Jim Vigmond, recipient of the Ontario Bar Association Award for Excellence in Insurance Law 2022 (Regional), has been practicing personal injury litigation on behalf of plaintiffs for over 30 years. He is former president of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association and the Simcoe County Law Association. Jim continues to be a leading figure of Ontario’s personal injury trial bar. At Oatley, Vigmond, Jim leads a team of lawyers and support staff with broad expertise in spinal cord, brain injury and serious orthopedic cases.
Frequently called upon to help further the education of other trial lawyers, Jim has travelled across Canada, speaking on matters of trial advocacy and trial practice. Jim created the course ‘Personal Injury Advocacy’ which he teaches at Queen’s University Law School along with Insurance Law. His students have twice awarded him the Queen’s Law School Teaching Excellence Award. Jim is a Certified Litigation Specialist by the Law Society of Upper Canada, and an inducted Fellow of Litigation Counsel of America and the American College of Trial Lawyers. In November 2016, Jim was the recipient of a lifetime achievement award from the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association.
In the courtroom, Jim is a force. He gets to the point, finds the weaknesses in the defence’s case and takes aim, rarely missing.
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