Cynthia Davis

First Year of Call
2007

Areas of Practice
Civil Litigation, Construction Law, Corporate and Commercial Law, Professional Malpractice, Real Property

Description
Cynthia is an experienced courtroom advocate that strives to achieve effective and practical solutions to protect her clients’ legal rights. Her clients include those within the construction industry including owners, contractors, sub-trades and material suppliers, commercial landlords and tenants, and private and public lenders. In all cases, Cynthia is effective at examining her clients’ interests, both legal and practical, and developing a strategy that best achieves results for her clients in the most cost-efficient and timely manner.

Cynthia thrives in the courtroom. She works diligently to ensure that her client’s dispute is properly articulated and vigorously advanced. In addition to her courtroom talent, Cynthia appreciates that when protecting her client’s best interest, alternative dispute resolution is to be considered in the appropriate case. In this regard, she has lectured with respect to mediation strategies.

Cynthia also plays an important role mentoring future members of the legal community, including Giffen lawyers and students as well as students in the Municipal Law Clerk program and the Human Resources program at Conestoga College where she taught legal research and writing as well as employment law. Cynthia is also the founder and first Chair of the Waterloo Region Law Association practice group: Female Engagement and Mentorship for Practitioners of Waterloo Region (FEMPOWR).

Cynthia has a long-standing belief in giving back to her community for which she was awarded the 2016 Kitchener-Waterloo Oktoberfest Woman of the Year Award in the professional category. Cynthia has contributed her time, skills and leadership serving in various capacities on a number of Boards, including as Chair of the Board of Trustees of KidsAbility School Authority, the Canadian Cancer Society and Focus for Ethnic Women. Cynthia has also been involved with the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, including the Women’s Caucus and as Vice-Chair of the Medical Malpractice Section. Most recently, Cynthia was elected to the executive of the Ontario Bar Association’s Women Lawyers Forum and she continues as Vice-President of the Waterloo Region Law Association Board of Trustees.