Krystyne Helena Rusek

Krystyne’s litigation practice focuses on the area of estates; trust and capacity disputes, including will challenges and will validation, dependant support claims, guardianship applications, and power of attorney disputes. She appears regularly in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Court of Appeal.

Krystyne is one of our hybrid lawyers (and there are not many out there nowadays), a litigator who has had solicitor experience practicing in the trenches to get deals done. She can litigate these issues better because she has been involved in the thick of them.

Krystyne is an advocate, a teacher, a writer, a representative of the Ontario Bar Association, and a public speaker. Krystyne is highly respected by her peers and was recognized by Best Lawyers 2025 Edition, in Trusts and Estates Law. Krystyne has been the Section Lead/Liaison for the Ontario Bar Association’s Civil Rules Review Taskforce since December 2024 and has been instrumental in clarifying the application of the proposed reform to estates, trusts, and capacity litigation.

Krystyne is also another of our lawyers who has served our country. She is a former member of the Canadian Reserves, 25 Medical Company (1993-2000). She can strip a rifle even better than she can strip away the pretenses of a prevaricating witness.

She likes to swim with sharks. Go figure. Please! No snide comments about lawyers in general (don’t even think it).