The lawyers and staff of Thomson, Rogers have always been actively involved in our community.

• Craig Brown, Alan Farrer and Darcy Merkur of Thomson, Rogers played a major role as part of the consortium of lawyers that negotiated a settlement on behalf of Residential School Survivors across Canada. To mark this historic achievement, Thomson, Rogers has made significant financial contributions to several Aboriginal Organizations across Ontario to help them provide much-needed programs to Aboriginal individuals and communities, and to recognize the assistance that these organizations have provided to Residential School Survivors over the years.
  
  (From left to right : Darcy Merkur of Thomson, Rogers with Larry Frost of the Native Canadian Centre.)

  Thomson, Rogers continues to assist individual survivors to settle their abuse claims through the Independent Assessment Process.

  Contact Darcy Merkur or Marcia Pritzker Schmitt toll free at 1-888-223-0448 for more information.

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• The Thomson, Rogers' Holiday Wish Fund was again a tremendous success.

  The Fund was started in 2006, with monies being made available to
  various head injury and spinal cord associations for the intentions of
  helping individual families in a time of need. This year our financial
  contributions were approximately $20,000.00.

  
  (David A. Payne of Thomson, Rogers pictured with CPA Ontario staff members Kevin Rogers, John Agnew and Loriedelle Addun.)

  See Letter of thanks from Canadian Paraplegic Association Ontario Executive Director, Bill Adair.

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• Thomson, Rogers a Smash at ICEWAVE 2008 Beach Volleyball Tournament for SickKids!

  The fine folks at Thomson, Rogers took to the court and served, set and smashed their way in the ICEWAVE 2008 Beach Volleyball Tournament for SickKids. Held on February 3rd, two TR 8-person teams, the SandBlasters and the Spike-O-Paths, fought bravely for sand-supremacy against other charitable teams. Unfortunately, it was not meant to be for the TR crew, winning only one game between them (by default - the other team did not show up), TR’s coach Joe Pileggi has vowed to return with a leaner and meaner group. All in all, this was a (bitter) taste of summer that chased away the winter blahs and helped raise quite a few dollars to support The Hospital for SickKids Foundation.
  
  (Top Row: John Medina, Joe Soares, Roseanne O'Neill, Aleks Mladenovic, Giulia Ruscillo, Tammy Chrons, Mary DiLucia, Laurie Running, Rosemarie Ljubicic)

  (Middle Row: Shelley Karstovsky, Marianne Trentadue, Elisa O'Neill, Lucy Mignardi, Karen Airlie)

  (Front Row: Kristina Singer, Elizabeth Stacey, Natalie Beniaminov
  Joseph Pileggi (not pictured) )

  The next SickKids volleyball tournament is HEATWAVE 2008 in July at Ashbridge’s Bay. Get ready we’re coming.

  Team tryouts will be posted.

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• We are a long time supporter of the dynamic CHIRS CardSharks+ program.



• St. Michael’s Hospital Head Injury and Neuro Trauma program has received over $50,000.00.
• We are Annual Co-Sponsors of the Canadian Paraplegic Association’s Knowledge Mobilization Seminar Series in the amount of $12,500 per year.
• As part of the Canadian Paraplegic Association’s Toronto Wheelchair Relay No Limits Challenge, Thomson, Rogers and Rehabilitation Planning Inc. joined forces and were the third highest corporate fund raiser.
• Thomson, Rogers has been a long time supporter of the Community Head Injury Resource Services – CHIRS of Toronto. Since its inception, various Thomson, Roger members including Joseph Pileggi, Leonard Kunka, Scott Southwell and Robert Brent have been on the Board of Directors.
• Thomson, Rogers is also a proud contributor to the Scott Southwell ABI Assistance Fund created to honour the memory of our long time employee and friend, Scott Southwell.
• Ken Howie is one of the oldest members of the Canadian Paraplegic Association. He was also one of the original board members of the Canadian Spinal Cord Research Organization.
• For years, Roger Beaman and Jeff Wilker have provided a tremendous amount of free legal advice to community groups, including the Centennial Community Recreation Association, one of the oldest community rate payer organization's in the City. In 1990, as legal counsel to the Community, they successfully delayed the development of the Johns Manville Asbestos Factory for residential homes until all of the proper safeguards were put in place.

In addition, the partners of Thomson, Rogers have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to charities to help assist them in providing vital services to our clients.