Michael Switzer is an Associate and a member of the Business Disputes and Labour + Employment practice groups.
Michael joined Alexander Holburn as an articling student in the summer of 2022, after completing his second year at the Peter A. Allard school of law at the University of British Columbia, where he has received the Borden Ladner Gervais Professional Excellence Award and Kenneth Douglas Landels Memorial Award in Law. He returned for his articles in 2023 prior to joining the firm as an associate.
Prior to law school, Michael completed a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Toronto, with majors in International Relations and Philosophy. He was the recipient of several academic awards, including the Ian Drummond Book Prize, Meltzer Memorial Scholarship, George Ignatieff Scholarship, and the John Hart Hunter Memorial Scholarship. He has served as the deputy executive director for the Canadian Centre for the Responsibility to Protect; the male Head of Arts at Trinity College at the University of Toronto; and an Associate at The Park Group.