Samantha Eisen, Family Lawyer

Samantha is an effective advocate for her clients, using her background in psychology and experience as both a family lawyer and civil litigator to help clients navigate difficult legal processes with a focused, balanced and trauma-informed approach. Samantha aims to empower clients by providing options, guidance, and advice in an empathetic and supportive manner, while encouraging clients to make choices that best serve their needs and interests. Clients appreciate Samantha’s ability to help them understand what is happening and what to expect along the way.

Samantha practices in all areas of family law with a particular focus on complex income and property issues, child support and spousal support, parenting and decision making, and intimate partner violence, gender-based violence, and spousal assault and abuse.

Prior to establishing the Toronto Family Lawyer, Samantha practiced family law at two highly respected boutique law firms in Toronto, the first where she practiced exclusively family law and the second, where she practiced both family law and civil litigation, with a focus on cases involving gender-based violence, assault, and abuse.  Samantha was named Best Lawyers Ones to Watch in 2024.

Samantha is active in the profession and the community. She volunteers for the Luke’s Place Virtual Legal Clinic, providing summary legal advice to survivors of domestic violence and for the Pro Bono Students Canada Family Justice Centre, supervising law students and providing free legal services to parties in need. Samantha is an adjunct mooting advisor for the Walsh Family Law Negotiation Competition at the University of Toronto, a position she has held since 2018.

Samantha holds a Juris Doctor Law Degree from the University of Toronto and a B.Sc. (Hons.) from Dalhousie University. She is currently completing her Master of Laws at Osgoode Hall Law School, specializing in Dispute Resolution. Samantha is a member of the Advocates’ Society, the Ontario Bar Association, the Canadian Bar Association and the Law Society of Ontario.