Joseph R. Nuss, CM, QC, AdE, has been senior counsel at Woods LLP since 2009. A past judge of the Quebec Court of Appeal, he now acts as an independent arbitrator and mediator in matters of Canadian and international arbitration and mediation. He also acts as counsel and has been retained as an expert on Quebec law. He has been appointed claims officer to decide unresolved disputes between creditors and the debtor company in the restructuring and reorganization of the AbitibiBowater group of companies under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act and in the liquidation of Penson Financial Services Canada under the Canada Business Corporations Act. He has lectured on arbitration and mediation at national and international conferences and has delivered a paper titled “Public Policy invoked as a ground for contesting the enforcement of an arbitral award or for seeking its annulment” published in Dispute Resolution International (Vol. 7, No. 2). He is one of the authors of the chapter on arbitration in the annual LegisPratique: Code de procédure civile annoté. He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a member of the CBA, IBA, LCIA, ICDR panel of arbitrators, and Canadian Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Committee. He is fluently bilingual in English and French.
