Overview

Don has extensive experience on significant construction projects across Canada, the US, and beyond.
Don has provided advice to Contractors and Owners in numerous construction mega projects. These include power projects (oil and gas, solar, wind, nuclear and carbon capture) and 100 public-private (P3) infrastructure projects (hospitals, penitentiaries, water treatment and transportation) throughout Canada, the United States and Australia. In addition, he has appeared at all levels of the Courts of Alberta and the Northwest Territories and in mediations and arbitrations as counsel and as mediator / arbitrator.
He taught the Construction Law Course at the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta between 2002 and 2015. He is currently on the Board of Directors of a US public company and is a Fellow and former Governor of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers.
Lexpert special edition of Canada’s Leading Infrastructure Lawyers (2025,2026)
Recognized as a Leading Practitioner in the area of Construction & Infrastructure Law by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (2025, 2026)
The Best Lawyers™ in Canada: Construction Law, Defamation and Media Law (2006 - 2026)
Best Lawyers Construction Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Edmonton (2012, 2018, 2021, 2025)
Recognized as a Leading Practitioner in the area of Construction &; Infrastructure Law by the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory (2024)
Lexpert Special Edition on Canada’s Leading Infrastructure Lawyers (2014 - 2023)
Recognized in the Lexpert / ROB Special Edition on Canada’s Leading Infrastructure Lawyers (2018, 2019)

Practice Areas

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Construction Law
• Insurance Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1988 (AB); 2013 (ON)