Richard Halpern

Richard Halpern is a senior lawyer acting exclusively for injured people in medical negligence cases, with a special focus on infants injured at or around the time of birth. He is known across Canada for his expertise in birth injury cases and he has a detailed understanding of the highly technical medical issues, particularly relating to birth injury cases, which allows him to provide meaningful advice and direction to families considering a medical negligence lawsuit following a review of the medical record.

Richard is known for tackling some of the most complex and challenging medical malpractice cases. He has lectured and written extensively on matters concerned with obstetrics, the cause of newborn injury, medical malpractice cases more generally, and legal and trial strategies.

In 2015, Richard was the recipient of the Award for Distinguished Service to the legal profession, conferred by his peers at the Ontario Bar Association. He has been recognized by and listed in The Best Lawyers™ in Canada. He has been recognized in The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory.

Richard has acted in hundreds of medical malpractice cases. He has achieved significant settlements for his clients, many exceeding $10,000,000, though past results are not necessarily indicative of future outcomes.

He is currently a member of the Holland Group, which promotes reforms in medical malpractice cases aimed at increasing access to justice and timely and equitable resolutions of medical malpractice claims. Richard is also a member of a bench a bar committee established by the Ontario Court of Justice. The members of this committee include judges and senior lawyers and meet to consider reforms to improve the administration of justice.

Richard is a past president of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association and a past member of the Judicial Advisory Committee on Judicial Appointments, which evaluates candidates for appointment to the Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Federal Court and the Federal Court of Appeal. He is a member of the Advocates’ Society, the Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Association, the Ontario Bar Association and the American Association of Justice.

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