Peter Cho | Toronto Personal Injury Lawyer

Peter is a Partner with Smitiuch Injury Law and has exclusively worked as an injury and wrongful death lawyer his entire career. He has extensive knowledge and experience in acting as a fearless advocate to obtain compensation and accident benefits for injured individuals and families.
 
Peter has acted as counsel on a number of trials and arbitration hearings at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the Financial Services Commission of Ontario.
 
Most notably, Peter was co-counsel in Stilwell v. Corning Inc., the first successful trial verdict against Corning in North America involving Visions cookware. The trial verdict was upheld by the Ontario Court of Appeal.
 
In December 2014, as co-counsel with Mike and Megan, Peter helped to obtain a jury verdict against Glen Eagle Golf Club for over $1.8 million in damages and interest.
 
In March 2015, Peter was lead counsel with co-counsel, Luke, in a judge alone trial arising from serious personal injuries sustained by a minor Plaintiff while boarding an amusement park ride with his father at Centreville Amusement Park (Bhatt v William Beasley Enterprises Limited). At trial, Peter successfully obtained a Judgment in favour of the minor Plaintiff and his parents against William Beasley Enterprises Limited.
 
Recently, Peter was acknowledged by the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association for his work as a trial lawyer and was presented with the 2016 Martin Wunder, Q.C. Outstanding New Lawyer Award.
 
Peter continues to pursue his goal of becoming a leading advocate in the field of personal injury law with an emphasis in the areas of occupiers’ liability, product liability, police brutality, wrongful death, motor vehicle accident claims and statutory accident benefits.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Partner	Smitiuch Injury Law	Toronto, ON	Present

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
Osgoode Hall L S York University	J.D.	Law School	2010
University of Toronto	Bachelors		2007

State / Court	Date
Ontario

• Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, Recipient of the OTLA Martin Wunder Q.C., Outstanding New Lawyer Award, 2016 , 2011 - Present
  Korean Canadian Lawyers Association, Member, 2010 - Present
  Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers, Member, 2013 - Present
  The Advocates’ Society, Member, 2015 - Present

• Parkdale and Rexdale Community Legal Services , 2009 - 2010

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Verified Credentials	Date Verified
Practising Lawyer in Ontario. Verified with Law Society of Upper Canada.	September 25, 2019

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