Daniel Milton

Daniel Milton is a litigator at Ross Nasseri LLP with a broad litigation practice. Daniel is a confident, well rounded and creative advocate who uses his effective cross examination and strong courtroom advocacy to obtain results for clients. He has significant trial, arbitration, and appeal experience and has appeared before every level of court in Ontario. Daniel prides himself on providing clients with comprehensive, well-reasoned and strategic advice so clients can be confident proceeding to litigation, or negotiating a fair settlement.

Daniel regularly acts as counsel in commercial, shareholder, investor, real estate and regulatory disputes. He has guided multiple clients through commercial rent renewal arbitrations, and has represented clients in mediations and arbitrations concerning shareholder oppression claims, estate claims and wrongful dismissal claims. Daniel is also a capable appellate litigator. He has successfully argued a commercial appeal concerning the distribution of partnership funds at the Ontario Court of Appeal, and acted as intervener counsel before multiple levels of court in a high-profile case concerning the constitutionality of changes to electoral spending limits and the use of the notwithstanding clause.

Daniel’s practice also includes representing clients who were victims of corporate and investor fraud, and crisis management. He has successfully obtained judgment against corporations and their directors for fraudulent invoicing practices and cheque fraud, and has obtained urgent Mareva and Norwich orders to freeze assets related to investment fraud. Daniel has experience bringing and defending against motions seeking urgent injunctive relief, including defending against municipal by-law violations.

Before joining the firm, Daniel was a litigation associate at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP’s Toronto office, where he acted on trials and appeals in corporate/commercial, construction, and constitutional cases.

Daniel received a J.D. from the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Law. Daniel graduated with distinction, and on the Dean’s List, and was the recipient of several prizes including the Norman Levy Prize in Jurisprudence and awards as top individual oralist and best appellant factum in the Callaghan competitive moot. Prior to law school, Daniel completed an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from McGill University, where he graduated with First Class Honours. Daniel was also a decorated, internationally-ranked debater who represented McGill University at multiple World and North American Championships.

Daniel is a member of the Ontario Bar Association, The Advocates’ Society, and the Toronto Lawyers Association, and volunteers with Pro Bono Ontario.

Representative Matters

• Acts as counsel to both commercial landlords and tenants, including acting as counsel to a landlord in a rent renewal arbitration concerning a prominent commercial space leased to a major bank
• Acts as counsel in estate disputes including will challenges and dependants’ relief claims
• Acted as counsel for a large gold company in a supply contract dispute
• Acted as counsel for a major surety bonding company in a complex infrastructure dispute

Decisions

• FactR Limited v. R.R.I.C.H. Construction, 2024 ONSC 479; successfully obtained judgement against two construction companies and their principal for breach of contract, invoicing fraud and cheque fraud, including full indemnity costs
• Alchuk v. 44 Toronto, 2024 ONSC 417; counsel in a complex motion concerning civil and municipal by-law injunctions related to the operation of an entertainment venue
• Physicians’ Dialysis Center Inc. v. Credit Valley Hospital, 2023 ONCA 402; successfully appealed a damages award in a breach of trust and fiduciary duty dispute
• Carbone v. Boccia, 2023 ONSC 2282; successfully obtained procedural orders to add an evasive party as a defendant
• Carbone et al v. Boccia et al, 2023 ONSC 3625 ; successfully obtained a Norwich Order and Mareva injunction in a fraud dispute
• Working Families Coalition (Canada) Inc. v. Ontario (Attorney General), 2021 ONSC 7697 & 2023 ONCA 339; acted as an intervener before both the Ontario Superior Court and Ontario Court of Appeal in a constitutional dispute concerning election advertising spending limits

Firm

• Best Law Firms in Canada 2025:
  • Tier 1 Nationally for Corporate and Commercial Litigation
  • Tier 1 in Toronto for Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Administrative and Public Law, Appellate Practice
• Chambers Canada 2025: Highly Regarded firm in Commercial Litigation in Ontario (2024)
• Lexpert :
  • Recognized as a Consistently Recommended firm for Corporate/Commercial Litigation (2024)
  • Repeatedly Recommended firm for Professional Liability by Lexpert (2024)
  • Who’s Who Bullseye for leading firms in Civil Litigation (2024)
  • Who’s Who Bullseye for leading firms in Commercial Litigation (2024)
• Benchmark Litigation :
  • Leading litigation firm in Canada (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)
  • Highly Recommended Firm (2025)
  • Litigation Boutique Firm of the Year (2025)
• RN LLP recognized in The Globe and Mail’s Canada’s Best Law Firms list for Dispute Resolution (Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations) (2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

• Lucas v. Semelhago: Is it Open Season for Specific Performance? in Justice Darla A. WIlson (ed.), Annual Review of Civil Litigation, 2024 (Thomson Reuters) (co-authored with Gordon Vance and Sara Romeih)