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For 40 years I have litigated, negotiated, mediated, arbitrated, and settled many complex disputes covering a very broad range of law and subject matters. I have been part of one of the strongest and most dynamic litigation and dispute resolution partnerships in the country. I am now focusing that experience and knowledge on my expanding mediation and arbitration practice.
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While I am best known in the fields of commercial disputes and medical, legal, and other professional liability, my experience extends to issues as diverse as banking, insolvency, real property, libel and slander, mining property, and tort and contract disputes. These varied areas provide a unique base of experience handling valuations and damage assessments, as well as alternative sophisticated remedies, all of which are important elements of mediation and arbitration practice.
I have been invited to mediate many cases in the Superior Court of Justice.
I have served as faculty for in-house ADR and negotiation training within McCarthy Tétrault LLP
My career and educational highlights include:
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LLB - Osgoode Hall Law School (2nd in class) 1965
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Litigation partner of McCarthy & McCarthy, now McCarthy Tétrault LLP, 1974-2005
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Called to the bar of Ontario (1967), Alberta (1982), and Turks and Caicos Islands (2003)
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Named a Queen’s Counsel, 1980
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Certified as a Specialist in Civil Litigation by the Law Society of Upper Canada at the inception of that designation
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Acted as leading counsel in all levels of the Superior Courts of Ontario and Alberta, the Federal Court and the Supreme Court of Canada and before various administrative tribunals and in complex arbitrations
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Served two 3 year terms as a director of the Advocates’ Society
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Attended courses given by the Advocates’ Society based on the Harvard method of dispute resolution
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Attended the Mediation Process course given by CDR Associates, Boulder Colorado, 1996
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Phone: (416) 250-5050
E-mail: btait@drs4adr.com
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