Some people change over time and mellow out with age. Yet others like Atty. William Gilmour of Brampton, Ontario is living proof that what the Chinese have said for centuries is true: “Tigers never change their stripes”. Although Bill no longer works for Prouse, Dash, and Crouch, nor does he still represent the dirty and brutal Peel Regional Police Department, those choices to terminate his services were not left up to Atty. William Gilmour. At least the RCMP gave him a choice – resign or be fired. His brief employment with the Toronto Police Department as an undercover narcotics officer is a bit blurry but fellow copper Detective Abraham “Chris” Bailey thinks that missing drugs from the evidence locker and Gilmour’s refusal to take a polygraph test were at the crux of his sudden career change. But Gilmour himself blames a DUI citation. At this point it no longer matters and we can all agree… that is ancient history. But sometimes a person’s background is important.
Fortunately, some considerate friends in HR at the Toronto PD “forgot” to mention Gilmour’s shortcomings to the RCMP investigator when Gilmour applied to go work with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. So Bill Gilmour managed to win a fresh start at the RCMP, but as a new mountie he was assigned to the Yukon and Northern Territories. But less than 2 years later he was discreetly given a choice to resign or be fired, and probably prosecuted. A veteran mountie colleague says Gilmour was drinking on the job when the “incident” took place in Yellow Knife. Gilmour insists he was sober when he shot an unarmed teen in the back. We don’t know if the boy lived or died because the case was sealed and the RCMP managed to get a gag order in the settlement with the parents.
“Justice is not about guilt or innocence my friend. It’s all about money and who can best confuse the shit out of the jury!” – Atty. William Gilmour (2002)
Once again, Bill Gilmour was looking for a new job and with his impressive gifts of gab and deceit, it seemed only natural that he become a lawyer. Off he went to law school (Queens) where he managed to graduate (second last in his class of 93) without getting into any more trouble. Upon graduating he got married and his wife Jeanne a registered nurse supported him while he learned the legal ropes and learned how to “trade cases” and their outcomes with the Crown. A plea guilty on the Smith case today would earn him a dismissal on the Doe case next month, and so on. Veteran lawyers call it “horse trading” and Bill made some great bargains for his clients who had the deepest pockets. The rest were told to plead guilty whether they were or not. Gilmour learned where to get all the boiler-plate motions on-line and lie about his many non-existent courtroom victories and learned the fine art of billing fraud.
Gilmour’s billing fraud was so creative it actually doubled what he should have legally earned and a buddy at Prouse, Dash, and Crouch got him hired with the promise of doubling the firm’s revenue. He kept his promise and the firm prospered – too much actually. After one astute client discovered he was being billed for non-existent work, research, and services. He demanded a refund from Gilmour who just ignored the client. That was a big mistake. That victim called in Revenue Canada who decided to audit the billing of the entire firm. The results were ugly but paying some very stiff fines and refunding over 50 clients helped Prouse Dash and Crouch avoid criminal prosecution for fraud. Yes, Gilmour was once again told to find a new gig. David Dash personally apologized to me, but in my case the damage was already done and irreversible. I lost much more than money because of Gilmour. I lost my home which he stole with perjury, and I lost my freedom for 3 year with false imprisonment, and I lost my family for years due to threats and an extortion he mounted against my young pregnant wife, after he deliberately sabotaged my case so I would be locked away in America and unable to sue him in Canada. https://ohiocourtroomcorruption.blogspot.com
Here you can see the written retainer agreement that Gilmour swore under oath did not exist, and it clearly bears his signature. He made the edits AFTER it was already signed by me – without my consent. Still he testified under oath that we had never had any written agreement as per the court transcripts. https://realscam.com/f12/truth-about-solicitor-william-gilmour-matter-court-record-he-committed-perjury-4564-post101412/#post101412 . Three very credible witnesses testified and submitted written statements that Gilmour admitted he charged me a flat rate fee, with a bonus if he was successful. Those statements can be read at the link below in the exhibits section.
Am I the only one who had legal problems with Gilmour? Not at all. A veteran Bencher at the Ontario Law Society and a University of Toronto Law professor told me that at least five Law Society complaints were filed against Gilmour between 1995 and 2005. Here’s the one I filed against him https://gilmourlawsocietycomplaint.wordpress.com. Before I learned of his drinking problem (multiple martinis starting with lunch) and how he was cheating me, we socialized a little bit and he often invited me to meet him at his “second office” which was a strip club on Dundas Street called “House of Lancaster”. More than once he asked me to pay for lap dances and other “services” that he claimed he would deduct from my legal bill. But it was not long after this that my wife and I realized he was doing far more harm than good in my case, and I had to find myself an honest lawyer, and luckily I did.
But then I caught Gilmour trying to secretly sell my confidential legal files behind my back for $50,000.00 after I had already paid him $30,000! https://forum.legaljunkies.com/forum/attorneys-courts-litigation/attorneys-and-legal-ethics/91394-solicitor-william-gilmour-caught-red-handed-selling-client-s-legal-filres-for-50-000
For those of you in need of a lawyer, beware of Atty. William Gilmour. He purports to be a jack of all trades lawyer ranging from criminal defense to civil litigation, to a labor law specialist, to a civil rights lawyer, to an extradition expert, etc. Truthfully he cannot do anything right in my case he even twice failed to show up for my court hearings without any advance notice to me or the court. Why? Well on one of his absences he himself was in jail after being arrested on August 14th, 2001 for assaulting a child in Brampton. His other absence was never explained to me, but one of his colleagues suggested he was hung over from one of his drinking sprees. To his credit, I must say that Bill Gilmour is a smooth-talker who could sell a shadow to a sober man on a moon-less night. If he was a used car salesman, he would have retired as a multi-millionaire ten years ago. Instead he remains a legal con artist. Sorry mom, I was bamboozled. If she were alive today she would surely say “I warned you to watch out for lawyers, they are like snakes in the grass – you won’t even notice them until one bites you in the ass”. Mother’s are seldom wrong eh?
Bill Gilmour’s favorite lawyer joke/riddle…
Q: “Whats the difference between a good lawyer and a great one?”
A: “A good lawyer knows the law, but a great one knows the judges!”
As for that Law Society complaint… Malcolm Heinz claimed he assigned an unnamed investigator to look into my complaint yet not one of my 19 eye-witnesses nor myself were ever contacted by anyone from the Law Society. The complaint was simply dismissed without any explanation. See: https://www.reddit.com/r/Canadian_Law/comments/58349y/why_cant_the_law_society_of_upper_canada_be_sued/
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