Six Under Six

Ashley is an associate with Soloway Wright LLP. She articled with the firm in 2015 and returned as an associate upon her call to the Ontario Bar in 2016. Ashley practices primarily in the area of insurance defence, personal injury and medical malpractice. She is a graduate of Simon Fraser University and University of Ottawa Law School. While at law school, Ashley was actively involved with the Legal Aid Clinic's Landlord and Tenant Division. She also represented the University of Ottawa at the National Baseball Arbitration Competition in New Orleans, LA. Ashley recently taught Evidence Law at Algonquin College in the paralegal program and previously taught Civil Procedures I in the law clerk program. Ashley is presently the Chair of the Ontario Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division – East.

After graduating from law school in 1994, Robert was called to the bar of Ontario in 1996. In October 1996, Robert joined the law firm of Merovitz Potechin LLP and was made a partner in September 2005. Robert’s primary areas of practice are bankruptcy and insolvency and collection where he has represented numerous financial institutions, creditors, trustees in bankruptcy and debtors. Robert has written and co-written several articles on insolvency law for use in legal seminars and has spoken at various insolvency seminars. Robert is also very actively involved in the community. At the age of 32, Robert became the youngest president of the Canadian Italian Business and Professional Association of Ottawa (CIBPA). As president of CIBPA, Robert presided over the creation of the CIBPA Ottawa Scholarship Program. In addition to being a member of CIBPA, Robert was an executive member of the Ontario Bar Association Young Lawyers’ Division (the YLD) and was on the executive of the OBA’s Insolvency section. In his role as an executive on the YLD, Robert was responsible for spearheading the development of the YLD’s racial tolerance mock trial program for grade 6 students in Ottawa. From 2004 to 2008, Robert was on the Board of Directors for Villa Marconi Long Term Care Centre. He last served as its Vice President. Robert is currently on the Board of Directors of the Children’s Aid Foundation of Ottawa and he is also actively involved in his children’s lives, coaching them in both hockey and soccer for the past several years.

A fluently bilingual litigator, Shaun was called to the Bar of Ontario in 2014. Since then, he has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court, the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, Small Claims Court and the Landlord & Tenant Board. Shaun graduated from the University of Ottawa with a common and civil law degree. While studying, Shaun served as the President of the law students society, was on the law review and was elected a student representative on the University Senate. Shaun has an insatiable sweet tooth, especially for ice cream. When not at the office, Shaun can be found playing basketball, running along the canal or eating cookies at Boko Bakery.