After three years spent as Special Assistant to the Solicitor General of Canada, he practised law in Ottawa for 20 years with the firm of Soloway, Wright. In November, 1988, he established his own firm, emphasizing the practice of civil litigation. He is a familiar figure in the courts of Ontario, where he has appeared frequently as a general civil litigation trial and appellate counsel. He also practices in the Federal Court of Canada and the Supreme Court of Canada. As well, he is a principal of an alternative dispute resolution firm, MDR Associates Conflict Resolution Inc.

He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1982, and was certified in 1988 by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a specialist in civil litigation. From 1992 to 2000, he was a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada's Civil Litigation Specialty Committee; and was later appointed by Convocation as a member of the panel of reviewers for the Law Society's competence and practice review program. He has served as President of the Harvard Law School Association of Ontario, and of the Harvard University Club of Ottawa; has been a Fellow since 1998 of the American College of Trial Lawyers; is a Past Director of the Advocates' Society (1997-2000); and is a member of the Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Ontario. He has taught company law and taxation at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa Law School, and has lectured on litigation topics to the Advocates' Society at Toronto, in addition to having been a frequent contributor to continuing education and bar admission programmes of the Law Society of Upper Canada (both in Ottawa and Toronto) and the County of Carleton Law Association. His publications include "Consumer Remedies", (1982) 60 Can. Bar Rev. 549; "A Trip Through Charterland", (1983) 31 Chitty's Law Journal 1, and several continuing education papers on a variety of topics, many of them delivered at the annual CCLA program, Civil Litigation Updated.

Active in community affairs, he was National President of the Consumers' Association of Canada from 1974 to 1976, and served as the Association's honorary counsel until 1991. He has been Treasurer of the International Organization of Consumers' Unions, headquartered at the Hague (1975-1981); a director of the Canadian Standards Association (1985-1987); and a director (1997 - 2003) of the Nepean Community Resource Centre. He has had a long-standing involvement with ice hockey which he still plays actively. In addition to having been general solicitor for Canadian Hockey Association (now Hockey Canada) for approximately 20 years, he was a member of the International Ice Hockey Federation's Permanent Board of Arbitration (1990 - 1998); was certified in 1982 as a Level 4 coach in the CHA's National Coaching Certification Program; and was a long-time coach of competitive teams in the Nepean Minor Hockey Association, where his teams included the 1986 Juvenile AAA Ontario champions.

He has been married since 1962 to the former Helen Alexiade of Ottawa. They have one son, Jamey.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Law Society of Upper Canada
Canadian Bar Association
County of Carleton Law Association

EDUCATION

LLM, Harvard Law School
LLB, Queen's Law School
Queens University