Best Lawyers in Canada for Construction Law
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A full understanding of the complex issues in the construction, energy, and resource industries is critical to having a positive outcome in lawsuits, arbitrations, and negotiations. Corbin Devlin’s expertise brings everything needed to the table – technical knowledge, legal strategy, and practical business sense. Corbin balances all the intricacies – the people, the financial, and the technical – of the construction industry. He represents construction owners, general ...
Shane is an experienced litigator with a practice focused on real estate and commercial business disputes. He regularly advises senior executives, in-house counsel, real estate development companies, investors, family-owned businesses and individuals on dispute-avoidance strategies. When issues cannot be resolved through negotiation, Shane delivers effective representation at all levels of court, before administrative tribunals and in mediations and arbitrations. “My clients focus on ma...
Rebecca Morse is a Partner in Vancouver, British Columbia, with Farris LLP. Her practice includes Construction Law, Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Insolvency and Financial Restructuring Law, and Trusts and Estates. She advises clients on a broad range of civil litigation matters, including contractual disputes, construction disputes, insolvency and restructuring proceedings, estate and trust disputes, and international trade matters. Rebecca is recognized by The Best Lawyers in Canada f...
Megan Marrie is recognized by Best Lawyers in Construction Law. Megan, who practices law at Shibley Righton LLP in Toronto, Ontario, has been recognized since 2022. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Megan is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area. Megan attended Dalhousie University, earning a Bachler of Commerce (Co-op), with Distinction, and worked in marketing for a geographic information sys...
Tom Whitby’s construction litigation practice is focused primarily in the area of professional negligence. In over 25 years at Miller Thomson, Tom has litigated on behalf of architects and engineers in all types of construction claims including fee disputes, bidding and tendering claims, architectural and engineering design negligence claims, construction deficiency claims, sustainable design claims, P3 claims, and delay claims. Tom acts for general contractors in litigation involving c...
Isabel Pouliot primarily practices civil and commercial litigation, more specifically in the field of construction law. She joined BCF in 2016, after practising with a boutique firm and completing her articling at a national law firm. Isabel graduated from Université Laval, where she acted as a volunteer for various legal organizations and was featured on the Faculty’s Honour Roll as a result of her excellent academic performance. During her academic career, she also studied at t...
Marie-Louise Delisle is a partner at Woods LLP, a leading Montreal litigation boutique. She has near twenty years of experience in the fields of commercial and civil litigation. She is involved in several major cases, more specifically in matters relating to securities, class actions, and professional liability, including that of accountants and stockbrokers. She is recognized as having a vast trial experience in addition to handling countless matters relating to injunctions, including Anton ...
Adam practices commercial and general insurance defence litigation, with an emphasis on errors and omissions, medical malpractice, highways liability, products liability and coverage disputes. He was first called to the Bar in New Zealand, and upon admission practiced with a leading New Zealand litigation firm, focusing on insurance defence. Adam practiced there for approximately 3 years, before leaving to travel in 1997. After his travels, Adam practiced in London, England with a leading ins...
Max R. Bernard focuses his practice on commercial litigation, construction law, commercial real estate, securities brokerage and banking. He has handled various types of commercial and contractual claims and shareholder remedies. Additionally, he has acted for securities brokers and negotiated construction contracts, including agreements with professional consultants. His expertise in real estate law extends to development, financing, work-outs, management and leasing. In the banking field, h...
Associé directeur de la région du Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Me Bergeron exerce en droit commercial et en litige, plus précisément en droit de la construction. Me Bergeron est membre Fellow de la Construction Lawyers Society of America. Il a été reconnu LExpert en 2023 et Best Lawyer du Canada depuis 2024. Me Bergeron agit maintenant principalement comme conseiller stratégique auprès de sa clientèle, composée d’en...
Tim Mavko is Senior Counsel at Reynolds Mirth, where he focuses on commercial dispute resolution and construction law. A Fellow of both the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers and the Construction Law Society of America, Tim is regularly recognized in The Best Lawyers in Canada and Lexpert for his expertise and excellence. Dispute Resolution With decades of experience in commercial litigation, Tim delivers incisive advice on the strategy and tactics needed to successfully resolve commerc...
Andrea Lee is certified as a Specialist in Construction Law by the Law Society of Ontario. She is a Fellow of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers and Past Chair of the Ontario Bar Association, Construction and Infrastructure Section Executive. Andrea obtained her Bachelor of Architecture from the University of Toronto and a Bachelor of Law from Queen’s University. She has practiced exclusively in construction law since her call to the bar in 2006. She acts for owners, contracto...
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Mr. Halt graduated as the gold medal recipient from the University of Saskatchewan in 1986 and in 1988-89 he had the honour of serving as a law clerk to Madam Justice Bertha Wilson of the Supreme Court of Canada. Following his clerkship, Mr. Halt relocated to Calgary and has since practised civil litigation, including insurance with an emphasis on professional liability, corporate commercial litigation, securities litigation, franchise litigation, insolvency, construc...
Justine Mageau is a lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice areas of Administrative and Public Law, Construction Law and Labour and Employment Law. Justine practices law in Edmonton, Alberta Best Lawyers has recognized Justine Mageau since 2024. The Best Lawyers recognition is based on a peer-review survey of lawyers in the same geographic region and legal practice area. The recognition reflects the professional regard in which Justine Mageau is held by other lawyers.
Stuart Hankinson, K.C. is a Partner in the Construction and Infrastructure Practice Group at Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel LLP. His practice is focused on the resolution of complex construction, commercial and insurance disputes. He has moderated many conflicts. He is an arbitrator and has been a sole Dispute Adjudication Board (DAB)/Dispute Resolution Board (DRB) member. He acts for owners, developers, Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) and Engineering, Procurement, and Cons...
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