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Contact Information

Phone: 902.753.3318

lmacintosh@macmacmac.ns.ca

Leisa MacIntosh

Leisa MacIntosh welcomes clients who seek a better way to resolve family conflict.  Leisa knows the pitfalls, bruises, and legal war stories that accompany traditional family law practice.  She has spent the last several years examining family law delivery models from other jurisdictions across Canada, the United States, and commonwealth countries.  She became determined to create a better legal services model for her family law clients.  After a decade of battling in the family law trenches, she now offers a better way for individuals and families to deal with the financial and emotional pain which accompanies marriage breakdown.

Leisa MacIntosh is proud of the innovative services available at the Family Centre for Conflict Resolution at Mac, Mac & Mac.  She has recalibrated and retooled her traditional litigation skills.  Leisa's clients are able to choose from an array of problem solving tools which will bring separating couples to a new way of functioning while avoiding the excessive financial, emotional and time consuming pain that too often accompanies traditional divorce and custody litigation.

Leisa's advocacy skills are bolstered by a collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to legal and social problem solving.  Her integration of legal trends and social science provide a modern approach that best suits the needs of the client.

Leisa MacIntosh is the third generation of MacIntosh lawyers at Mac, Mac & Mac.  Born and raised in New Glasgow, she attended King's College in Halifax for an Honours Degree in Contemporary Studies.  A year studying at the Sorbonne in Paris broadened her perspective on the complexities of human interaction.

She next took her law degree from UNB Law School, supplemented by legal studies at University of Queensland Law School in Brisbane, Australia.  After a brief stint as a Health Law Consultant for the Ontario Ministry of Health and an offer to work with the Federal Court of Appeal in Ottawa, she decided that the fast track of big city life did not hold the lifestyle allure of her native Pictou County.  For the last decade, Leisa has been practising family law at Mac, Mac & Mac, with emphasis on the care and custody of children.