David MacDonald, a senior partner, was awarded the Martindale-Hubbell® AV Preeminent (highest levels of skill and integrity) designation for personal injury trauma representation in Ontario by other leading insurance and personal injury lawyers. David has the honour of representing the most seriously injured trauma victims and their families. He takes pride in working with his clients and engaging excellent rehabilitation professionals, devoting his full efforts to help his clients recover, work towards restoring meaningful and productive lives and receive maximum compensation for their losses.
David MacDonald is a trial lawyer who conducted Toronto’s first personal injury paperless iPad trial. David has been going to trial and settling catastrophic plaintiff personal injury cases and helping car, pedestrian, ATV, motorcycle and boating accident victims who have suffered catastrophic injuries for more than twenty-five years. He has been source lawyer and co-counsel on matters which have settled for over $11,000,000 and lead counsel on matters which have settled for over $8,000,000. Most of his clients have suffered severe brain injuries, spinal cord injuries or amputations arising from trauma. David represents clients from all across Ontario, including Thunder Bay, Ottawa, Windsor, Kingston, Sault Ste Marie, Barrie, London, Hamilton, Niagara Falls, Oshawa, Huntsville, Toronto and his hometown of Mississauga, where he, his wife Margaret and their four boys live. David’s goal is to help his clients develop meaningful lives after tragedy strikes by helping them in the recovery process with excellent, inspiring rehabilitation professionals and to protect them for all their future financial needs.
David is Certified as a Specialist in Civil Litigation by the Law Society of Ontario, recognized in The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory as consistently recommended for Personal Injury Litigation by Ontario’s personal injury lawyers, and acknowledged in The Best Lawyers™ in Canada and by Martindale-Hubbell® as an expert in Personal Injury Litigation. For over twenty years David has advocated to the government on behalf of pedestrian, motorcycle and car accident victims for fair laws. He has led as a board member of Peel Halton, Toronto and Hamilton Brain Injury Associations. In 2003, the Ontario government selected David from all personal injury lawyers in the province and appointed him to the Superintendent’s Executive Committee to implement Ontario’s Auto Reforms.
David publishes and lectures to lawyers, adjusters and health care professionals on Catastrophic Injury Determination across the province. He has Guest Lectured on Litigation Experts at The University of Western Ontario and University of Ottawa Faculties of Law.
David has conducted and won many personal injury trials and arbitrations arising from pedestrian, motorcycle and car accidents. He has won trials against municipalities for improper signage and improper road maintenance in snow and ice cases including one for his client, Donald Greer.
David provides free initial in-person consultations at hospital or home and is available by cell at 647-290-7291.
Year of Call
1991
Education
Bachelor of Arts (Honours), University of Western Ontario (1986)
Bachelor of Laws, University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law (1989)
The Insurance Executive Section of The Ontario Trial Lawyers Association
The Metropolitan Toronto Lawyers Association
Founding and Executive member of the Toronto Brain Injury Awareness Month Organizing Committee
Served on the Board of Directors of the Hamilton Regional Brain Injury Program and the Peel Halton Brain Injury Association
Served as Executive of the Insurance Section of the Canadian Bar Association-Ontario
Served as Executive of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association
Member of FAIR (Fair Association of Victims for Accident Insurance Reform)
Industry recognition
Testimonials
Donald
Thomson Rogers have wonderful lawyers. They care. They want to see you improve and get the help that you need, and they’re very thorough. David MacDonald I would recommend 100%. He cared about my well-being, he wanted me to get the best job I could possibly get. You are part of their family, they want to take care of you.
Matt
Before his motorcycle accident, Matt would go hunting, fishing, and ATVing with his friends. Afterwards, Matt had to undergo a lower leg amputation and he wondered what kind of life he could have. Bedridden and in chronic pain, Matt had a hard time imagining that he’d enjoy things like ATVing again. Thomson Rogers found Matt an operation in Australia that helped bring his activity level back to normal. Matt’s family helped him focus on his health because Thomson Rogers took care of winning his case.
Thomson Rogers
Before his motorcycle accident, Matt would go hunting, fishing, and ATVing with his friends. But in the aftermath of his accident, Matt had to undergo a lower leg amputation which left him wondering if he would ever ride again. Bedridden and in chronic pain, it seemed impossible. But by working with David MacDonald, a partner at the law firm of Thomson Rogers, Matt was able to focus on his health because David took care of his claim. And we’re happy to report that Matt is back on his ATV.
If you or a loved one has been involved in a serious accident, please contact David MacDonald at 416-868-3155 for a free consultation.
Roger C.
Many years back, like 9 to be exact, I experienced an accident that almost took my life, but I survived. I spent months in a hospital bed and when I got out, I found it very difficult to get support and help in my recovery. I even tried what I thought was a good lawyer to help me. A bad choice. Then one day a driver taking me to an appointment, suggested I call David MacDonald at Thomson Rogers. That call changed my life for ever. Thomson Rogers took my case on and spent almost 2 years supporting my needs, fighting for my physical and mental support needs, as well as fighting for my future. Without David and the team, I would have been still relying on the ambulance chaser, who did nothing for me. Thank you very much to David MacDonald and the whole family at Thomson Rogers Lawyers.
We would like to thank you sincerely for all your efforts in helping my husband and family in the most time of need. From the first moment we met you, we felt confident and trusted you.
We thank you for fighting for our rights and giving us the strength to live day by day. Your compassion meant the world to us because knowing you were representing us, gave us a piece of mind so that I could focus on my husband’s recovery. You provided my husband with the best rehabilitation team who gave him hope in having a future.
We also gratefully thank your senior law clerk, Barbara O’Gorman for truly being an amazing person. She gave me the strength to pull through. I can genuinely say that Barbara has always treated me as a friend rather than just a client. It was a relief to know that her assistance was available to me and my family whenever in need.
We would truly recommend you to anyone who has been involved in a car accident and requires excellent representation.
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