Eric S. Charleston

Associate | Toronto


Portrait of Eric S. Charleston


Eric is an insurance lawyer. He provides comprehensive coverage advice on every type of insurance and defends complex, high-exposure claims in all insurance contexts, including Directors and Officers, Errors and Omissions, Commercial General Liability and other specialty coverages.

Eric is a privacy and cybersecurity lawyer. He is a certified Canadian information privacy professional (CIPP/C) and cyber incident first responder. He helps clients navigate Canada’s federal and provincial privacy law framework, offering guidance on threat neutralization, data classification, breach reporting, and regulatory compliance.

Eric is a trial lawyer. He has taken multiple high-stakes cases to trial. He has successfully defended clients ranging from mom-and-pop vendors to international conglomerates against a broad range of claims, including catastrophic personal injury, privacy breach, environmental contamination, property damage, product liability, professional negligence and breach of fiduciary duty. He has significant experience with every aspect of the litigation process, and he has achieved positive outcomes in dozens of mediations.