Overview

Bruce is Partner and Co-Chair of the firm’s International Construction Projects and Surety Groups. He specializes in the resolution of construction and insurance claims, liens, surety bond claims, product liability issues, and architects’ and engineers’ errors and omissions issues. He advises clients on construction projects in Canada, the United States and overseas. In addition to his practice, he also acts as a mediator, arbitrator and facilitator helping to resolve construction industry disputes.
Together with his colleague Sharon Vogel, he played a leading role in helping the Ontario government modernize the province’s construction law through the introduction of the Construction Act. Among the changes to the legislation are the creation of a prompt payment regime and the introduction of a mandatory interim binding dispute resolution system. He was also retained as Counsel by the federal government of Canada to assist in the introduction of new legislation on prompt payment and adjudication, co-authoring the independent expert report Building a Federal Framework for Prompt Payment and Adjudication.
He has been certified as a specialist in construction law by the Law Society of Upper Canada. He is a Fellow of both the Canadian and American Colleges of Construction Lawyers, and past Co-Chair of the International Construction Projects Committee of the International Bar Association. He is also immediate past president of the International Academy of Construction Lawyers.

Practice Areas

• Construction Law
• Professional Malpractice
• Insurance Law
• Public Law
• Product Liability

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1983 (ON)