A JML founding partner, John spends most of his time as an arbitrator or mediator resolving commercial and construction disputes. He has been involved in resolving hundreds of disputes across Canada, including major projects involving transportation, telecommunications, hydro, and oil & gas. A leader of the BC construction bar, as counsel and neutral, John has long been included in Lexpert's Leading 500 Cross-Border Lawyers: A Guide to Doing Business in Canada. He has been Best Lawyers’ “Lawyer of the Year” for construction law in Canada, Doyle's Guide’s leader for construction law in BC, and one of Lexpert’s Most Frequently Recommended construction lawyers in BC. John is involved in the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and the Vancouver International Commercial Arbitration Centre, where he has been a member of the Application and Appellate panel. John has chaired many legal conferences on commercial litigation and alternative dispute resolution, was one of the original authors of the BC's Builder’s Liens Practice Manual and taught the builder’s lien course to almost every Professional Legal Training Course class for 25 years.
