Corporate Law Attorney | Helen R. Schweitzer

Helen Schweitzer is an associate in the firm’s Toronto office who focuses her practice on regulatory law, trust and estate planning, and tax law. She has extensive experience with complex trusts and estates and has assisted clients in various matters involving Canadian health authorities. Before joining Dickinson Wright, Helen worked in a neuroendocrinology research laboratory and in employee and family assistance at a major human resources and technology company.

Education & Credentials

Education

Queen’s University

J.D., 2022

Bader International Study Centre

Certificate, International Business Law

University of British Columbia

B.S., Biology and Psychology, 2017

Bar Admission

Ontario

Publications/Presentations

Co-Author, “Public Safety Canada Releases Updated Guidance on Forced and Child Labour Reporting Rules,” Dickinson Wright Client Alert, February 2025

Co-Author, “CSA Adopts “Access Equals Delivery Model” for Reporting Issuer Prospectuses,” Dickinson Wright Client Alert, January 2024

Co-Author, "A Bridge Too Far: Liability in Ontario for Intrusion Upon Seclusion Limited,” All Things Canada Blog, March 2023

Co-Author, “Brace Yourself – Quebec’s Bill 96 Proposes Substantial Changes to French Language Laws,” Dickinson Wright All Things Canada Blog, June 2021

Tomm, R. J., Tse, M. T., Tobiansky, D. J., Schweitzer, H. R., Soma, K. K., & Floresco, S. B. (2018). Effects of aging on executive functioning and mesocorticolimbic dopamine markers in male Fischer 344 × brown Norway rats. Neurobiology of aging, 72, 134–146.

Tomm, R. J., Seib, D. R., Kachkovski, G. V., Schweitzer, H. R., Tobiansky, D. J., Floresco, S. B., & Soma, K. K. (2022). Androgen synthesis inhibition increases behavioural flexibility and mPFC tyrosine hydroxylase in gonadectomized male rats. Journal of neuroendocrinology, 34(6), e13128.