Biography of Edward Prutschi

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Toronto, ON M2N 7E9
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Education
B.A. (Political Science, International Relations), York University
LL.B. Osgoode Hall Law School

Memberships
Criminal Lawyers Association
Ontario Bar Association- Criminal Justice Section

Biography
Edward Prutschi has a passion for his work. “Criminal is the only area that I find is a real area of law. That’s where the real negotiating and the real in-court activity is. That’s where the action is and that’s where the fun has always been for me, where the attraction has always been. We are in court literally every day. I mean, virtually no day goes by, on a day that the courts are open, that I’m not in court,” he explains.

At Osgoode, Mr. Prutschi participated in the Intensive Program in Criminal Law, clerking for Mr. Justice Victor Paisley of the Superior Court of Justice. After articling for the law firm of Goodman Philips & Vineberg (now Goodmans, LLP), Mr. Prutschi started his own practice focused on criminal and quasi-criminal litigation, eventually teaming up with Leo Adler and Boris Bytensky to form the firm of Adler Bytensky Prutschi Shikhman.

Mr. Prutschi appears routinely before all levels of court in Ontario including the Superior Court of Justice and the Ontario Court of Appeal. He is a former faculty member for the Criminal Law course at the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Bar Admission Course where he has instructed law school graduates in criminal procedure prior to their admission to the profession.

Mr. Prutschi is also a certified Intoxilyzer Breath Alcohol Technician - a designation that can come in very handy when defending persons charged with impaired driving related offences. He is a frequent guest on the York University radio program “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt” and has been quoted in major Toronto and area newspapers for his views on high-profile cases he has worked on and the criminal law in general.

“The joy is taking those cases that are very difficult and being able to do something for the client,” Prutschi gets great satisfaction from helping his clients. “The best feeling, is when a person comes to you and you know that the charges they are facing are not right. You know they are not fair, you know that you have an innocent client on your hands and you take the case to trial and at the end of the day you hear a jury or a judge tell you ‘not guilty’. That is by far the most satisfying feeling a criminal lawyer will ever have. And that’s what we live for - hearing that result.”

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