Kiri McDermott-Berryman
Kiri McDermott-Berryman is an associate in Dolden Wallace Folick LLP’s Toronto office. Her practice focuses on insurance defence and civil litigation. She has experience handling claims involving personal injury, occupiers’ liability, product liability, professional negligence, aviation, municipal liability, and fertility law.
Kiri represents insurers, municipalities, and institutional clients at all stages of the litigation process, including motions, discoveries, mediations, and pre-trial conferences. She has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Ontario Court of Appeal, and administrative tribunals.
Kiri is preferred counsel to LAWPRO and has provided advice and representation in professional negligence matters. Before joining Dolden Wallace Folick LLP, she practiced at a boutique insurance defence firm in Toronto, where she represented insurers and provided coverage opinions.
Recent Cases
- 1711811 Ontario Ltd. v. Buckley Insurance Brokers Ltd., 2025 ONCA 56 (CanLII)
Professional Affiliations
- Law Society of Ontario
Publications
- Tavern Liability: Last Call May Not Be the Last Word (co-authored with Andrew Sanfilippo), The Oatley McLeish Guide to Motor Vehicle Litigation, March 2016
- Jeff Berryman and Kiri McDermott-Berryman, “Rule 40 – Interlocutory Injunction or Mandatory Order,” in Civil Procedure and Practice in Ontario, Noel Semple (ed.), 2nd ed., 2022 CanLIIDocs 1027
Bar Admission
- Ontario, 2015
Education
- Juris Doctor, University of Windsor, 2014
- Bachelor of Applied Science (Electrical Engineering, Co-op), University of Windsor, 2011
