8:30 am: Registration & Continental Breakfast

9:00 am to 10:00 am: Igor Ellyn - The Role and Process of Arbitration

10:00 am - 10:15 am: Break

10:15 am to 11:15 am: Barry A. Lebow - How to be an Expert Witness

The Role and Process of Arbitration

Igor Ellyn, QC, FCIArb.

Chartered Arbitrator and Mediator - Business and Commercial Disputes Igor Ellyn ADR

Igor Ellyn has been a well-recognized name in commercial litigation, arbitration and mediation in southern Ontario for more than four decades. Mr. Ellyn has been sole arbitrator in about 15 commercial disputes, including contract interpretation, commercial leasing, construction and related matters. He has been engaged as sole arbitrator by the ICC International Court of Arbitration and completed an arbitral award in an international contract case, involving parties from German and the United States determined under the law of the State of Indiana. Mr. Ellyn has also been engaged as sole arbitrator by the ADR Institute of Ontario and the Better Business Bureau of Central and Mid-Western Ontario. He has also acted on numerous private ad hoc arbitrations both as arbitrator and as counsel.

For nearly 40 years, Mr. Ellyn was the senior partner of a boutique law firm, which was known as Ellyn Law LLP from 2007-2015. From 1981 until 2007, the firm was known as Ellyn-Barristers.

A Toronto civil litigation lawyer since 1973 and Queen’s Counsel since 1985, Igor Ellyn has been counsel, mediator or arbitrator on more than 250 complex trials and legal proceedings in the Superior Court of Justice, in the Court of Appeal and in the Federal Court of Canada and in the Supreme Court of Canada. Igor Ellyn has mediated at least 30 commercial disputes arising from commercial matters, employment law, construction matters and other business issues. He has also been counsel on 100 or more mediations and pre-trial conferences.

How To Be An Expert Witness

Barry A. Lebow, FRI, CRF, Master ASA, SRES, CREC, IFAS

Professional Land Economist, Arbitrator and Mediator,

Broker RE/MAX Ultimate Realty Inc.

Barry A. Lebow is a long standing member of REIC and award recipient. He received his certificate from the Arbitrators Institute of Canada in 1988 and has conducted numerous hearings over the decades predominately relating to real estate and commercial landlord-tenant disputes although he has dealt with construction and commission disputes as well. As an expert witness, during his appraisal years Barry appeared in approximately 50 arbitrations.