In order to facilitate access to various versions of my CV, to reduce the amount of time I spend sharing individuals files, I have created access here to three versions: (1) a 100 word informal bio with photo (2) a two-paragraph formal bio with photo and the long form CV that details each publication and speech.
Link to LONG FORM DETAILED CV:
The really FUN format:
ANITA SZIGETI
Lawyer: U of T (1990) Law grad, Ontario (1992) and Nunavut (2014) Bars.
Founder, Anita Szigeti Advocates, Toronto. Mental health law expert: criminal and civil.
Litigator: Tribunal and appeals.
Mentor of young women.
Co-Author: Canadian Anthology on Mental Health and the Law; Law and Mental Health in Canada: Cases and Materials; A Guide to Consent and Capacity Law in Ontario; A Guide to Mental Disorder Law in Canadian Criminal Justice; Halsbury’s Mental Health Law
Co-Director, Mental Health Law LLM course, Osgoode Professional Development. Teaches Trial Advocacy, U of T Law.
Boards: President, Law and Mental Disorder Association (LAMDA). Secretary, Women in Canadian Criminal Defence (WiCCD). Former Women’s Director, Toronto Director and Chair, Mental Disorder Portfolio, Criminal Lawyers’ Association (CLA). Board Member: National Association of Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA), and Pilot Place Society (PPS).
Person: Spouse, Mom, lipstick and coffee aficionado. Encyclopaedic knowledge of dog breeds. Budapest-born, fluent in Hungarian. Go Jays Go!! THIS is our Year!
100 – 150 Word Somewhat More Formal Bio:
Anita Szigeti: U of T (1990) Law grad, Ontario (1992) and Nunavut (2014) Bars. Principal lawyer, Anita Szigeti Advocates. Mental health law expert, criminal and civil. Co-Author: Canadian Anthology on Mental Health and the Law; Law and Mental Health in Canada: Cases and Materials; A Guide to Consent and Capacity Law in Ontario; A Guide to Mental Disorder Law in Canadian Criminal Justice; Halsbury’s Mental Health Law. President, Law and Mental Disorder Association (LAMDA). Secretary, Women in Canadian Criminal Defence (WiCCD). Former Women’s Director, Toronto Director and Chair, Mental Disorder Portfolio, Criminal Lawyers’ Association (CLA). Teaches Trial Advocacy, U of T Law. Board Member: National Association of Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA) – Emeritus, and Pilot Place Society (PPS). Tribunal and appellate litigator. Spouse, Mom, lipstick and coffee aficionado. Loves dogs. Starting not to hate cats.
Two paragraph summary of Professional Activities:
Anita Szigeti graduated from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law in 1990 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1992. She is the founding lawyer of Anita Szigeti Advocates, a Toronto litigation boutique in mental health justice. She is currently co-director of the Mental Health Law course within the Health Law LLM at Osgoode Professional Development, where she obtained a Certificate in Tribunal Adjudication in 2018. Ms. Szigeti has published widely in this area, including as co-author of several textbooks on mental health law across Canada. These include the LexisNexis publications: Halsbury’s on Mental Health Law (2023), A Guide to Consent and Capacity Law in Ontario (2023), and A Guide to Mental Disorder in Canadian Criminal Justice (2020), Law and Mental Health in Canada: Cases and Materials (2023), and the forthcoming Canadian Anthology on Mental Health and the Law. She is a recognized expert in the area of mental disorder in both civil and criminal law contexts. She has been retained as an expert witness in mental health justice matters. Ms. Szigeti has been a leader in the field for 30 years at the Ontario bar and has been representing clients in Nunavut since 2014 as a member of the Nunavut Law Society. In 2016, she joined the prestigious Trial Advocacy faculty at the University of Toronto law school.
Ms. Szigeti was the Chair of the Mental Health Legal Committee (MHLC) for a decade and the founding first Chair of Legal Aid Ontario’s Mental Health Law & Policy Advisory Group. For six years, she served as an elected Toronto Director of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association (CLA) and the Association’s Chair of its Mental Disorder Portfolio. She also served as the CLA’s Women’s Director through COVID in 2020-2021. Ms. Szigeti is the founder and President of the Law And Mental Disorder Association (LAMDA), a national umbrella advocacy organization of 200 lawyers practising mental health law. She is the Secretary of Women in Canadian Criminal Defence (WiCCD), a national advocacy organization for women and gender non-conforming criminal defence lawyers in Canada. Ms. Szigeti’s community involvement extends to membership on the governing body of several other organizations, including as the sole Canadian representative (now Emeritus) on the Board of Directors of the National Association of Rights Protection and Advocacy (NARPA), an American advocacy organization based in Colorado, and Pilot Place Society, a not for profit 24/7 supervised housing service provider in Toronto.
Anita’s litigation career spans thousands of tribunal level cases, hundreds of cases argued in appellate Courts including more than a dozen in the Supreme Court of Canada. Anita has also been involved in too many death inquiries focusing on police use of force in interactions with persons in crisis and just as many high profile Inquests concerning other mental health related deaths. In 2016, she joined the prestigious Trial Advocacy faculty at the University of Toronto law school. Teaching advocacy is a long time passion for Anita who has also taught the substantive law of mental disorder throughout her career to Crowns, Coroners, adjudicators, psychiatrists, defence lawyers, clients, their families and anyone else who asked. She has particular expertise in training tribunal, board and agency adjudicators on how to address mental health matters culturally competently. When she’s not mentoring new generations of (mostly women) lawyers or at a Jays’ game with her family, Anita is found in a (now virtual, sadly) courtroom almost every day. She’s happiest litigating on behalf of vulnerable people, giving a voice to those who otherwise may not be heard at all. When she wins the occasional case, it shocks her most of all, but she lives for those days.
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