Mediator Profile
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Andrew DiamondAndrew Diamond - ADR Chambers180 Duncan Mill Road 4th Floor Toronto, Ontario M3B 1Z6 (416) 362-8555 adr@adrchambers.com https://adrchambers.com/neutral/andrew-m-diamond/ |
| Degrees/Designations - | B.A., LL.B., MBA |
| Practice Areas - | Business/Commercial, Construction, Employment, Human Rights, Labour, Personal Injury and Real Estate |
| Practice Description - | Andrew is a leading, Toronto-based mediator and arbitrator with over 14 years’ experience as a third party neutral in the public and private sectors. Andrew’s mediation and arbitration practice focuses on: • employment law matters including, wrongful dismissal, harassment and discrimination claims, and workplace disputes; • tort litigation including auto accidents, accident benefit, product liability and slip and fall cases; and • commercial and construction cases including contracts, partnership disputes, construction lien litigation, insolvency related cases and claims officer appointments. Andrew is an arbitrator on the Canadian Transportation Agency List of Arbitrators and an approved facilitator for the Ontario Energy Board. He is a claims officer dealing with matters that fall under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act (CCAA) and other insolvency law matters for companies such as Nortel, Fraser Papers and Radio Shack. Andrew was a public sector adjudicator and mediator from 2005 to 2018 including 10 years with the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal between 2008 and 2018. He was the former Vice-Chair of the Ontario Licence Appeal Tribunal and the former Registrar in Bankruptcy, appointed by the Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Ontario. Prior to his public appointments, Andrew practiced law at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and Blake Cassels & Graydon LLP, focusing on insolvency and restructuring litigation, competition law, securities litigation and corporate commercial disputes. He has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario and a number of boards and tribunals, including the Ontario Labour Relations Board, the Ontario Municipal Board and the Assessment Review Board. Andrew lectures on bankruptcy, presents at conferences across Canada on insolvency law, and has published articles in the Employment and Labour Law Reporter, The Canadian Bankruptcy Reports and the Annual Review of Insolvency Law. He is a past member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators (SOAR), a past member of the Commercial List Users Group, and the Advocates’ Society. Andrew earned his LL.B. at Osgoode Hall Law School in 1989 and his M.B.A. with Distinction at Schulich School of Business in 2003. He has a B.A. from McGill University and is a member of the Law Society of Ontario. He was called to the Ontario Bar in 1991. |