Lawyer Profile
Carsten Jensen
Calgary, Alberta
Overview
Carsten Jensen is a founding partner of JSS Barristers and a former Managing Partner of the firm. His practice focuses exclusively on dispute resolution, with an emphasis on corporate & commercial litigation, including commercial class actions, oil & gas disputes, shareholder disputes, multi-party litigation and arbitrations.
Carsten has represented governments, airlines, major and independent energy sector firms, pipelines and utilities, and individuals. He acts for the Alberta Lawyers Indemnity Association in defence of professional negligence claims and on insurance coverage issues and is provincial counsel to the Canadian Medical Protective Association, providing assistance to physicians with professional negligence claims and complaints, and other medico-legal matters.
Carsten is a member of the Canadian and Calgary Bar Associations. Carsten is also a Fellow of the London, UK-based Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (FCIArb) and a Member of its Professional Conduct Committee (the PCC), which is concerned with the regulation of the professional conduct of Institute members and discipline matters.
In 1998, Carsten commenced a two-year leave of absence during which time he acted as senior legal officer and eventually team leader at the United Nations Compensation Commission (UNCC) in Geneva, Switzerland. The UNCC was established to process and resolve compensation claims arising from Iraq's invasion and occupation of Kuwait. During Carsten's first year with the UNCC, he worked on the Kuwait Oil Company claim for oil losses resulting from the Kuwait oil well fires. Carsten was responsible for overseeing the quantification of the amount of oil lost, with the assistance of reservoir engineering experts. This claim is possibly the largest single oil & gas loss ever resolved.
Subsequently, Carsten was responsible for overseeing development of a consistent method for resolving the thousands of individual business loss claims filed with the UNCC as a result of the war. The methodology which Carsten and his team developed was adopted by the UNCC panel responsible for these claims and has since been applied to thousands of similar claims. Carsten returned to JSS Barristers in the fall of 2000 to resume his civil litigation practice.
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1991 (AB); 2006 (AB)