Lorenzo Bermudez Patino

Lorenzo now provides legal services in Ontario as a licensed paralegal. He has focused primarily on the Small Claims Court and the Landlord and Tenant Board, but has already taken on cases in other venues and tribunals such as the Ontario Dispute Adjudication for Construction Contracts process. Lorenzo was the co-recipient of the 2024 County of Carleton Law Association Paralegal Award and is the current Chair for the Paralegal Program Advisory Board at Algonquin College.

Prior to entering the legal field, Lorenzo pursued his PhD at the University of Ottawa in Linguistics, with a specialization in Forensic Linguistics, for which he obtained a Master of Arts from Cardiff University (U.K.) in 2005. Lorenzo also has a degree in Communication Studies from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, California, which he obtained in 2003.

In his free time, Lorenzo is a semi-professional stand-up comedian who has performed at several venues in Ottawa, Montreal, and the surrounding area. He has been a semi-finalist in numerous comedy competitions and was a finalist in Ottawa’s Cracking up the Capital contest in 2018, Yuk Yuk’s Summer Comedy Competition in 2021, and the runner-up in the Absolute Comedy Prove You’re a Comic Competition in 2023.