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Doug F. Robinson graduated from the University of British Columbia with combined B.Comm and L.L. B. degrees in 1972. He has been a member of the Bar of British Columbia since 1973.

Doug has been counsel in cases at all levels in the courts of British Columbia and the Supreme Court of Canada. Doug has also acted as counsel before various administrative tribunals, including the National Energy Board, the B.C. Utilities Commission, the B.C. Labour Relations Board, and disciplinary hearing before professional societies.

Doug has served as an arbitrator and a mediator. He trained as a mediator at Harvard Law School Mediation Course in June 1994 and subsequently the Advanced Mediation Course at Simon Fraser University.
Doug sits on the Advisory panel to the British Columbia Dispute Resolution Office and is a director of the B.C. Mediator Roster Society that is overseeing mediation and mediators in the Province of British Columbia.

Doug is also Chairman of the Board of a newly created Canadian Forum on Civil Justice situated at the University of Alberta. This National forum arose as a result of the recommendations of the Canadian Bar Association's System of Civil Justice Task Force on which Doug served as Chair of the B.C. delegation and subsequently, as a member of the National Implementation Committee of the Task Force.The Task Force recommended the use of mediation in resolving legal disputes. Doug is also a Director of the B.C. Institutes of Law Reform. Active in the Canadian Bar Association, he served on the Executive of the B.C. Branch of President in 1998/99. He is also a member of several legal associations.

Doug has litigated and lectured extensively on a wide range of practice areas including corporate litigation, construction law, law of damages, defamation, competition law, and estate litigation. Doug is one of the founding Fellows inducted into the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers, which recognizes leading construction lawyers in Canada. While in private practice as a barrister he was recognized by LEXPERT as one of the leaders in his area of specialty, construction and product liability litigation.

Doug was the lead counsel for the successful defense of Privest v. Foundation Company & W.R. Grace, et al the first products liability case in Canada dealing with asbestos-containing products and one of the most complex legal cases in B.C. history. He was also counsel on one of the first cases to be tried in B.C. under the Waste Management Act.

Doug was a senior litigation partner at Lawson Lundell from June 1976 until September 2000, at which time he resigned to begin providing full-time mediation and arbitration services. He has mediated all types of civil and commercial matters, general insurance issues, partnership dissolution, construction disputes, environmental matters, class actions, and estate matters.

 

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