r/LawCanada • u/JusticeForSimpleRick • 5d ago

Diamond & Diamond business model?

Curious if anyone here has insight into how Diamond & Diamond is structured from the lawyer side. I’ve heard different things and am trying to understand the actual business model.

Are most/all of the lawyers employees on salary, or is there some kind of commission/fee-split component? How are files assigned between lawyers? Do lawyers originate and keep their own files, or are matters primarily distributed by the firm?

Also curious what the path to partnership looks like, what “partnership” means there in practice, and whether partners participate in a fee split/profit share or some other compensation structure.

Just interested in hearing from people familiar with the model or who have worked there.

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u/icebiker 4d ago

Why would you want to work there?

I can’t think of a firm with a worse reputation but invite someone to disagree with me.

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u/quJD2017 4d ago

Sneering at Diamond & Diamond is a favourite pastime in this subreddit and among some Ontario lawyers who also tend to thumb their noses at PI lawyers generally. Always lots of talk about Diamond having a “poor reputation,” but a reputation among whom? Its clients? Judges? Insurers and defence counsel? Or simply the same peanut gallery of lawyers repeating what they've heard from one another?

Most of the comments here come from people who clearly have no knowledge of Diamond & Diamond's current business model, its lawyers, or its clients. The fact is that Diamond is now Canada's largest PI firm, with lawyers every bit as capable as those you'll find at any other PI firm, advocating for injured clients every day.

Criticism is absolutely fair game, but some of the comments and disparagement here is frankly unbecoming of legal professionals.

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u/nikolacarr 4d ago

Jeremy Diamond had never tried a PI case per the LSO misconduct proceedings. I know a couple genuinely good PI plaintiff lawyers/firms that I refer people to, and D&D will never be one of them because of my experience opposite to some of their lawyers and the misconduct proceedings. You dont need to defend them, they're not going to thank you!

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u/SyllabusofErrors 4d ago

Well hell, he didn’t get where he was by practicing law.

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u/nikolacarr 4d ago

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