Lawson Legal Research provides specialized legal research, analysis and writing to Ontario lawyers, thereby helping them present their clients’ cases in the most effective way possible.

Peter G. Lawson is an independent research lawyer. For more than 20 years he has provided specialized legal research, analysis and writing to Ontario lawyers.

Peter is a graduate of McMaster University as well as Oxford University, where he was a Commonwealth Scholar. Peter received his legal training at the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law, from which he graduated with honours. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1994. Since then he has practiced solely as a research lawyer. DOWNLOAD Peter's resume here.

Peter has carried out research into most areas of the law, and has prepared material for use before courts of all levels, including the O.C.J., the S.C.J., the Div. Ct., the O.C.A. and the S.C.C. He has also prepared material for use before administrative tribunals and commissions of inquiry, including the 2003 SARS Inquiry in Toronto.

At the same time, Peter has continued to write and publish on a variety of legal issues. In 2007 one of his articles won the OBA’s Widdifield Award as the best article published in the Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal during the previous year. Peter is also a regular contributor to the HLA Journal with his column, “An Eye on the Courts.”