Alec K. Clute is a Canadian lawyer based in Toronto, Ontario, and a partner of the law firm WeirFoulds LLP. He earned Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degrees from the University of Toronto and was admitted to the Ontario bar in 1985.
Education
Clute studied at the University of Toronto, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1980 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1983. The university traces its origins to 1827, when a royal charter established King's College under the Church of England in the colony of Upper Canada. That institution was reorganized as the nondenominational University of Toronto in 1850, and it is today a public research university with campuses in Toronto and the surrounding region.
His legal training therefore took place within a large Toronto university, and his law degree preceded his admission to practice. Legal practice in Ontario is governed by the Law Society, founded in 1797 as the Law Society of Upper Canada and renamed the Law Society of Ontario in 2018, which licenses and regulates the province's lawyers.
Career
Clute's documented professional career is with WeirFoulds LLP, a Toronto law firm whose origins date to 1860, when Theodore H. Spencer began practice and opened the firm's first office in the city. The firm was initially known as Spencer and MacDonald from 1870, and it presents itself as one of Canada's oldest law firms, with practice areas that include litigation, corporate, property and government law.
His professional record with the firm begins in 1985, the year he was admitted to the Ontario bar. He is identified as a partner in the firm's corporate and commercial practice, which advises established public companies, financial institutions, and start-ups.
