Brydie Bethell studied law at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, and was called to the Bar in 2005.  She has broad experience in both civil and criminal litigation, and has appeared at all levels of court including the Federal Court of Canada, the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and the Supreme Court of Canada.  She has taught Evidence, Administrative Law, and Legal Ethics in the JD program at Osgoode, as well as Administrative Law in the LLM program within OsgoodePD.

Appointed as one of Ontario’s first Certified Specialists in Estates and Trusts Law; Senior Associate Counsel: Hull & Hull LLP and senior mediator; Past Chair of the Ontario Bar Association – Trust and Estates Section; full member of the Society of Trusts and Estate Practitioners (STEP); inaugural winner of the OBA’s Hoffstein Prize recognizing contributions and achievements in the area of wills, trusts and estates; one of Lexpert’s top recommended estate lawyers in Canada; Rated as a Best Lawyer in Canada; frequent presenter, instructor and Chair at CLE programs on estate matters; contributing author to “Estate Litigation” and his articles are referred to in many of Canada’s leading estates texts; co-author: The Family War – Winning the Inheritance Battle, featured on CanadaAM, BNN and in The National Post, The Toronto Star, Associated Press, LA Times and dozens of Canadian and US newspapers.