Dean Pritchard Posted: 10:15 PM CDT Friday, Jul. 30, 2021 Print Email Jeff Gindin (from left), Richard Wolson, Saul Simmonds and Evan Roitenberg are splitting up their law firm after 26 years in business. (Mikaela Mac. Kenzie / Winnipeg Free Press) And then there were three.
And then there were three.
Law firm Gindin Wolson Simmonds Roitenberg, whose namesakes are among the city's most recognized and headline-grabbing criminal lawyers, is hanging up its shingle, effective Aug. 1.
In its place, say hello to three new firms: Gindin Segal Law, Wolson, Roitenberg, Robinson, Wolson, Minuk, and Simmonds and Associates.
"It's an exciting new step in the way we are going to practice," Saul Simmonds said Friday as he packed up boxes in his longtime firm's Broadway office. "It's bittersweet, but it will pay dividends for everyone." Jeff Gindin, Richard Wolson, and Simmonds started the firm in 1995, with Evan Roitenberg coming on board in 2003. During its 26-year history, the firm's four principals have been at the centre of some of the province's and Canada's most high-profile criminal cases, including: the Phoenix Sinclair and Karlheinz Schreiber inquiries, the defences of Mark Grant, tried two times and ultimately acquitted in the 1984 killing of teen Candace Derksen, disgraced hockey coach and sexual predator Graham James, and Derek Harvey-Zenk, the former Winnipeg Police Service constable, whose arrest for a 2005 highway crash that killed Crystal Taman led to an inquiry and allegations of a police cover-up.
Saul Simmonds (from left), Evan Roitenberg, Jeff Gindin, and Richard Wolson have been involved with some of the province's most high-profile criminal cases. (Mikaela Mac. Kenzie / Winnipeg Free Press) Between them, Gindin, Wolson, Simmonds and Roitenberg have roughly 170 years of experience.
"When I think about what we've done, it does give you pause as you take things apart," Roitenberg said. "It's never been dull." The decision to dissolve Gindin Wolson Simmonds Roitenberg and reconstitute the staff into three new firms came at a time when the partners were deciding whether they wanted to commit to a new five-year lease.
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