Michael Solursh

Michael Solursh, B.A. (Western), LL.B. (Windsor), LLM (Georgetown), was called to the Ontario Bar in 2002.  Michael is General Counsel and the Practice Lead of the Trade Law Practice Group for the Ontario Government.  Michael advises the government on trade negotiations, trade litigation, and the consistency of government measures and programs with Canada and Ontario’s obligations under international and domestic trade agreements.  Before joining the Ontario government, Michael worked at the Canadian Trade Law Bureau at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, the World Trade Organization in its Legal Affairs Division, the International Law Department of the Organization for American States, the Trade and Economic Unit at the Canadian Embassy in Washington, DC, and was an associate with McLeod Dixon LLP (now Norton Rose) in Toronto.

Michael also holds a certificate in WTO Law from Georgetown University Law Center and completed a Fellowship with the Institute of International Economic Law in Washington. Contact: michael.solursh@ontario.ca