Additional Publications:
- Co-Author, Planning Legislative Framework in Ontario Practice Guide, Ontario Professional Planners Institute, July 2025
Denise Baker is the Co-Managing Partner at WeirFoulds. Her practice focuses on municipal and land use planning issues and related litigation.
In addition to her role managing the firm, Denise’s provides advice on complex municipal and land use planning law issues, including Heritage Act and Development Charges Act matters to municipalities and land developers. Denise has appeared on numerous occasions before the Ontario Land Tribunal, and its predecessors, the Ontario Court of Justice and the Divisional Court. While litigation is sometimes a necessity, Denise also believes that mediation and negotiation can often more effectively resolve disputes between parties who are adverse in interest.
Denise is the co-chair of the first generation Cambridge Forum on Land Use Planning, is a past chair of the municipal law section of the Ontario Bar Association and speaks at numerous events held by the Law Society of Ontario, the Ontario Bar Association and the Ontario Professional Planners Institute. Denise current teaches the next generation of planners on the Role of the Expert Witness before the Ontario Land Tribunal and she previously taught planning law to both undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Waterloo.
Denise is a member of Lambda Alpha International (Simcoe Chapter) and is repeatedly recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada and in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in the field of municipal law, and ranked by Chambers Canada.
Denise has acted on:
Denise has acted on:
Denise Baker is the Co-Managing Partner at WeirFoulds. Her practice focuses on municipal and land use planning issues and related litigation.
In addition to her role managing the firm, Denise’s provides advice on complex municipal and land use planning law issues, including Heritage Act and Development Charges Act matters to municipalities and land developers. Denise has appeared on numerous occasions before the Ontario Land Tribunal, and its predecessors, the Ontario Court of Justice and the Divisional Court. While litigation is sometimes a necessity, Denise also believes that mediation and negotiation can often more effectively resolve disputes between parties who are adverse in interest.
Denise is the co-chair of the first generation Cambridge Forum on Land Use Planning, is a past chair of the municipal law section of the Ontario Bar Association and speaks at numerous events held by the Law Society of Ontario, the Ontario Bar Association and the Ontario Professional Planners Institute. Denise current teaches the next generation of planners on the Role of the Expert Witness before the Ontario Land Tribunal and she previously taught planning law to both undergraduate and graduate students at the University of Waterloo.
Denise is a member of Lambda Alpha International (Simcoe Chapter) and is repeatedly recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada and in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in the field of municipal law, and ranked by Chambers Canada.
Denise has acted on:
Denise has acted on: