Rikin Rasik Morzaria

First Year of Call
2003

Areas of Practice
Personal Injury Law

Description
Rikin Morzaria received his Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) with Distinction from the Schulich School of Business at York University. He completed his law degree at the University of Toronto, where he also received the top prize in Trial Advocacy and the top prize in Public International Law. Rikin devotes his practice to representing individuals who have suffered serious or catastrophic personal injuries and families who have lost a loved one in wrongful death cases.

Rikin has written and published more than twenty journal articles and chapters in leading textbooks in the field of civil litigation and personal injury law. He is regularly invited to give lectures to other lawyers and to health professionals about litigation and personal injury law.

Rikin was co-counsel at trial in McNeil v. Bryan, and achieved an $18.4 million judgment, the largest personal injury damages award in Canadian history. He has also represented clients in several precedent-setting cases, including a decision that prevented an insurer from obtaining defence medical examinations that would have delayed a trial of a multi-million dollar action.

Rikin is a member of The Law Society of Upper Canada, Canadian Bar Association, Ontario Bar Association, and is currently a Director and the Secretary of the Board of Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights (CLAIHR) and he was recently nominated as a 2013-2014 Board of Director for the Ontario Trial Lawyers’ Association.

When not working Rikin enjoys cycling and spending time with his wife and son.

To learn more about Rikin’s practice please visit, www.mcleishorlando.com/Lawyers/Rikin-Morzaria.shtml