Chris Rudnicki
Chris Rudnicki is lead counsel at Rudnicki & Company, a criminal defence firm in Toronto, Ontario. He specializes in criminal law and has experience in complex, lengthy, serious, and precedent-setting cases at every level of court. He began his practice in 2015 as a trial lawyer, shifting his focus to criminal appeals in 2019. Though most of Chris’s work consists of indictable appeals to the Court of Appeal for Ontario, he maintains a small trial, regulatory defence, and animal law practice.
Chris sees his law practice as a means of achieving just results for individual clients while contributing to the progressive development of the legal system as a whole. He regularly gives lectures and publishes articles identifying doctrinal currents that might be navigated towards a more humane, compassionate, and equitable criminal law.
“The key challenge for progressive advocates is learning to translate lived experience and critical theory into the language of law. I am thrilled to help train the next generation of legal change-makers to meet this challenge at the Lincoln Alexander School of Law.”