Education:

• 1965  -  B.Com.  - University of British Columbia.
  
• 1968 - LL.B (now J.D.)  - University of British Columbia.
  

Law career highlights:

• Called to bar in British Columbia, October 1, 1969.
  
• Appointed Federal Queen's Counsel in 1990.
  
• Awards from the British Columbia Dental Association, the College of Dental Surgeons of British Columbia, and the Canadian Dental Protective Association.
  

Academic experience:

• Retired Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia, Faculty of Law.
  

Professional associations:

• Retired member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
  
• Appointed as a Chartered Arbitrator (C.Arb.) in 1993. Retired in 2010.
  
• Appointed as a Chartered Mediator (C.Med.). Retired in 2010.
  
• Charter Member of the Arbitrators' Association of British Columbia.
  
• Retired member of the ADR Institute of Canada, Inc.
  
• Charter Member of the first Canadian Chapter of SPIDR (Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution) in Vancouver.
  
• Founding member of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Subsection of The Canadian Bar Association, British Columbia Branch.
  
• Trustee of the British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre (BCICAC), now retired.
  
• Member of the Panel of Distinguished Neutrals (CPR International and China Panel) of the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution, New York. Active participant at Annual General Conference.
  
• Member of The International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists.
  
  

Courses, workshops and symposiums:

• Completed the Advanced Commercial Mediation Course sponsored by the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, December 1993.
  
• Completed the course sponsored by the American Academy of Attorney-Mediators, Inc., Dallas, Texas.
  
• Delegate to the Symposium on Alternative Dispute Resolution in Canada, sponsored by The Canadian Bar Association's Continuing Legal Education Committee, March 11 and 12, 1994.
  
• Participant at the International Commercial Arbitration Workshop, April 28, 2000, Vancouver, B.C.
  
• Participant in a Canadian Bar Association Conference in Calgary, Alberta in May 2003 on International Commercial Arbitration and Energy Disputes - A Global Perspective.
  
• Participant at Global ADR: The New Reality 2010 annual meeting January 14-15,CPR , New York City.
  
• Participant at International Commercial Arbitration course and meeting , June 1-2 2010, Toronto.
  
• Frequent Lecturer at Dental study clubs.
  

Published articles:

• Legislation concerning Public Access to Private Roads - From the Point of View of a Forest Company, University of British Columbia Law Review, Vol. 3, number 1, March, 1967
  
• Rectification and the Bargaining Process, Continuing Legal Education of B.C., Labour Arbitration, June and July, 1981
  
• Rent Review Clauses - Subjective or Objective Test - The Advocate, Vol. 47, Part 6, November, 1989, page 95
  
• Arbitration of Rent Review Clauses in British Columbia - written for the Canadian Institute conference on Commercial Lease Defaults, held June 11th, 1991 and November 20th, 1991.
  
• Rent Review Arbitrations - C.L.E. Course - Commercial Leases - A Practical Analysis of Key Issues, June, 1993.
  
• Real Estate Litigation - 1994 - C.L.E. Course - Commercial Tenancy Disputes, December, 1994.
  
• Labour Arbitration - 1995 - C.L.E. Course - The Sunshine Coast Decision - Observations of what is expected of arbitrators and of the process, June 9, 1995.
  
• Commercial Leasing Annotated Precedents - 1996 - C.L.E. - Contributing author - Arbitration and Mediation.
  
• Real Estate Litigation - 1996 - C.L.E. Course - Real Estate Litigation - 1996 update - Arbitration and Mediation of Commercial Tenancy Disputes.
  
• Process: The Disciplinary Hearing - 1997 - Infonex - Regulation of Professionals and Disciplinary Hearings: Practical Course.
  
• Risk Management - 1997 - Risk Management for Dentists - December, 1997.
  
• Risk Management - 1998 - Risk Management for Dentists - February, 1998 - Canadian Dental Protective Association seminar.
  
• Process: The Disciplinary Hearing - Paper delivered to the Administrative Law Subsection of the Canadian Bar Association - March 1998.
  
• Risk Management for Medical Doctors - Paper delivered on November 26, 1999 to the B.C. College of Family Physicians.
  
• Contributing writer to Health Law in Canada, published by Butterworths Canada Ltd.
  
• Contract Disputes: Alternative Dispute Resolutions Some Observations, May 2000.
  
• Contributing writer to Dispute Resolution Journal, August-October 2000, published by the American Arbitration Association.
  
• Contributing writer to The Advocate - Vo. 59, Part 5, September 2001 - Contract Disputes and Alternative Dispute Resolution: Some Observations.
  
• Understanding Your Commercial Lease - The Dental Office - Paper delivered at Vancouver and District Dental Society's Mid-Winter meeting December 2002.
  
• The 10 Worst Things a Dentist Can Say or Do - Part 1 and Part 2, published concurrently in the March/April 2003 and May/June 2003 issues of the Communiqué.
  
• Contributor to CLE Commercial Leasing Manual.
  
• Contributor to "Drafting ADR and Arbitration Clauses for Commercial Contracts" by Wendy Earle Carswell.
  
• ADR Process Design - Mediation ... for Dentists in British Columbia, July/August 2006 issue in "Alternatives".
  
• "Sanctions for refusing to mediate means more work for ADR institutes", The Lawyers Weekly, June 16, 2006.