Born and raised in Toronto and married with children. Mr. Weltman is a graduate of the law school of the University of Western Ontario in London where he obtained his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1981.

He articled for a year in the personal injury firm of Sommers & Roth. After graduating the Bar Admission programme at Osgoode Hall in Toronto, he was called to the Ontario Bar in 1983. He is a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada and has been a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Lawyer Referral Service.

Mr. Weltman was the founding member of the partnership, Kushner & Weltman, where he specialized in personal injury cases but obtained a breadth of knowledge and experience in other areas of law including criminal, family, wills and estates, real estate and business law.