Juda Strawczynski is a lawyer and frequent speaker on legal services regulation and practice. He is the CEO and Registrar of the College of Patents & Trademark Agents (CPATA), the independent public interest regulator of patent agents and trademark agents in Canada. He was previously Director of practicePRO, LAWPRO’s claims prevention and risk management initiative, where he led its claims prevention, resource development, continuing professional development programming and educational outreach efforts. Before joining LAWPRO, Juda was a policy counsel at the Law Society of Ontario, advising on key issues facing the legal professions including access to justice, professional regulation and consumer protection issues. Juda previously practiced at two litigation boutique law firms. He has also served as the volunteer President of Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights, a Fellow at Physicians for Human Rights, a law clerk at the Federal Court, and a Director of the Canada Millennium Scholarship Foundation. Juda has a B.A. from McGill University and JD from the University of Toronto. He lives in Toronto, Canada.
