Background
Gillese's documented background lies in western Canada and Ontario. He completed his first university degree in Edmonton, Alberta, and later pursued legal studies in Toronto, Ontario, where his professional career developed.
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Kevin Gillese is a Canadian lawyer based in Toronto, Ontario. He was admitted to the Ontario bar in 1987 and worked as a partner at the Toronto firm Weir & Foulds, now known as WeirFoulds LLP. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Alberta and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Toronto.
Education
Gillese completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. The university was founded in 1908 as a public institution, with Henry Marshall Tory as its first president. Classes began that September with 45 students and five faculty, and Tory envisioned a secular university open to everyone in the province. The Faculty of Law was added in 1912, and the university grew rapidly in the years that followed.
He also earned a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Toronto. Its Faculty of Law was established as a teaching faculty in 1887 and officially opened in 1889, and it took its modern form under Cecil Wright in 1949. The faculty is one of the oldest professional faculties at the university.
Career
Gillese's documented professional career is based in Toronto, where he became a partner at Weir & Foulds, a firm now known as WeirFoulds LLP. The firm traces its origins to 1860 and describes itself as one of Canada's oldest law firms. Its practice centres on litigation, corporate, property and government law, and its roots lie in Toronto's rise as Ontario's industrial centre in the late nineteenth century.
His documented legal career begins in 1987, the year he was admitted to the bar in Ontario. Admission to the bar marked his entry into the practice of law in the province, and his subsequent professional role at the firm was that of partner.
