Front Lines

Three’s Company! PHD Law Firm Now Open

A trio of University of Windsor law school graduates have joined forces and opened a new practice called PHD Law working from an office situated at 2109 Ottawa Street, Suite 200.

Alexa Posliff, who also holds a law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and a Master of Laws from

Northwestern University Pritzker School

of Law in Chicago; Armando D’Alessandro, who also has a law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, and Mason Herberholz, opened their new practice at the beginning of January.

Their new business name — PHD Law — is a play on the first initials of the last names of the three lawyers. All three had previously worked together at Mousseau DeLuca McPherson Prince LLP.

“We always worked well together and we thought if not now, then when, so here we are,” says Posliff, who graduated from the University of Windsor a couple of years ahead of her colleagues. “We all wanted to be our own bosses and it’s very exciting.”

The three founding partners offer a wide range of practice areas, including criminal and civil litigation, contracts, wills, estates, commercial and residential landlord-tenant disputes, real estate, labour and employment law, municipal law, and legal issues involving human rights.

“We’re a full-service firm with the exception of family and immigration law issues,” explains Posliff whose father Ed Posliff recently retired from Mousseau DeLuca McPherson Prince after a long career. “I remember my dad representing the Windsor Star on some story publishing issues so I caught the bug pretty early.”

For now, the three partners are meeting with clients by appointment only and

The acronym PHD represents Windsor’s newest law firm, Posliff, Herberholz, D’Alessandro, LLP. The firm’s founding partners from left are: Alexa Posliff. B.A. (Spec. Hons.) J.D (Canada), J.D. (U.S.)*, L.L.M. (*Licensed in the State of N.Y.); Mason Herberholz, B.A. (Hons.), J.D. (Canada); and Armando D’Alessandro, B.A. (Hons.), J.D. (Canada), J.D. (U.S.). The three lawyers are young rising stars who are destined to make outstanding contributions in their careers and to the City of Windsor. Photo by Rod Denis.

conduct the remainder of their meetings virtually, with the aid of Internet technology.

“We’re fortunate in that we are all pretty tech savvy, but it’s been a learning curve for all of us,” Posliff comments.

PHD Law is located in the Market Square building at the intersection of Ottawa Street and Walker Road.

“It’s a great location, there’s plenty of parking and our building is fully accessible,” she adds.

All three are active in the community outside their profession with Posliff acting as President of the Windsor Women

Working With Immigrant Women

Board of Directors; Herberholz a board member with Windsor-Essex Brokerage for Personal Supports, an organization working with people with developmental disabilities, and D’Alessandro volunteers for Windsor Lawyers Feed the Hungry at the Downtown Mission of Windsor and is also a lawyer supervisor for Pro Bono Students Canada.

For more information on the firm, visit their website: phdlaw.ca.

FRONTLINES Great Balls Of Fire!

New Hot Gourmet Sub Sandwich Franchise Opens In Windsor

Firehouse Subs has planted roots in Windsor with the grand opening of a location at 3065 Howard Avenue, under the ownership of franchisee owner Javed Qadree.

Located across from Devonshire Mall, this is the second restaurant for Qadree, who opened his first restaurant in Sarnia in 2020. It is also the 49th Canadian location for the award-winning fast casual restaurant chain, which opened its first Ontario location in 2015.

Firehouse Subs serves premium meats and cheeses steamed and piled high on a toasted sub roll, served “Fully Involved” (registered trademark) with fresh produce and condiments.

“I am excited to provide a new community of guests with Firehouse Subs’ hearty and flavourful subs and heartfelt service,” says Qadree of his location that opened mid-December 2021. “I’m also excited to support Windsor’s hometown heroes and look forward to getting to know my guests on a personal level. Firehouse Subs is like a family and I take great pride in welcoming the Windsor community into the Firehouse Subs family.”

Qadree is dedicated to continuing Firehouse Subs’ commitment to helping public safety organizations through Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation of Canada, which has granted more than $1.5 million to hometown heroes throughout Ontario. Recently, the Foundation granted the Windsor Volunteer Fire Department $25,500 for a Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus gear washer.

Founded by former firefighting brothers, the décor of the restaurants

Franchisee owner Javed Qadree and his wife Helia Goodarzi pose by a mural honouring Windsor as Ford City, inside their new Firehouse Subs restaurant on Howard Avenue. Photo courtesy of Firehouse Subs.

reflect the founding family’s decades of fire and police service through photos and equipment donated by local fire departments.

The Howard Avenue restaurant boasts a custom, hand-painted mural by Chief Mural Artist Joe Puskas that features a Windsor firefighter and fire truck, as well as a Model T Ford car, as Windsor is known as Ford City.

Since the opening of the first Firehouse Subs in 1994, Puskas and his team have painted more than 1,200 murals from his studio at the Firehouse Subs headquarters in Jacksonville, Florida.

To learn more about this franchise, view a menu and find a Firehouse in Canada or the U.S., check: FirehouseSubs.ca. Keep up to date with the Windsor location via: Instagram.com/firehousesubswindsor.