Danielle Muise

Partner Admitted to the Ontario Bar: 2016
  • Toronto

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  • Bio
  • Professional Involvement
  • Representative Matters
  • Selected Publications
  • Insights
  • Education

Danielle strives to bridge the gap between the law and the practical realities of her clients’ businesses. Drawn to a career in civil litigation, by the opportunity to be a life-long learner, Danielle keeps current on applicable laws and regulations to help her thoroughly understand and address her clients’ diverse challenges and issues.

Danielle Muise is a member of the firm's Litigation Group. Danielle’s practice focuses on civil litigation, with an emphasis on corporate and commercial matters. She has acted in commercial, competition, construction, municipal, and real property matters.

She regularly attends at the Superior Court of Justice and Small Claims Court, and has appeared before the Court of Appeal.

Danielle summered and articled at Aird & Berlis before returning as an associate in 2016.

Professional Involvement

Community Involvement 

  • Board Member and Chair of the Policy Committee, Shelter Movers

Representative Matters

Represented a municipality in a Construction Act adjudication, successfully defending its right to impose liquidated damages. Click here for full details.

Represented a municipality in having consolidated construction adjudication claims, for additional costs arising from an alleged delay in awarding the contract and soil sampling and testing, dismissed. Click here for full details.

Represented a municipality in having a $2.1-million claim, for increased material and labour costs arising in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, dismissed. Click here for full details.

Represented a municipality in having two complex claims, which arose in the context of a municipal infrastructure project and which were brought before an Adjudicator in accordance with the Construction Act, R.S.O., 1990, c. C.30, dismissed. Click here for full details.

Selected Publications

Co-Author, "This Could Be ‘The One’: Considerations for When a Property Developer Faces Insolvency," Aird & Berlis LLP, November 14, 2023.

"Sorry. Not Sorry," The Straight Line, Issue #17, Pro-Demnity Insurance Company, February 1, 2022.

 

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Education

  • JD, University of Toronto, 2015
  • BA (Hons.), University of Toronto, 2008

Expertise

Construction
Litigation & Dispute Resolution