Lawrence M Weinberg

Larry Weinberg is a partner in the Toronto office of Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP and chair of the firm's Franchise Law Group. Since 1989 he has had a practice that specializes in franchise law and providing all necessary legal services to both dmestic and foreign franchisors. He currently serves as Chair of the IFA's Supplier Forum Advisory Board and is the only Canadian lawyer on the IFA Board of Directors. He also currently serves as Chair of the Canadian. Franchise Association's Legal and Legislative Committee and on the CFA Board of Directors. He is also currently Co-Chair of the International Bar Association's International Franchising Committee and a Past Chair of the Ontario Bar Association's Franchise Law Section. Larry was the founder of, and to date has organized and chaired, four Ontario Bar Association annual franchise law conferences. In 2006, he was the first Canadian lawyer to be appointed a Director of the ABA Forum's International Division and to a leadership role as a member of its Governing Committee. In 2009 he had the honor of being Co-chair of the ABA's 32nd Annual Forum on Franchising conference. In 2004 he acted as coeditor of the first edition of the ABA Forum on Franchising's book Fundamentals of Franchising-Canada. As well, he was co-editor and co-author of the Canadian Franchise Association's first and only official book publication, How to Franchise Your Business. He is a co-author of the chapter on Canada for the ABA Forum's book International Franchise Sales Laws. In 2004, 2005, and each year from 2009 to 2017, Larry was named by Franchise Times to its "Legal Eagles" list of the top franchise lawyers in the United States and Canada. He and Cassels Brock are each listed in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory as being among the leaders in Canada in franchise law. In 2014, 2015, and 2016, Larry received U.K.-based Who's Who Legal's one and only worldwide Lawyer of the Year award for Franchise law, and in 2014 the Lexpert(R) Zenith Award. Larry was called to the Bar of the Province of Ontario in 1989.