Legal Career
Grafstein is a graduate of the University of Toronto Law School (1958). While at law School, he was active in intramural sports at Hart House, debates and class governance and received the highest standing in International Law. He was admitted to the Bar of Ontario in 1960, and was a member of the Bar of North West Territories for almost a decade in the 70’s and early 80’s. He lectured in Commercial Law and later instructed in the Bar Admissions Course at Osgoode Hall Law School. He has given lectures to law students on the role of lawyers in civil society.
He served as Chairman of the Media and Communications Law subsection of the Canadian and Ontario Bar Associations.
Grafstein was appointed Queen's Counsel by the Province of Ontario in 1972.
Since his retirement from the Senate on January 2, 2010, Grafstein serves as Counsel to Minden Gross LLP in Toronto, a firm he joined in 1960.
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