Adela Crossley
Adela Crossley is an experienced and well-known lawyer in Canada, practicing in the areas of Immigration and Refugee Law, Family Law, and Child Protection. She is the Founder and Owner of Crossley Law, a law firm that has earned a reputation for its above-average success rate in both immigration and family law. This success is well earned as Adela has both the substantive legal knowledge gained by earning two Masters Degrees in her two areas of Expertise: Immigration and Family Law.
She has built a solid reputation during the last two decades of being a lawyer who goes the extra mile for her clients, who consistently delivers positive results for her clients, and who believes that sometimes, picking up the phone and speaking to an immigration officer or a lawyer is a fast and cheap way to resolve an issue, instead of billing her client for endless “paperwork” to achieve the very same outcome. Adela is known for thinking outside the box and for being a fearless advocate for her clients, knowing the appropriate strategy to achieve the results her clients retain her to obtain.
Adela Crossley: Legal Expertise in Family, Immigration, and Child Protection Law
Adela graduated from the University of Toronto with an Honours degree in History and Political Science. She then attended law school at Osgoode Hall, York University, and obtained her Bachelor of Law Degree (LL.B), a Master’s degree in Administrative Law (LL.M), and a second Master’s degree in Family Law from Osgoode. Adela has, additionally, extensive training in child protection law, and she regularly provides presentations and workshops on domestic violence against women, immigration, and family law. She is especially adept at navigating the intersection between immigration and family law and has special expertise in Hague Convention applications. Adela has been successful in having abducted children returned to Canada, and she is often referred to difficult cases by many professionals across Canada, such as the Police, Children’s Aid Society, Women’s Shelters, Places of worship, LGBTQ+ community support organizations, as well as other lawyers who recognize and value her special expertise and unique knowledge and skill set.
Adela Crossley takes pride in having built her law firm into one of Canada’s most respected immigration and family law firms. Her office provides both personal and corporate immigration services, as well as a complete array of family law services.
Commitment to Community and Mentorship
Adela formerly worked as a staff lawyer in a legal clinic in Toronto (the Centre for Spanish-Speaking Peoples) before opening her own legal practice in 2008. Her dedication to her clients pervades every aspect of her work. Throughout the years, she has established a solid relationship with many community organizations and is a consulting lawyer for the Mexican Consulate in Toronto. Adela has mentored countless law students, lawyers, and other legal professionals, and she is widely recognized as an accomplished and knowledgeable senior member of the Bar in Canada by her peers and by members of the judiciary and tribunals where she regularly appears as a litigation lawyer.
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Recognized Speaker and Litigator in Immigration and Family Law
Adela is highly sought after as a presenter at legal conferences and has given numerous presentations on both immigration and refugee law for entities such as the Law Society of Ontario, the Ontario Court of Justice, Women’s Shelters, Legal Aid Ontario, etc.
Adela takes special pride in having litigated some of Canada’s leading cases, which have been instrumental in changing the law positively to help countless individuals. Her cases have been highlighted by courts and are regularly cited in decisions in both immigration and family law.
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1280 Finch Ave W., Unit 501, North York, ON M3J 3K6
Email: reception@crossleylaw.com
Tel: 416-850-1073
Text: 637-390-3129
Office hours:
Monday to Friday: 9:30 am to 6 pm
Saturday to Sunday: Consultations by Appointments only