Arbitration Roundtable of Toronto
The Arbitration Roundtable of Toronto is made up of several litigators, academics, arbitrators, and mediators from the Greater Toronto Area. The group promotes arbitration as an alternative method of conflict resolution over litigation, especially in commercial suits. Members include commercial litigators from Toronto law firms including some of the Seven Sisters of Bay Street. Each member has experience and interest in promoting commercial Arbitration. The group dedicates its time to encouraging this form of Dispute resolution through seminars, papers, and talks.
History
Founded in summer 2004 when John Judge and William G. Horton talked about bringing several prominent ADR Chambers members together after noticing how well suited to arbitration Toronto representatives were during an ICC arbitration with counsel from Canada, France, Germany, and the United States.Arbitration
focuses on resolving conflicts outside of courthouse litigation. Parties defer to one or more mutually acceptable arbitrators who will come to the final decision. This mode of resolution has often been related to Alternative dispute resolution. In Canada groups and persons interested in or promoting ADR work with the .Associations
Members of The Arbitration Roundtable of Toronto are associated with international groups promoting arbitration including , , , , , , , and .Members
Members of the Roundtable belong to several major law firms, educational institutions, and private practices located in the Toronto area as well as abroad.| Members | Primary Association |
| Brian Casey | Baker McKenzie |
| William G. Horton | |
| John Judge | Stikeman Elliott |
| Barry Leon | |
| David McCutcheon | Fraser Milner Casgrain |
| Graeme Mew | |
| Randy Pepper | |
| Joel Richler | Blake, Cassels & Graydon |
| Donald E. Short | Fasken |
| Janet Walker | Osgoode Hall Law School |
| Robert Wisner | McMillan |
Brian Casey
Brian Casey is the managing partner at Baker McKenzie. His areas of practice include International arbitration, Domestic Arbitration, Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, Competition Law, Banking and Finance Litigation, and Professional negligence. Associations include ADR Chambers, The Advocates' Society, the Canadian Bar Association, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the International Bar Association, and the Law Society of Upper Canada.Casey has a BS in engineering from Carleton University as well as a LL.B from the University of Ottawa and a LL.M from York University in International Business Law.
The Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the leading 500 lawyers in Canada lists Brian Casey under international commercial arbitration and commercial litigation.
William G. Horton
William G. Horton practices as independent counsel working with a variety of top law firms in Toronto His areas of practice include business and corporate disputes, class action, competition offences, defamation, directors and officers liability, fiduciary duty and good faith obligations, fraud, injunctive remedies, insurance and reinsurance disputes, international banking disputes, lender liability, litigation arising from major insolvencies and reorganizations, professional liability, and shareholder disputes.Horton has a Bachelor of Laws from Osgoode Hall Law School, and a BA from Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Associations include ADR Chambers, the ADR Institute of Canada, the Advocates' Society, the American Bar Association, the British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre, the Canadian Bar Association, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the China International Economic Trade and Arbitration Commission, the International Chamber of Commerce, the ICDR, the International Bar Association, the International Law Association, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the NAFTA 2022 Committee, the Ontario Bar Association, Osgoode Hall Law School, and Vis Moot.
Best Lawyers in Canada 2009 recognized Horton for Alternative Dispute Resolution, Corporate & Commercial Litigation, Directors & Officer Liability, and International Arbitration. He is also listed in the 2008 Lexpert Directory, the 2008 Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Lexpert 2007: Leading US/Canada Cross Border Litigation Lawyers in Canada, The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers 2007, Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business 2006 and 2007, The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2006, Legal Media Group's The Best of the Best 2006, and PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook 2006.
John Judge
John Judge is a senior partner at Stikeman Elliott practising both corporate and commercial law and specializing in banking and insolvency disputes, insolvency matters, insurance and reinsurance claims, partnership and shareholder disputes, product liability, professional negligence, real estate and complex construction litigation, sale of goods, and share/asset acquisitions as well as technological disputes and trademark law Aside from his corporate and commercial work, Judge has also served as counsel in several cases regarding human rights for the Ontario Human Rights Commission and has worked on many international arbitrations through the International Chamber of Commerce in Paris.Judge earned his BA from the University of Toronto in 1972 and his LL.B from the same school in 1975 before gaining bar admission in 1977. He is a member and past director of the Advocates' Society, American Bar Association, Arbitration Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Canadian Bar Association, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, Computer Law Association, Information and Technology Law Association, Institute for Transnational Arbitration in Dallas, International Bar Association, London Court of International Arbitration, an instructor at the Osgoode Hall Intensive Trial Advocacy Program, and director of the Sopinka Cup Society.
Barry Leon
Barry Leon is a partner in the International Arbitration Group at Perley-Robertson, Hill & McDougall. He has more than 30 years of experience as counsel, acting on many complex and significant cases for a wide variety of clients and involving many different industries. His industry experience includes financial services, natural resources and energy, technology and intellectual property, manufacturing, construction and projects, and consumer products.He has been recognized several times as one of the leading lawyers in Toronto, specifically in Woodward White's Best Lawyers in Canada 2006, Lexpert/Thomson Canada's Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory 2006, Legal Media Group's Guide to the World's Leading Litigation Lawyers 2005, and "The Experts: Update on Cross-Border Litigation" in Canadian Lawyer in May 2005. Leon received his LL.B from the University of Toronto and his M.B.A from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.
In 2011, Leon was elected chair of the arbitration committee of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, the Canadian branch of the International Chamber of Commerce. In 2012, Leon joined Arbitration Place, a hearing centre that hosts and facilitates international and domestic arbitrations.
David McCutcheon
David McCutcheon is a partner at Fraser Milner Casgrain in Toronto practising commercial ADR, corporate commercial litigation, administrative law, real estate and construction law, and environmental counsel.He serves as a member of the National Partnership Board and the Ontario Office Management Board. In addition he is a Fellow and Past President of the , Past President of the , Past Vice-president of the ADR Institute of Canada and chair of the Rules Committee, an Arbitration Panel Member for the ADR Institute of Canada and ADR Institute of Ontario, Chartered Arbitrator on the roster of the ADR Institute of Canada Inc. and the , and a Member of the ICC Arbitration Panel.
Graeme Mew
Graeme Mew is a managing partner at Nicholl Paskell-Mede in Toronto. His practice includes all levels of advocacy in England, Wales, and Ontario for business disputes, civil and commercial litigation, contract and tort law, insurance law, liability of directors and officers, private international law, professional liability, public law, and sports law. As a dual citizen of Britain and Canada he works as a Barrister in England and Wales and a barrister and solicitor in Ontario as well as a mediator and arbitrator.Mew has his B.A. in law from Kingston University and was called to the Bar of England and Wales in 1982. He received his LL.B. from the University of Windsor in Ontario in 1986 and was on the Dean's Honour Roll. He was called to the Ontario Bar and admitted as a solicitor in Ontario in 1987 before being admitted pro hac vice by the District Court of the US Virgin Islands in 2003.
Graeme Mew's memberships include The Advocates' Society, the Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Ontario, the Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Association, the Canadian Bar Association, the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution as a CEDR Accredited Mediator, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, the Commonwealth Lawyers Association, the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple, the International Academy of Sportslaw Practitioners and Executives, the International Bar Association, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Medico-Legal Society of Toronto, the Metropolitan Toronto Lawyers' Association, and the Sports Lawyers Association. Graeme Mew is a subscriber of the American Arbitration Association and a Member Arbitrator at Arbitration Place, a hearing centre that hosts and facilitates international and domestic arbitrations.