a vantage point few have. A pharmacy degree before the law degree. Years on the prosecution side, building the exact kind of OCP files I now defend against. A Supreme Court clerkship, a masters from the University of Cambridge focusing on regulatory law. And a deliberate decision to build something that didn’t really exist yet. RxLaw is now three lawyers, an articling student, a consultant, and a law clerk. We’ve built out to more than representing pharmacists , and now represent multiple health professions. We carry some of the most complex health law files in the country. None of that happened because we worked harder. It happened because when an investigator questions a clinical decision, we already know what the health professional was weighing. Drug interactions, patient history, harm reduction context. We don’t need it explained. We build the defense from inside the clinical logic and professional practice, not around it. Because we don’t have to learn it. We’ve lived it.
Year two is already moving. There’s a lot coming—including a conversation with pharmacy students at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto in 2 weeks about what it actually means to have your license on the line, and podcast with The Pharmacists Are In at Pharmacy U Toronto in April. Thank you to everyone who’s supported me and the firm in this first year: OnPharm-United, Michael N., Sherif Guorgui (FFIP), Peter A. Saad, Ontario Pharmacists Association, Justin J. Bates, ICD.D, Kristen Watt, RPh ICD.D, Kathleen Leach, Connie Beck, Martin Rissin, Faddy Morgan, Anthony Grande, Shelita Dattani, PharmD, Linda Prytula, and so many more. I know that there are many of our cleints, friends and supporters I haven’t named, but thank you all. We are truly grateful to you for everything, and we always have your back.
