Efficient Dispute Resolution: Leveraging Arbitration for Commercial Conflicts
With court delays becoming longer, arbitration offers many benefits for resolving commercial disputes, big and small. Take a lunch break and join us to hear how you can best use arbitration to resolve your clients’ disputes quickly, efficiently, and cost-effectively. Arbitration can be considered even if a proceeding has been started in court or for resolving part of a dispute, like a motion.
Eric Morgan, an arbitrator on Arbitration Place’s NextGen Roster, will share practical tips and strategies for how to lay the foundations for successful arbitration. The discussion will also include ethical and professionalism issues in arbitration, including arbitrator conflicts and independence, and interviewing arbitrators.
The discussion will include ethical and professionalism issues in arbitration, including:
Toronto Lawyers Association
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Partner at Kushneryk Morgan LLP
Eric helps businesses resolve their complex legal disputes. He practices corporate and commercial litigation and arbitration. He has acted in complex, multi-party disputes involving contractual issues; torts, including professional negligence; class actions; corporate governance matters; shareholder disputes; and commercial and investor-state arbitrations. Eric has appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada, courts at all levels in Ontario, courts in BC, Alberta, and New Brunswick, and in arbitrations and mediations. He has also made submissions to the Ontario Legislature regarding arbitration legislation and advised clients on anti-corruption and risk management matters. Eric is the author of a book on professional negligence, a book chapter on dispute resolution in Canada, and numerous articles. Eric sits on the advisory board of Young Canadian Arbitration Practitioners, where he co-chaired the Policy and Advocacy Committee. He was previously a North American representative for the ICC Young Arbitrators Forum. Eric previously practiced in the litigation department of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP and was a partner at a boutique firm in Toronto. Before joining Osler, Eric worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP in London, during which time he was seconded to the Bank of England and the litigation and special investigations team of Barclays Bank PLC. He also taught criminal law at Oxford University. Eric obtained his law degree from Oxford University and a degree in economics from the University of Toronto. He was admitted to the Ontario bar in 2011. Eric is available to act as an arbitrator in disputes. He was selected as a member of the inaugural NextGen Roster of Arbitrators at Arbitration Place and has been appointed to the Vancouver International Arbitration Centre’s panels of arbitrators.
