Simon Chester Counsel Head – Client and Matter Acceptance Team

Simon Chester

Simon Chester is Counsel, Conflicts and Regulatory Matters within the firm’s General Counsel team. He leads the Camat team which handles conflict of interest issues which have a global dimension, through a shared Canadian / European database. He also leads a group which analyses Outside Counsel Guidelines, using Kira Artificial Intelligence software. 

Simon’s career has spanned law teaching, a decade in the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General, and eclectic experience as a partner in other Bay Street firms, dealing with research, knowledge management, intellectual property and legal opinions.

He held senior leadership positions in the American Bar Association, being the first non-American to chair ABA TechShow, and served as a Consultant on conflicts of interest to both the International Bar Association and the Canadian Bar Association. He was the first non-American to be President of the College of Law Practice Management. He co-founded Slaw, the most widely-read legal blog in Canada.