Don has extensive experience on significant construction projects across Canada, the US, and beyond.
Don is Reynolds Mirth’s Construction Team leader. His construction law practice involves providing advice to a large international general contractor and to many public and private owners, in respect to: construction contract delivery models and negotiation; insurance and bonding; tendering and procurement; builders’ liens; litigation and alternate dispute resolution.
Don has provided advice to Contractors and Owners in numerous construction mega projects. These include power projects (oil and gas, solar, wind, nuclear and carbon capture) and 100 public-private (P3) infrastructure projects (hospitals, penitentiaries, water treatment and transportation) throughout Canada, the United States and Australia. In addition, he has appeared at all levels of the Courts of Alberta and the Northwest Territories and in mediations and arbitrations as counsel and as mediator / arbitrator.
He taught the Construction Law Course at the Faculty of Law at the University of Alberta between 2002 and 2015. He is currently on the Board of Directors of a US public company and is a Fellow and former Governor of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers.
Don is married with two children and enjoys hockey and golf.
Education
University of Alberta, B.Comm (with Distinction)
University of Alberta, LL.B. (with Distinction)
University of Cambridge, LL.M. (First)
Bar Admission
Alberta, 1988
Ontario, 2013
