Joel Richler

Practice Areas

Mr. Richler has over 45 years of experience in commercial dispute resolution as a litigation/arbitration/mediation counsel, arbitrator (domestic & international), adjudicator, dispute resolution board member and mediator. Before establishing his independent neutral practice min 2016, he was a dispute resolution partner in Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP.

Mr. Richler obtained his Civil and Common Law degrees at McGill Law School in 1977-78 and was called to the Ontario Bar in 1980. He obtained a Diploma in International Commercial Arbitration from the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in 2008 and was thereafter designated as a CIArb Fellow. He was a member of the Arbitration Roundtable of Toronto and then a founding director and officer of its successor, the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society. In addition, Mr. Richler is a founding Fellow of the Canadian College of Construction Lawyers, and was, while counsel, a Fellow of Litigation Counsel of America. Mr. Richler also acted as a director and treasurer of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (Canada).

Mr. Richler’s experience includes over 135 arbitration appointments, as tribunal chair, party-appointee, and sole arbitrator. He has also been appointed as emergency arbitrator by the ICC and ICDR. He has extensive experience in ad hoc and administered arbitrations in international and non-international arbitrations. He has also acted as a neutral evaluator, construction contract adjudicator and DRB chair on many projects, including some of the largest infrastructure projects in Canada.

Mr. Richler’s arbitration roster memberships or appointments the ICC, ICDR, VanIAC, SIAC, the LCIA, ADRIC and Arbitration Place.