Lawyer Profile
Tamryn Jacobson
Toronto, Ontario
Overview
Tamryn Jacobson is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group at Goodmans. Her practice focuses on complex commercial arbitration and litigation. In addition to representing clients in active disputes, Tamryn provides advice to clients in assessing litigation risk with a view to avoiding litigation and works to find business solutions to complicated legal issues.
She has significant experience with both international (ad hoc, ICC, LCIA, ICDR, VanIAC, UNCITRAL) and domestic arbitration, dealing with commercial disputes covering a broad range of industries, including construction, mining, banking/finance, technology, retail, hospitality and clean technology. Tamryn has also appeared before all levels of court in Ontario.
Tamryn has been recognized by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for commercial arbitration and corporate commercial litigation, by Best Lawyers in Canada for alternative dispute resolution, corporate and commercial litigation and construction law, by Benchmark Litigation Canada and by The Legal 500 Canada. She has been featured in the Lexpert Special Edition: Litigation and the Lexpert Special Edition: Infrastructure. Tamryn was honored as one of Lexpert’s Rising Stars: Leading Lawyers Under 40 in 2023 and included in the 2024 and 2023 editions of Benchmark Litigation’s 40 & Under List – Canada.
Tamryn currently serves as a board member of the Toronto Lawyers Association and a member of the Ontario Bar Association’s Alternative Dispute Resolution Executive Board. She also sits on Practical Law Canada’s Corporate & Commercial Litigation Advisory Board. She previously was a member of The Advocates’ Society Arbitration and Mediation Practice Group, serving as chair 2022-2023.
Tamryn has an active pro bono practice. She has been involved with Pro Bono Ontario (PBO) for over a decade, acting as duty counsel for low-income litigants at the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, as well as providing summary legal advice to low-income Ontarians through PBO’s Free Legal Advice Hotline. She also served as a director of the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT) for 7 years, including as the chair of ACT’s Leadership and Governance Committee.
She co-authored the Canadian chapter of Global Legal Insights’ International Arbitration, 2nd to 7th editions, and writes and speaks frequently on arbitration and litigation topics.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 2009 (ON)