A high-profile Canadian employment lawyer is facing discipline over his hardball tactics against some of his firm's dissatisfied clients, after two of them posted critical reviews online and a third refused to pay her bill.'I am both embarrassed and disappointed in the way I have conducted myself,' lawyer Lior Samfiru wrote in an apology letter to an ex-client who complained about him to Ontario's law society.
The firm bills itself as "the most positively reviewed in the country," with more than 1,500 five-star reviews on Google. But nearly 200 pages of documents filed as part of Wednesday's disciplinary hearing suggest that at least part of the reason for his firm's 4.9-star rating is that its co-managing partner vigilantly policed some of the negative reviews that cropped up.
Samfiru later told a Law Society investigator that Google is one of the firm's "biggest sources of referrals" and he felt IK's review was defamatory in part because it suggested his firm was falsely advertising about clients not having to pay until the firm won their case. "If we lose at trial, we will appeal. If that appeal is unsuccessful, we will seek further leave to appeal," Samfiru wrote.Truck driver robbed of day in court, denied compensation after lawyer lies, gets suspended and disappearsJD wrote in a victim impact statement that she felt bullied, adding that the amount Samfiru's firm sued her for "was outrageous, and I was scared… it felt like an abuse of power.
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