Steven Skurka Steven Skurka, a principal at Skurka & Spina LLP, is an experienced criminal-defence lawyer with vast trial and jury experience. His practice has included the defence of white-collar crime and discipline matters, child abuse and sexual assault cases, homicide cases and the defence of police officers. Mr. Skurka acted as counsel to the Ontario Crown Attorneys’ Association at the Morin Inquiry and was lead counsel to John Paul Roby in the Maple Leaf Gardens case. Mr. Skurka was trial counsel and co-counsel at the Ontario Court of Appeal in the Dee Brown racial profiling case. He also works regularly with American attorneys in cases involving cross-border consultations, and is a frequent contributor to the NACDL publication, The Champion.

Mr. Skurka is a certified specialist in criminal litigation, a former vice-president and director of the Criminal Lawyers’ Association, and a member of the executive of the Criminal Justice Section of the Canadian Bar Association. He is an adjunct professor in criminal procedure at Osgoode Hall Law School and a regular member of the faculty for the Ontario College of Advocacy Training. He has appeared on numerous educational panels including those on behalf of the Ontario Crown Attorneys’ Association, the Department of Justice and the National Judicial Institute. He has been invited to teach and participate in panels at Griffith Law School in Australia and at Harvard Law School, and is the legal analyst for Canada’s nation-wide morning news program, Canada AM.

Mr. Skurka is a co-author of a book on jury selection in criminal trials and has authored a number of articles published in leading criminal-law journals. He is also a co-author on the chapter on professional responsibility in criminal practice for the criminal procedure section of the Bar Admission Course.