Maurice Vaturi
Senior Counsel
Our Firm
About VC LawyersVaturi & Cho LLP — Toronto’s full-service boutique law firm
Trusted by accident victims and businesses across Ontario
Overview
VC Lawyers — formally Vaturi & Cho LLP — is a Toronto full-service law firm built around two ideas. First, that the lawyer who first meets you should be the same lawyer who closes your file: no handing files off to junior associates, no client-as-case-number, no surprises late in the matter. Second, that legal work is communication work. The most carefully drafted contract or strongest tort claim is worthless if a client cannot follow what is happening in their own case. Both ideas have shaped how the firm has grown over more than seven decades of combined practice.
Today the firm represents accident victims, families, business owners, real-estate buyers and sellers, and estate beneficiaries across Toronto and Ontario. Our lawyers are members in good standing with the Law Society of Ontario. We have recovered over $30 million for personal-injury clients, supervised more than $1.2 billion in business and real-estate transactions, and closed over 4,000 real-estate matters. We work in eight languages so that nothing about your case has to live inside a translation.
By the numbers
The work in numbers
- Recovered for personal injury clients
- $30M+
- Business and real estate transactions
- $1.2B+
- Real estate files closed
- 4,000+
- Years combined experience
- 70+
- Languages spoken at the firm
- 8
- Hotline for urgent cases
- 24/7
Recovered for personal injury clients
Business and real estate transactions
Real estate files closed
Years combined experience
Languages spoken at the firm
Hotline for urgent cases
Our story
Two partners, one common-sense practice
Vaturi & Cho LLP took its name from the partnership of Avi Vaturi and Jae Hyon Cho, two senior litigators whose practices grew up across complementary parts of Ontario law. Avi led real-estate and corporate-commercial work; Jae led the personal-injury and civil-litigation side. The two had spent years working with overlapping client communities — small-business owners, immigrant families, accident victims who were trying to navigate a legal system that was not built in a language they had spoken at home — and saw the same gap appear over and over: a senior lawyer who could see the whole picture, take a phone call on the same day, and give the client a straight answer.
What started as a focused boutique has grown into a multi-disciplinary firm that still operates by those rules. Today the team includes Maurice Vaturi as Senior Counsel — the firm’s most senior advisor on complex civil and corporate files; partners Avi Vaturi and Jae Hyon Cho; associates Jun Ki Lee and Allan Weiss; and Immigration Consultant Kate Min Kwon. The firm works out of a single Toronto office at 1110 Finch Avenue West, with reach across the GTA — including hospital and home visits when a client is too injured to travel.
What has not changed is the firm’s character. We took on additional practice areas only when we could staff them with senior counsel and bilingual support. We declined the volume model that turns law firms into call centres. And we kept our roster small enough that, when you call about your file, the person who knows it answers.
What full-service boutique means
Big-firm depth, boutique-firm access
The phrase “full-service boutique” gets used a lot in Canadian legal marketing. For us it has a precise meaning. “Boutique” is the access promise — that you will work directly with a senior lawyer who knows your file, that the same person handles your call and your court appearance, and that decisions about your case are not delegated to a paralegal billing from a satellite office.
“Full-service” is what we can do under one roof. Most accident files do not stay in a single legal lane. A car-accident plaintiff may also need a will, a real-estate purchase, or advice on a small business that the injury has put at risk. A real-estate buyer may need civil litigation if a transaction goes sideways. Estate matters cross into family law and tax. Coordinating those across multiple firms costs the client time, money, and continuity. Our practice is structured so that one senior lawyer can either handle a related matter directly or hand it off internally to a colleague who already understands the family.
That structure — small enough to be accessible, broad enough to be useful — is what “full-service boutique” means at VC Lawyers.
What we believe
Five values that shape every file
Senior counsel on every file
When you retain VC Lawyers you retain a senior lawyer — not a name on a letterhead while a junior carries the work. The lawyer who takes your first call is the lawyer responsible for your case from intake through resolution. We say no to files we cannot staff at that level.Honest disclosure on every step
Insurance defence will tell you a case is worth less than it is. Some plaintiffs’ firms will tell you it is worth more. We tell you what it is actually worth, in writing, before you decide whether to proceed — and if our assessment changes during the file we tell you that too.Multilingual representation as the default
Roughly one in three of our clients does not speak English as a first language. We answer in the client’s language — Korean, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin, Nepali — at the consult, in correspondence, and at every status update. The English-speaking family member does not have to be on every call.Contingency fees that align our incentives
Personal-injury clients pay nothing to retain us. We carry the cost of medical experts, accident reconstructionists and litigation disbursements through to settlement or verdict. If we do not recover for you, you pay no fees. If we do, our percentage is set in writing at retention — not negotiated after the fact.Direct access for urgent matters
After-hours arrests, emergency-room interviews and urgent insurance deadlines do not respect a 9-to-5 phone tree. The firm’s 24/7 hotline routes urgent calls directly to a lawyer — not to voicemail and not to an answering service script.
Practice areas
Where we work
Six practice areas, each run by senior counsel with the depth of experience to handle the most complex files in their fields. Tap any area to see the full scope of work and recent results.
Personal injury & insurance
Car, truck, motorcycle, transit, pedestrian and cycling accidents; brain and spinal cord injuries; long-term and CPP disability claims; statutory accident benefits (SABS) and Licence Appeal Tribunal disputes; product liability; slip-and-fall and occupier’s liability.Learn moreReal estate
Residential and commercial purchases, sales and refinances; title insurance; mortgage closings; title-fraud rectification; title-related litigation. Over 4,000 files closed and counting.Learn moreCorporate commercial
Business incorporations under OBCA and CBCA; shareholder agreements; share and asset purchases; commercial leases; supplier and distribution contracts; corporate governance and minute-book maintenance.Learn moreWills, estates & probate
Will preparation; powers of attorney; estate trustee applications and Certificate of Appointment; estate administration; cross-border estate planning where Canadian and Korean assets are both in play.Learn moreFamily law
Separation agreements; divorce; equalisation of net family property under Ontario’s NFP regime; child support and spousal support per the Child Support Guidelines and SSAG; custody and access.Learn moreCivil litigation
Commercial disputes; contract enforcement; breach-of-duty claims; Small Claims Court matters under $35,000; Superior Court of Justice civil suits; Licence Appeal Tribunal hearings; Ontario Court of Appeal advocacy.Learn more
Languages
Eight languages, one law firm
Almost a third of Toronto’s population speaks a language other than English at home. The legal system, however, is built almost entirely in English — written contracts, doctor’s reports, OCF forms, court pleadings, settlement agreements. When clients hand off comprehension to a family member or a paid interpreter, important details get lost. Worse, an interpreter’s small misstep can land in writing and travel through the file for years.
We staff the firm so that in-language representation is the default, not an exception. Jae Hyon Cho and Jun Ki Lee handle Korean-language files end-to-end — first call to court appearance — and coordinate with our network of Korean lawyers in Seoul on cross-border family, estate and asset matters. Avi Vaturi and Maurice Vaturi work in Hebrew with Toronto’s Jewish community. Across the firm we have working capability in French, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin and Nepali, depending on lawyer assignment.
Working in language is not just hospitality — it is risk management. A client who fully understands what they are signing is less likely to sign something they should not. A client who can describe their pain in their first language gives a more accurate witness statement. A family member who is freed from translation duty can support the client emotionally instead of grammatically.
Eight languages, one firm. The translation does not happen in your living room — it happens in our office, before the documents are filed.
How we work with clients
Practical commitments we make to every client
First consultation is free, in your language, no obligation
Thirty minutes, on the phone or in person, with a senior lawyer. We tell you whether we think you have a case, what it is likely worth, and what we would do next. You decide whether to retain us at the end.Contingency fee for personal-injury cases — no fees unless we recover
Medical experts, accident reconstructionists and litigation costs are advanced by the firm. If we do not recover for you, you pay no fees. If we do, our percentage is set in writing at retention.Home and hospital visits across the GTA
If a client is too injured to come to the office, a lawyer comes to them — at the hospital, the rehab centre, or the home. The visit is free.Direct phone numbers, not call centres
Each client gets the direct line of the lawyer handling their file. After-hours emergencies route through the 24/7 hotline to a lawyer — not voicemail.Korean and Hebrew documentation alongside the English original
Settlement agreements, retainer agreements and major status updates are translated into the client’s first language by the lawyer on the file — so what you sign is what you understood.
The team
The lawyers and people behind the firm
Maurice Vaturi serves as Senior Counsel — the firm’s most senior advisor on complex civil and corporate matters. Avi Vaturi and Jae Hyon Cho are the firm’s two named partners and lead the corporate-commercial / real-estate and personal-injury / civil-litigation departments respectively. Jun Ki Lee is an associate handling Korean-language personal injury and civil files. Allan Weiss is an associate handling civil litigation and corporate matters. Kate Min Kwon, Immigration Consultant, leads the firm’s immigration and family-sponsorship practice for Korean-speaking clients.
Each lawyer has a profile page with full credentials, languages, practice focus and bar admissions. The team page also shows working languages and contact details for direct outreach.
If you are not sure which lawyer your matter should go to, the front-desk team triages files at intake — we will route you to the right person within 24 hours.
Avi Vaturi
Partner
Jae Hyon Cho
Partner
Jun Ki Lee
Associate
Allan Weiss
Associate
Kate Min Kwon
Immigration Consultant
RCIC R529664 · RQIC 11726
Where we work
Toronto office, GTA-wide service
Our office is at 1110 Finch Avenue West, Suite 310, in the Willowdale / North York area of Toronto — a short walk from Finch West Station on the TTC’s Line 1, with parking on site. The location is convenient for clients across the GTA, particularly those in North York, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, and the Finch West / Keele corridor.
For clients who cannot travel — recovering from a serious injury, caring for a child, or otherwise constrained — we conduct video consultations and home or hospital visits across the GTA. We represent clients in Toronto, North York, Scarborough, Etobicoke, Mississauga, Brampton, Oakville, Vaughan, Richmond Hill, Pickering, Ajax, Whitby, Oshawa, Newmarket and Aurora; we represent clients across Ontario through video and document-by-courier intake when an in-person meeting is not practical.
The office is wheelchair accessible. Translation is available on request for any in-person meeting in our working languages — English, French, Korean, Hebrew, Spanish, Cantonese, Mandarin and Nepali. Email and the firm’s main number reach a real human during business hours; after-hours calls route to the 24/7 hotline.
Recognition
Memberships and professional standing
VC Lawyers maintains active membership and good standing with the Law Society of Ontario, the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (OTLA), the Toronto Lawyers Association, the Canadian Bar Association, and the Ontario Bar Association. We work in formal partnership with the Korean Legal Clinic and have a working referral relationship with the Consulate General of the Republic of Korea in Toronto.
Recent awards and individual lawyer recognitions are listed on our awards page when content is finalised. For client-side feedback, the firm’s public Google rating sits at 4.8 stars across more than 140 reviews — selections of which appear on our testimonials page.
Talk to a lawyer
Suffered an injury? Closing on a property? Need a will?
Whatever brought you to this page, the next step is the same: a free thirty-minute consultation with a senior lawyer in the language you prefer. Tell us what is happening, and within that conversation we will tell you whether you have a case, what it is likely worth, and what we would do next.
Toronto office hours, 24/7 emergency hotline, no obligation.
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