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 has been recognized as a One to Watch by Canada’s Best Lawyers (2026) for corporate and commercial litigation.

Daniel regularly acts as counsel in commercial, shareholder, investor, real estate, estates and regulatory disputes. Daniel advises and represents major corporations and board members in complex commercial disputes, including securities disputes. He has guided multiple clients through commercial rent renewal arbitrations, and has represented clients in actions, 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 litigation and advisory counsel to board members of large publicly traded corporations
• 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, dependants’ relief claims and complex corporate guardianship matters
• 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

• Aon Inc. v. City of Peterborough, 2025 ONSC 4240: Successfully resisted summary judgment motion of a municipality in a breach of contract action involving allegations of bad faith against the city. RN LLP persuaded the Court to rule that the applicable limitation period was the Real Property Limitations Act
• Carbone v. Boccia, 2025 ONSC 1966: Successfully obtained summary judgment for over $1 million in damages in a commercial fraud dispute

• Pizzi v Nouini Estate: Successfully resisted allegations of undue influence and constructive trust, and defeated a will challenge

• Pizzi v Nouini Estate, 2025 ONSC 4974: Successfully resisted a motion to compel answers to undertakings in full in the context of an estates dispute

• 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

Awards

• Best Lawyers in Canada:
  • Ones to Watch Canada (2026)

• 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)
• Instructor, The Osgoode Certificate in E-Discovery, Information Governance and Privacy (2026)