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About
Provided by Sharon Vogel
Practice Areas
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Arbitration
Construction Projects (Front-End Services)
Construction and Infrastructure Law
Insurance
Professional Liability
Public Policy
Career
Sharon is a named partner, co-chairs the firm’s construction and infrastructure practice group, and is a member of the Management Committee. Her expertise includes negotiation, mediation, arbitration and litigation of construction disputes, including construction liens, breach of contract, delays, surety bonds, construction insurance, and architects’ and engineers’ errors and omissions.
She has served as counsel to numerous government agencies, municipalities, private owners, and contractors to successfully manage delays and other legal issues on high-profile transportation, transit, energy, hospitals, mines, manufacturing facilities, water and wastewater, schools, and industrial, commercial, and institutional projects.
Together with her colleague Bruce Reynolds, she has played an important role in helping the Ontario government modernize the province’s construction law and helping to shape the Construction Act. Among the changes to the legislation are the creation of a prompt payment framework and the introduction of a mandatory dispute resolution system.
Sharon was also retained as co-counsel by the federal government to assist in the introduction of new legislation on prompt payment and adjudication. She co-authored the independent expert report Building a Federal Framework for Prompt Payment and Adjudication.
She is a Senior Fellow at the University of Melbourne, teaching International Construction Law. She is co-author of the text, A Guide to Canadian Construction Insurance Law, second edition.
Professional Memberships
Secretary and Fellow, Canadian College of Construction Lawyers.
Member, Board of Governors, Co-Chair, International Committee, and Fellow, American College of Construction Lawyers.
Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
Certified Specialist in Construction Law, Law Society of Ontario.
Vice Chair, International Bar Association, International Construction Projects Group, Dispute Resolution Committee.
Member, The Advocates’ Society.
Member, Canadian Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Arbitration Committee.
Publications
Books and Reports
Co-author, “Country Comparative Guides Canada Construction”, Legal 500/Legalease, May 2024
Co-author, “Arbitration Canada”, Lexology Panoramic, March 2024
Co-author, “Country Comparative Guides Canada International Arbitration”, The Legal 500/Legalease, November 2023
Author, Chapter: “Applying FIDIC Contracts in Canada,” FIDIC Contracts in the Americas: A Practical Guide to Application, Informa (London: Law from Routledge, 2023)
Co-author, “A Guide to Canadian Construction Insurance Law,” second edition, Thomson Reuters, 2023
Co-author, “Country Comparative Guides – Canada – Construction,” The Legal 500/Legalease, May, 2023
Co-author, “Country Comparative Guides – Canada – International Arbitration,” The Legal 500/Legalease, November, 2022
Co-author, “Getting the Deal Through Construction: Canada,” Lexology, June, 2022; June, 2023
Co-author, “Construction Canada Comparative Guide Chapter,” Mondaq, 2022
Co-author, “Construction Law (Canada) Chapter,” Chambers Global Construction Law Guide, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
Co-author, “Building a Federal Framework for Prompt Payment and Adjudication,” prepared for Public Services and Procurement Canada, 2018
Co-author, “Striking the Balance: Expert Review of Ontario’s Construction Lien Act,” Independent Report to the Ministry of the Attorney General, 2016
Co-author, “A Guide to Canadian Construction Insurance Law,” Carswell, 2013, 2023
Author, Chapter: “Construction Insurance,” Bullen, Leake & Jacob’s Canadian Precedents of Pleadings, Second Edition, 2013
Co-author, Chapter: “Canada,” Construction and Infrastructure Disputes (London: Globe Law and Business, 2013)
Author, Chapter: “Recent Developments in Construction Insurance,” Review of Construction Law: Recent Developments, Carswell, 2012
Co-author, “Getting the Deal Through: Construction 2017,” Law Business Research Ltd, 2008-17
Co-author, “Doing Business,” World Bank 2009-15 (with Bruce Reynolds)
Articles
Co-author, “Eurobank Ergasias S.A. v. Bombardier Inc: Letters of Credit and the Fraud of Third Parties,” April, 2024
Co-author, “IBA Guidelines on Conflicts of Interest in International Arbitration: Recent Amendments,” March, 2024
Featured, “Judicial Vacancies Holding Up Construction Litigation: Litigators,” Law Times, February, 2024
Co-author, “Update: Federal Prompt Payment Legislation Comes Into Force,” December, 2023
Co-author, “Construction Arbitration in Canada,” The Guide to Construction Arbitration, Global Arbitration Review, October, 2023
Co-author, “Special Issue: Delay Experts,” Construction Law Letter, May/June, 2023
Co-author, “Getting the Deal Through – Arbitration,” Lexology, March, 2023
Co-author, “Ontario Appeal Decision Reaffirms Court’s Reluctance to Set Aside Private Arbitral Awards,” The Lawyer’s Daily, February, 2023
Co-author, “Tall Ships Development Inc. v. Brockville (City): The Ontario Court of Appeal Reaffirms the Court’s Narrow Basis for Setting Aside Arbitral Awards,” January, 2023
Co-author, “Getting the Deal Through – Arbitration,” Lexology, February, 2022
Co-author, “Pair of Ontario Decisions Demonstrate Importance of Adherence to Contractual Notice Requirements,” October, 2021
Co-author, “Getting the Deal Through – Arbitration,” Lexology, July, 2021
Co-author, “Concurrency Clarified: Ontario Superior Court of Justice Favours Flexible, Practical Approach to Assessing Concurrent Delays,” April, 2021
Co-author, “Wastech v Greater Vancouver Sewerage: Uncertainty Remains,” March, 2021
Co-author, “The Ontario Government Suspends Limitation Periods Effective March 16, 2020,” March, 2020
Co-author, “COVID-19 – Health and Safety Implications,” March, 2020
Co-author, “The Repercussions of COVID-19 on the Execution of Construction Contracts,” March 12, 2020
Co-author, “Case Comment: A Narrow Interpretation of the Coverage Available Under a Builder’s Risk Insurance Policy: Pre-Eng v. Intact,” (2009) 37:6 Can. J. Ins. L. 61, originally published in the Ontario Bar Association’s Construction and Infrastructure Section Newsletter, August 13, 2019
Co-author, “Managing Utilities Risk in Urban Transit Infrastructure Projects,” ReNew Canada Magazine
Co-author, “A Thousand Pounds a Word: Following Ledcor, Policy Wording Continues to Govern in Insurance Policy Disputes,” CCCL Legal Update, L.U. #151, March, 2019
Co-author, “A Report on the Introduction of Prompt Payment and Adjudication Legislation in The Province of Ontario,” ICLR, Volume 36, Part 1, January, 2019
Co-author, “Security of Payment in the Construction Industry: Does International Experience Provide a Crystal Ball for North America?,” Construction Law Journal, November 22, 2018
Co-author, “I Once Was Lost But Now I’m Found: Ontario Government to Amend the Construction Act via Bill 57, the Restoring Trust, Transparency and Accountability Act,” November 16, 2018
Co-author, “A New Construction Act – What Has Changed and How Will It Affect P3 Projects?,” Lexpert® Special Edition on Infrastructure, September, 2018
Co-author, “Still a Little Lost in Transition?: the Construction Act Transition Provisions and the Regulations,” August 2, 2018
Co-author, “Duty to Notify Bond Beneficiaries: Valard Construction v. Bird Construction 2018 SCC 8,” July 19, 2018
Co-author, “Somewhat Lost in Transition?: A Review of the Intent and Operation of the Transition Period in Ontario’s Construction Act,” May 30, 2018
Co-author, “Are Construction Defects Covered Property Damage in an Insurance Contract?,” Construction Law Letter, Volume 33 no. 5, 2017
Co-author, “Mind the Gap-Professional Liability Insurance and Possible Regulatory Changes to the Standard of Care,” Construction Law Letter, Volume 33 no. 3, 2017
Features
Featured, “One size does not fit all,” Lexpert Special Edition: Infrastructure, May, 2023
Featured, “Construction disputes trends: design-build P3 risk, dispute boards, settlement disclosure,” Lexpert Special Edition: Infrastructure, May, 2023
Featured, “Sharon Vogel at Singleton Urquhart Reynolds Vogel on launching her firm and mentorship post-pandemic,” Canadian Lawyer Magazine, May, 2023
Featured, “Sharon Vogel: Titan and Teacher – A Tribute on International Women’s Day,” March 8, 2023
Featured in “A Report on the Introduction of Prompt Payment and Adjudication: Legislation in The Province of Ontario,” International Construction Law Review Journal, January 21, 2019
Interview, “Women in Construction and How They’re Paving the Way,” Osgoode PD Blog, November, 2018
Featured in “Adjudication justice analyzed at Osgoode Hall session,” Daily Commercial News, May 9, 2018
“CEO Power Breakfast, Striking a fine balance – The two masterminds behind the Lien Act Review discuss the challenges in balancing freedom of contract with the need for more regulation,” Builders’ Digest
Interview, “Meet the Women Rainmakers!,” Law Practice Today, September, 2017
Personal
Canadian Construction Lawyer of the Year Award (three times), Benchmark Canada.
Recognized as the Top Construction Projects Lawyer in Ontario by the Lexology Client Choice Awards.
Recognized in the Hall of Fame as a top lawyer in Canadian construction by The Legal 500.
Female Trailblazer Excellence Award, Canadian Law Awards.
Award of Excellence, (The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors “RICS” and the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators “CIArb.”).
Recognized in Benchmark Canada — The Definitive Guide to Canada’s Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys as a “Litigation Star” and one of the top women litigators in Canada.
Recognized in Chambers Canada — Canada’s Leading Lawyers for Business (Construction) as a Band 1 practitioner in the area of Construction Law; and for Dispute Resolution: Arbitration.
Ranked in the areas of Administrative and Public Law, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Construction
Law, Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law and Public Procurement Law by Best Lawyers Canada®.
Recognized as a Leading Construction Lawyer (most frequently recommended) in the Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory.
Recognized as a Leading Infrastructure Lawyer in the Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory.
Recognized in the Lexpert® American Lawyer Guide as one of the leading 500 lawyers in Canada (Construction Law).
Recognized in the Lexpert®/Report on Business Infrastructure Special Edition on Infrastructure Law. Recognized in the Lexpert® Special Edition on Litigation.
Recognized in Who’s Who Legal as one of North America’s Best Construction Law Global Thought Leaders.
Recognized in Who’s Who Legal as one of the Top Three Construction Lawyers in Canada.
Recognized in Legal Media Group’s Guide to the World’s Leading Women in Business Law.
Martindale-Hubbell® AV® PreeminentTM 4.6 out of 5 peer review rated.
Former Board Member, Habitat for Humanity
Rider and Fundraiser, Ride for Heart 2011-2019
Former Board Member, Youth Challenge International