Stephanie Fong is a lawyer at Rayman Harris LLP. Stephanie maintains a broad civil and commercial litigation practice and a developing expropriation law practice. 

She has experience advising individuals, businesses, and organizations in a wide range of matters including complex business and contract disputes, real property, tort law, constitutional law, and administrative law. Stephanie has appeared as counsel before the Ontario Land Tribunal, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Divisional Court, the Commercial List, and the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal.

Prior to joining Rayman Harris, Stephanie served clients at a leading litigation firm in Toronto and at one of Canada’s oldest law firms after clerking for the Honourable Justice Henry S. Brown at the Federal Court of Canada. During her clerkship, Stephanie competed as an Oral Finalist in the annual Exchequer Cup before the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal and won the prize of Best Respondent’s Factum with her team.

Stephanie holds dual Canadian and American law degrees from the Universities of Windsor and Detroit Mercy, graduating with magna cum laude honours and inducted into the Justice Frank Murphy Honour Society for her academic achievement and contributions to the law school community.

As a law student, Stephanie gained invaluable exposure to the judicial process through interning for judges at the Michigan Court of Appeals and the Ontario Court of Justice. In parallel, Stephanie developed her legal writing and research skills through copy editing for the Canadian Bar Review—a legal journal often cited by the Supreme Court of Canada—under the supervision of Dean Christopher Waters (as he then was) and Professor David Tanovich, and as Teaching Assistant for Professor Cara Cunningham Warren in Legal Writing and Research. She also volunteered at Community Legal Aid.

Stephanie received Book Awards for obtaining the top mark in Legal Writing and Research; the International Intellectual Property Clinic; and the Professional Responsibility Seminar (with a focus on technology competency and artificial intelligence legal tools). She also received the top mark in The Law of Emerging Mobility Technologies & Autonomous Vehicles.

Stephanie was awarded two fellowships—the Canadian Windsor Law Alumni Social Justice Fellowship and the American Voice for Justice Public Interest Fellowship—which enabled her to assist on human-trafficking casework with International Justice Mission’s field office in South Asia. She is also the recipient of the Women’s Law Association of Ontario’s Avril Farlam Advocacy Award, several UDM Dean’s scholarships, the Lysaght & Stewart Scholar Award, and the Canadian & American Dual JD Program Award, among other awards.

Stephanie received her BA in History from the University of Waterloo. There, she founded an anti-human-trafficking club and received the University’s Club President of the Term Award for her leadership and service to the community.