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Lawyers
Chantal Desloges - Founder and Law Firm Principal
Barrister and Solicitor, Certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as: A Specialist in Citizenship and Immigration Law and a Specialist in Refugee Law
Chantal’s practice encompasses all areas of Canadian citizenship, immigration and refugee law, such as business class applications, skilled workers, family sponsorships, work and study permits, refugee cases, citizenship applications, plus Appeals and Judicial Reviews of refused cases. Chantal places a great deal of importance on client relationships, and ensuring that the clients are treated as valued partners in the immigration process.
Chantal graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1997 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1999. She articled with Green & Spiegel in 1997/98 and was admitted as an Associate Lawyer in 1999. She was invited to partnership at Green & Spiegel in 2005. After an enriching experience of more than 12 years with Green & Spiegel, she established her own firm, Chantal Desloges Professional Corporation, in August, 2010. Chantal was co-Professor of Immigration Law at Osgoode Hall Law School in 2000/2001, and she continues to be an occasional guest lecturer in the school’s Immigration Intensive Program. She served as Curriculum Co-ordinator and Lecturer for the Seneca College Immigration Practitioner Certificate Program from 1999 - 2010.
In 2002, she founded an immigration and refugee law free advice clinic at Warden Woods Community Centre in Scarborough, Ontario. The clinic operated until 2006 and was designed to perform a community service by assisting low-income people in Scarborough to get free summary advice from experienced lawyers, and to get suitable referrals to Legal Aid or to the private Bar. In 2005, she assisted in the creation of a non-profit charity dedicated to the establishment of a new reception house for refugees and new immigrants in Toronto and served on the first Board of the new organization.
Chantal has significant international experience and a broad cultural understanding, regularly traveling to Europe, the Middle East, the Americas, and South Asia to deliver seminars and hold client meetings with regard to immigration to Canada.
Chantal is currently a member of the French language consultative committee for the Toronto Police. She regularly participates in community education programs by giving speeches, lectures and training seminars at the Canadian Bar Association, Ontario Bar Association, Law Society of Upper Canada, and community centres on the subject of immigration and refugee law. She has been invited by national and local television stations such as CBC, CTV News, W5, Canada AM, OMNI news, and 100 Huntley Street for her viewpoint on various immigration issues and cases. She has also been interviewed and quoted in national and local newspapers such as the Toronto Star, Toronto Sun, Globe and Mail, National Post and the Ottawa Citizen.
Chantal is fluent in English and French.
Kenneth Ng, B.A. (Hons.), LL.B. - Managing Lawyer
Barrister and Solicitor
Ken is an experienced lawyer and assists clients in all aspects of Canadian citizenship, immigration and refugee law including: investor and entrepreneur class applications; provincial nominee applications; family class and Canadian experience class applications; federal skilled worker and temporary worker applications (including intra-company transferees); student, and visitor visas; humanitarian and compassionate grounds applications and admissibility and enforcement matters, including detention reviews, appeals and judicial reviews.
In addition to serving his clients, Ken also plays an instrumental role with firm management decisions and co-ordinating our firm’s marketing and business development initiatives. He is the firm's privacy officer and also responsible for managing the firm's knowledge management and precedents system.
He completed his undergraduate studies at Queen’s University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) and then attended law school at the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law where he received his Bachelor of Laws in 2000. Ken is a member of the Immigration Law Section of the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations.
Ken articled and practiced corporate and commercial law at a leading Canadian business law firm and operated an executive legal recruitment firm before joining our firm. He brings a truly international perspective to his work, which is shaped by his extensive travels abroad, including studying international law in Hong Kong, China and Tokyo, Japan. He has also worked in the legal departments of First Pacific Company Limited, a publicly listed Hong Kong based, multi-national conglomerate and the Tokyo office of a leading U.S. Investment bank.
In his spare time, Ken is avid photographer and traveller. He twice completed the ‘Camino de Santiago’, a 850km+hiking route across Northern Spain; trekked through the northern Sahara, climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, the Grossglockner in Austria and Mt. Aso (Naka-daka), an active volcano in Japan.
Ken is fluent in English and speaks Chinese (Cantonese).
Phillip J.L. Trotter
Barrister and Solicitor
Phillip J.L. Trotter graduated from McGill in 2007 and was called to the Ontario Bar in June 2009. He has a general law practice that significantly focuses on immigration and refugee law.
Phil has represented clients in various courts and administrative tribunals, including the Immigration and Refugee Board, the Ontario Court of Justice, Superior Court of Justice, Court of Appeal, and the Federal Court. Phil prefers to settle legal matters with opposing counsel through reasonable negotiations and alternative dispute resolution, and also effectively represents clients in an adversarial legal process when required. Phil carefully strives to understand clients and their legal issues thoroughly, and to effectively advance the clients’ best interests in harmony with the integrity of the legal system and society generally.
Phil offer legal consultation and other legal services to Chantal Desloges Professional Corporation. His interest in immigration and refugee law is based on a sincere appreciation of the value of Canada's multicultural identity as an example to the world. Phil has his own general law practice and represents clients in a variety other legal matters.
Phil is fluent in English and French.
Ori Bergman
Barrister and Solicitor
Ori holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Psychology with Honours from York University and is a 2010 graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, ON. In addition to law school, Ori spent a number of years studying Jewish Law in Israel.
Ori is responsible for doing research, writing legal submissions for various types of immigration applications, and providing assistance with the litigation work.
Before joining the firm, Ori spent time at the HIV and AIDS Legal Clinic of Ontario where he did research relating to immigration to Canada, as well as other legal issues affecting low-income persons living with HIV and AIDS. Ori has also gained invaluable experience conducting mediations at small claims court.
In addition to his academic achievements, Ori was awarded the Hillel of Greater Toronto York University Campus Award for his contributions to the student body as the President of the Jewish Law Student Association.
Ori brings to our clientele a hard-working nature mixed with a compassion and dedication to provide the highest level of service. While being very professional, Ori is also most personable, constantly striving to make clients feel comfortable and to empower them in their encounter with Canadian Immigration law.
Ori is bilingual (English and Hebrew); while being very active in the community, he also leads a very active lifestyle where he spends much of his free time teaching tennis to children and adults.
Ian Sonshine
Articling Student
Ian was admitted to the Colorado Bar in 2010, completed his Certificate of Qualification from the NCA in March 2011 and plans to be called to the Ontario Bar in September 2012. He graduated from the University of Wyoming College of Law in 2008. Prior to that he majored in History and English Literature and received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia.
As our articling student, Ian will assist clients on a wide range of immigration, citizenship and refugee law matters. Prior to joining our firm, Ian worked as a Student Attorney with the University of Wyoming College of Law's Defender Aid Clinic and as a mediator with St. Stephen's Conflict Resolution Services in Toronto.
Professional and Community Activities
Member of the Colorado Bar Association
Member of the American Bar Association
Member of the Canadian Bar Association
Member of he Alternative Dispute Resolution Institute of OntarioConsultants and Administrators
Velitchka Mihailova
Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC) Member of the ICCRC (Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council) Membership number R415647
Velitchka is a Member in good standing of the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council (ICCRC) and a Fellow of the Canadian Migration Institute (CMI).
She holds a Master of Arts Degree from the University of Moscow, Russia as well as an Immigration Practitioner Certificate with High Honours from Seneca College in Toronto.
Velitchka has 14 years of experience in the immigration field and has contributed to the successful immigration to Canada of thousands of people from all over the world. Velitchka’s expertise lays in assessing the chances of potential immigrants’ under the available immigration programs, consulting them about options, as well as processing immigration and citizenship applications.
Velitchka regularly travels to Eastern Europe, former Soviet Union, and Latin America with consultations and seminars to explain to potential clients the current immigration programs and select qualified candidates. She is able to lend a valuable Eastern European perspective to the practice.
Velitchka is fluent in English, Russian, Bulgarian, and Macedonian.
Rupal Rokhit
Senior Immigration Case Manager
Rupal holds a Bachelor of Arts, Honours degree in Economics from the University of Delhi, India.
She has over 12 years of experience in Canadian immigration and is responsible for effectively processing all types of temporary and permanent residence applications, in addition to Refugee claims, Humanitarian and Compassionate applications, Federal Court matters, as well as various appeals filed with the Immigration and Refugee Board.
Before coming to Canada, Rupal was a Case Analyst with the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi, India where she gained extensive experience in immigration and in 2003 won an Award of Excellence for outstanding performance.
Rupal is fluent in English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu. She is able to lend a valuable South Asian perspective in the processing of many cases handled by the firm.
Mehreen Raza
Client Development Consultant
Mehreen has assisted hundreds of families to immigrate to and settle in Canada. Although she has worked with clients from all over the world, her personal and professional network is particularly rich in Pakistan, South East Asia and the Middle East.
Mehreen holds a LL.B degree from the University of Punjab and a LL.M degree from the University of London, UK. Her areas of research and education were Human Rights and Law & Development. She attended the Immigration & Refugee Law Practitioners Certificate Program, at Seneca College and passed it with High Honours.
She has over 12 years of experience in Canada in the access to justice sector assisting new comer immigrants with providing them information about the settlement process and legal information. Mehreen has worked at the Law Society of Upper Canada’s Connecting Communities With Counsel project, with Pro Bono Law Ontario as well as with the South Asian Legal Clinic of Ontario establishing and managing their pro bono project. In her volunteer capacity she served as the Toronto Chair for Equal Voice, as the Vice-President of Council of Agencies Serving South Asians and the Co-Chair of the East Scarborough Storefront.
Mehreen is fluent in English, Urdu, Punjabi and Hindi.
Gleb Morozov
Client Development Consultant - Russia/Eastern Europe
Gleb is a European trained lawyer, who is CDPC’s case manager for advising, managing and developing clients from Eastern Europe and Russia on a wide range of immigration and citizenship matters. Gleb has vast experience in Canadian business class applications, skilled workers, family sponsorships, work and study permits. He also practiced corporate and financial law and worked in the fields of legal and regulatory compliance, financial reporting, development and implementation of policies and internal audits.
In 2006 Gleb joined Green and Spiegel as a law clerk specializing in investor and entrepreneur immigration applications. In 2010 he became a Compliance Auditor at the Canadian Society of Immigration Consultants (CSIC) – a regulatory body for professional immigration consultants. He was later promoted to the position of Investigator in the Complaints & Discipline Dept. As an Investigator Gleb was in charge of leading investigating on complaints made against immigration consultants, many of which involved fraud; he was also responsible for liaising with law enforcement agencies, particularly Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC), Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA), and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) in the course of investigations or whenever contacted by these organizations. Gleb also participated in a number of national conferences on immigration in 2010 and 2011 as a CPD instructor on issues related to regulatory compliance in the Canadian immigration field.
Gleb graduated from the Law School of Slavic University in 2003. He articled and practiced with Brodsky Uskov Looper Reed and Partner from 2003-2006. Prior to launching his career in the immigration field, he was an AVP, Government Affairs with Siemens (Washington, DC) and taught a course to MBA students at Newport University.
At present time Gleb is in ITLP program with the University of Toronto, pursuing his professional designation as a Canadian lawyer. He is also pursuing professional designations as a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) and a Certified Money Laundering Professional (CAMS).
Gleb is fluent in English and Russian. He is also conversant in French, Romanian, Moldovan, Ukrainian, and German.
Rovena Kumbara
Administrative Assistant
Rovena is a former client who had experienced our services first-hand.
Rovena holds a Bachelor Degree in Geography and a Marketing Certificate from Tirana University in Albania.
She has gained valuable experience in immigration, marketing, and administration matters.
Rovena is fluent in English, French, Italian and Albanian.
Princess Ilagan
Administrative Assistant
Princess is a graduate of George Brown College. Prior to joining CDPC she acquired administrative experience while working for the Toronto International Film Festival, the Toronto Centre for the Arts and other cultural institutions.
Princess is fluent in English and speaks basic Tagalog.
Adele Desloges
Receptionist/Social Media Administrator
Adele is likely the first person to greet you when you come to our office. In addition to her duties as our receptionist, she is responsible for administering our firm’s social media strategy. She has over six years of telephone support service experience as well as a background in television and video production.
Adele is fluent in English and has a basic understanding of American Sign Language.