Crys Masterson, BA, JD
Barrister, Solicitor & Notary Public
Professional Profile
After receiving an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Rhetoric and Professional Writing from the University of Waterloo, Crys began her legal education at the University of Oklahoma, where she served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Indian Law Review. Upon receiving her Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma in 2011 and returning home to Ontario, she attended the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and received her Certificate of Qualification from the National Committee of Accreditation in 2012. Crys was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 2013. Crys’s primary areas of practice are real estate law and wills & estates.
Extracurriculars
Although Crys’s legal name is Crystal, she goes by Crys professionally, as she understands it’s difficult for clients to trust a lawyer with a stripper name (thanks, mom and dad). Crys enjoys spending time with her partner and three young children, attending any concert that comes to town, watching all variations of the Bachelor franchise, cheering for the Raptors (even when they’re losing), making the world’s best mezcal-based cocktails, and refusing to wear pants without an elastic waist (because self-care).
Honours & Awards
Burlington Post Readers’ Choice Award: Best Lawyer (various years)
Burlington Post Readers’ Choice Award: Best Real Estate Lawyer (various years)
Burlington Post Readers’ Choice Award: Best Law Firm (various years)
Burlington Post Readers’ Choice Award: Best Real Estate Law Firm (various years)
National Order of Scribes (2011 inductee)
Academic Achievement Award: Wills & Trusts
Academic Achievement Award: Advanced Trusts
Academic Achievement Award: Real Estate Transactions
Law Review Award: Outstanding Article
Dean’s Honour Roll
Publications
Wind-Energy Ventures in Indian Country: Fashioning a Functional Paradigm, 34 Am. Indian L. Rev. 317 (2009-2010)
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Karen Morimoto, BA, JD
Barrister, Solicitor & Notary Public
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Karen holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in Politics, from Queen’s University and a Law Clerk diploma from Fleming College. She obtained her Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall in 2010. While at Osgoode, Karen received specialized training in dispute mediation and served as executive assistant to the Osgoode Innocence Project. Karen was called to the Bar in 2011. Karen practices civil litigation, corporate law, wills & estates, and real estate law.
Extracurriculars
Karen used to have real hobbies, such as practicing Brazillian Jiu-Jitsu, running, yoga, and visual arts. After becoming a mother and a lawyer, Karen’s hobbies have become more indoorsy and nocturnal, such as online shopping in the middle of the night while eating sour patch kids and drinking beer (which she insists taste good together) and attempting to break all world records for human chattiness. Like Crys(tal), she laments her legal first name in the modern age.
Honours & Awards
Governor General’s Academic Medal
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Nikki Lewis, BA, JD
Barrister, Solicitor & Notary Public
Professional Profile
Nikki attended the University of Ottawa, where she received her Bachelor of Arts in Criminology, followed by her Juris Doctor. Nikki began her legal career in Ottawa, practicing criminal law and child protection matters. After returning home to Burlington, Nikki joined Masterson Law in 2022 to practice civil litigation, wills & estates, and real estate law.
Extracurriculars
Nikki spends her free time hanging out with her several pet rats. Occasionally, our office will act on real estate matters with rodent feces or other pest-control concerns. Despite being a consummate professional, we know Nikki is secretly rooting for the rodents.
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Klaudia Grabkowska, BSc, JD
Barrister, Solicitor & Notary Public
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Klaudia received her Bachelor of Science, with a specialty in Biology, from the University of Toronto’s Mississauga campus, where her overprotective parents could keep their only child close and fed. For law school, Klaudia left the nest for the first time, pursuing her Juris Doctor at the University of Windsor. Klaudia joined Masterson Law in 2024 to practice whatever the other lawyers happen to throw at her on any given day.
Extracurriculars
Klaudia enjoys dressing above the office dress code, as well as persuading everyone that she’s not the female Doogie Howser and did indeed attend school on a normal schedule, despite that her face suggests otherwise. She delights clients with her friendly demeanor and dazzles her colleagues by organizing the sparkling water in the fridge by flavour.
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Jeanine Garlow
Office Manager
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Jeanine holds a Bachelor of Arts from McMaster University, as well as a Human Resources Post Diploma from Humber College. Jeanine often speaks in the third person and spends her free time crocheting, despite that she is indeed well below retirement age.
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Janice Otterstein
Law Clerk
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With decades of experience as an estates, corporate, and litigation clerk, Janice joined Masterson Law to do anything but real estate. Janice is a GILF who loves tequila, travelling, and being told what to do by her grandchildren (all of whom she would sell for the right bottle of tequila).
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Linda De Canhas
Law Clerk
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With over forty years’ experience as a real estate law clerk, Linda was the first clerk to join Masterson Law. Linda drinks several litres of coffee each day and zero water, yet always wonders why she has regular migraines. She is fluent in Portuguese, loves DIY home projects, and eats from the children’s menu at restaurants (her husband still cuts the crusts off her sandwiches for lunch).
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Gina Kostopoulos
Law Clerk
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Gina grew up in a real estate brokerage and became a real estate law clerk before she was eligible to vote. A mother of triplets, Gina works long hours at the office to escape life as her teenagers’ full-time chef and maid. She enjoys speaking loudly, swearing at technology, being averse to change, and reminding everyone she’s Greek.
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Lisa Campbell
Law Clerk
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Lisa has over thirty years’ experience as a real estate law clerk. She enjoys travelling, being an empty nester, and using her unconscious facial expressions to show everyone how she feels at all times.
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Sandy Petty
Law Clerk
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Sandy is Janice’s long-time BFF and threatened to quit when she learned their bios were not side by side. She enjoys pool time with her grandchildren, travelling, and rolling her eyes at her husband (who, nearing retirement age, had the outline of abdominal muscles tattooed on his dad bod).
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Bri Lyons
Law Clerk
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Bri enjoys hot girl walks (don’t worry – anyone at the office born before 1990 had to look it up too), putting oat milk in her caffeinated beverages (like a good millenial), and giving Crys an outlet to recap what’s happening on the Bachelor.
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Hayleigh Masterson
Intake Clerk
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Hayleigh likes horses more than people and believes in nepotism.
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Sarah Camm
Conveyancer
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Sarah received her Bachelor of Arts in Classical Studies and her Masters of Library and Information Sciences from the University of Western Ontario. Known as the firm’s title search guru, Sarah is brought in as the “big guns” when complex title issues arise. Sarah works remotely in the middle of nowhere and enjoys reading, knitting, embroidery, long walks on the beach – oops, wrong profile.
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Heather McGhee
Office Administrator
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After many years in the medical field, Heather joined Masterson Law to help Jeanine manage the lawyers (think herding cats or taming toddlers – but worse). Speaking of cats, Heather’s cat, Meredith, is her child and the love of her life.
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Basher Garlow
Junior Office Manager
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Basher is a shih tzu who has won employee of the month since his birth (despite only pooping in Crys’s office to assert his dominance).