Harvey J. Kirsh
Academic Qualifications:Undergraduate: B.A. (University of Toronto, 1967)
Law School: LL.B. (Osgoode Hall Law School, 1970)
Post-Graduate: LL.M. (Harvard Law School, 1971)
Professional Memberships:
Fellow, College of Commercial Arbitrators
Canadian College of Construction Lawyers, First President, Founding Fellow and Governor (since inception)
Fellow, American College of Construction Lawyers (2011 – )
Founding Member of the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society (TCAS) (since 2009)
Chartered Arbitrator (C.Arb.), ADR Institute of Canada (since 1984)
Neutral Arbitrator and Mediator, Kirsh Construction Arbitration Services Ltd.
Canadian Bar Association (former Chair (and other Executive positions)) of both National and Provincial Construction Law Sections)
The Advocates’ Society
County of York Law Association
Law Society of Upper Canada (since 1971)
Harvard Law School Club (Toronto)
Harvard Club of Toronto
Also allied profession member of numerous construction industry trade associations (e.g., Toronto Construction Association, Canadian Construction Association, Ontario Building Envelope Council (first Director), Consulting Engineers of Ontario, etc.)
Arbitration Experience:His most recent experience as an ADR neutral includes claims arising out of the construction of an international crude oil pipeline, a nickel processing plant in Newfoundland, a Maritime biomass co-generation facility, a Panamanian copper mine, a Virginia cement finish mill, a solar power project on agricultural lands, a Canadian armed forces base, sewage treatment plants in Halifax, a hospital in the Bronx, a brewery facility in the Maritimes, an oil refinery in Utah, a gold mine in northern Ontario, and a municipal water and sewage system in Brooklyn. He was also selected by NJ Transit and the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey to act as Chair of a Dispute Review Board, for both subsurface and surface contracts, relating to the construction of the $8.7 billion Mass Transit Tunnel from the suburbs of New Jersey to central Manhattan.
ADR Specialization:
Construction Law
Civil Litigation
Arbitration
Mediation
Firm:
Glaholt LLP
Address:
141 Adelaide Street West, Suite 800
Toronto ON M5H 3L5
Phone:
416-368-8280
Email:
hkirsh@glaholt.com
Website:
Website: Not listed.
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