Background
Pattison, Robert B. was born on November 10, 1963 in Toronto.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Robert B. Pattison
Edit ProfileEducation
University of Western Ontario (Bachelor of Arts, 1985). Osgoode Hall, York University (Bachelor of Laws, 1988).
Career
Worked at Borden & Elliot (Toronto, Ontario) specializing in General Practice. Banking and Finance; Corporate and Commercial including Securities, Mergers and Acquisitions, Arrangements and Reorganizations, Business Organizations and Competition and Marketing Law. International Business Law (including Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement matters).
Mining and Natural Resources.
Environmental Law; Expropriate Law. Municipal Law; Labour and Employment Law including Pensions and Employee Benefits.
Personal Services including Family Law, Wills, Estates and Trusts. Real Estate Financing, Development and Leasing.
Taxation (including Customs, Anti-dumping, Income and Federal and Provincial Sales Taxes).
Trial and Appellate Litigation before courts and administrative tribunals including Commercial, Criminal, Real Estate, Hospital and Medical Malpractice and Insurance Litigation (including Aviation, Casualty, Fire, Fidelity and Surety, General Liability, Motor Vehicle, Municipal, Professional Negligence, Errors and Omissions, Property and Personal Injury). Computer Technology, Intellectual Property, Biotechnology and Telecommunications. Admitted to the bar, 1990, Ontario.
Author, "Sheltering, Consolidating and Trial Together: The Construction Lien Action as a Class Action" (1996), 29 C.L.R. (3d) 214.
"Offers to Settle Under Rule 49: Cost Consequences," (1996) 39 C.P.C. (3d) 109. "Breach of Trust under The Construction Lien Acting," Construction: Anatomy of a Construction Dispute (CBAO Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 1994).
Director, Barrie Builders Association, 1992-1994. Teacher, Ontario Centre for Trial Advocacy.
Member: Canadian Bar Association - Ontario (Construction Section: Executive Member, 1991.
Company-legislative Coordinator, 1994. Consultant to Attorney General"s Committee on Trust Compliance under the Construction Lien Acting). History & Growth: The firm was founded in 1936 by Henry Borden, Queen's Counsel and Beverley V. Elliot, Queen's Counsel, two distinguished members of the Ontario bar, whose service in the firm is recognized in its name.
Today Borden & Elliot is one of the largest law firms in Canada.
There are over 200 lawyers practising in our offices in the Scotia Plaza in downtown Toronto and our York Region Office in Richmond Hill, Ontario.
Achievements
Membership
Member: Canadian Bar Association - Ontario (Construction Section: Executive Member, 1991. Company-legislative Coordinator, 1994. Consultant to Attorney General"s Committee on Trust Compliance under the Construction Lien Acting).
