Partner announcement

Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP Welcomes Hilary Book as Partner

September 2, 2025

Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP is pleased to announce that Hilary Book has joined the firm as a Partner.

Hilary is a respected Toronto trial and appellate lawyer with nearly two decades of experience in commercial litigation. Her practice includes shareholder and partnership disputes, professional negligence cases (plaintiff-side), fraud and conspiracy claims, and commercial real estate litigation.

Nationally recognized for her excellence, Hilary is listed as “Most Frequently Recommended” for Corporate Commercial Litigation in the Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, and named among the “Top 100 Women in Litigation” by Benchmark Canada. She currently serves as President of The Advocates’ Society.

Hilary joins AGM alongside Associate William McLennan and Law Clerk Chelsea Van Berk, further strengthening the firm’s commercial litigation group.

Learn more about Hilary Book and the AGM team here.

Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP

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We are trial lawyers. We protect your business. AGM delivers practical legal, business and risk-management solutions for all manner of commercial, stakeholder, compliance or competition disputes. We care about our clients. AGM begins from the end. By determining the best outcome, we stay steps ahead in creating the most strategic and result- focused negotiation, arbitration or litigation solution. We can handle any case. AGM is ready, willing and able to take the case to court. Our reputation in the courtroom frequently enables us to resolve complex legal and business disputes in the most expedient manner – and always with our clients’ best interest and bottom-line in mind.

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Hilary Book

Affleck Greene McMurtry LLP

Law School

University of Toronto

Year Of Call

2006

Area Of Practice

Commercial