Ben founded the Ben Prichard Professional Corporation in Parry Sound, Ontario, in 2014.
Ben is an avid vegetable gardener, cook, sauna enthusiast, outdoorsman, and adorer of fantasy fiction.
Ben completed his undergraduate degree at Trent University in Peterborough — with a joint-major in History and Cultural Anthropology, graduating with honours — and went on to complete a Master of Arts in Cultural Anthropology at York University in Toronto. His Master's thesis investigated the then-emerging problem of prescription opiate abuse in rural Ontario.
He earned his Juris Doctor at the University of Western Ontario, where he was awarded the Sherrard Kuzz LLP Employment and Labour Law Research Fellowship and the Robert White International Labour Law Internship. The internship led to a position with the International Labour Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, in the summer of 2011. After law school Ben articled with Sack Goldblatt Mitchell (now Goldblatt Partners), an acclaimed union-side labour and employment firm in Toronto.
In 2014 Ben moved back to his hometown of Parry Sound. In his early career he still yearned for the fast pace and excitement of the courtroom, so he struck out on his own and built a busy criminal defence practice, with several reported decisions and successful Charter challenges to his name. After having proved everything he felt he needed to prove in the courtroom — and, probably more importantly, after having his three children — his priorities changed, and in 2018 his practice began to evolve into a full time cottage country solicitor practice.
Today Ben still appears in the Superior Court of Justice when the right civil fact set calls to him, which generally means litigation files directly related to his solicitor practice — enforcement of rights of way, forced sales of property, construction liens, and the occasional estate matter. He also spends some time in the courtroom sitting as a Deputy Judge of the Small Claims Court.
That said, 95% of Ben's time today is spent sitting at his desk diligently working on cottage country solicitor work. This is a burden and specialty he greatly enjoys. With a fresh coffee in hand and a copy of Russell on Roads at his desk, Ben can help you solve almost any issue that comes up around title to your slice of paradise in cottage country.