Biography

Malcolm Mercer is the full time Chair of the Law Society Tribunal. He speaks and writes regularly on legal ethics. He is an adjunct professor of Osgoode Hall Law School teaching legal ethics and a member of the Canadian Association for Legal Ethics. Malcolm was previously an elected bencher and Treasurer of the Law Society of Ontario, Chair of the Ethics and Professional Responsibility Committee of the Canadian Bar Association, the Ethics and Regulatory Team Lead for the CBA Futures Project, General Counsel to and litigation partner of McCarthy Tétrault LLP and member of the Immigration Appeal Division of the Immigration and Refugee Board. While Chair of the Tribunal, Malcolm is not involved with the Law Society as an honorary bencher.