Bill Andrew

Bill Andrew is a lawyer practicing primarily family law in Chilliwack. He was in private practice in Ontario from 1978 to 1994 with his practice having an emphasis on civil litigation. Upon moving to B.C. with his family Bill joined the Legal Services Society and worked in Vancouver, Chilliwack and Surrey in family law He was the managing lawyer of the Surrey Regional office until 2007 when he opened his office in Chilliwack. Bill has been the past president of the Chilliwack Bar Association and a past member of the CBA council for 3 years. He is a family law mediator and has had extensive involvement in mediation in cases concerning child protection matters.

Peter Behie

Peter Behie has a wealth of experience in commercial and personal injury litigation. He has been counsel in several products liability cases that have resulted in major personal injury awards and in numerous cases involving injunctions. Peter has appeared as counsel in a wide range of British Columbia courts and administrative tribunals, including the British Columbia Court of Appeal. Peter also possesses strong mediation skills, and has acted as counsel, mediator, negotiator, and arbitrator on alternative dispute cases and on a number of constitutional law cases.

Peter holds a Bachelor of Arts (Carleton University), a Bachelor of Laws degree (University of Victoria) and a Master of Laws degree (University of California at Berkeley). Following law school Mr. Behie clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada. He was called to the Bar of British Columbia and practiced with a major commercial law firm in Vancouver prior to joining Ramsay Lampman Rhodes.

Peter has taught law school courses in both civil procedure and alternate dispute resolution at the University of Victoria Faculty of Law, and he is Past President of the Nanaimo and District Hospital Foundation. He also teaches each year at the PLTC on mediation. He has given CLE papers and Trial Lawyers Papers on procedure and alternative dispute resolution. Peter is a Member of the Rules Revision Committee and has been awarded the CBA Community Service Award.

Ian Doddington, CA, CMC

Kelly Doyle

Kelly Doyle is a litigation lawyer. He was called to the bar in 1979 and practices in the areas of commercial litigation, risk management and dispute resolution. He is the founding principal of Doyle PLC - a professional law corporation carrying on practice in Vancouver and Surrey and offering a wide spectrum of litigation and risk management services to clients.

Kelly was Chair of the ADR (Vancouver) subsection of the CBA (BC branch) for three years. He has served as a mediator of commercial, construction, property and employment disputes and sat as an arbitrator.

He is the current Chair of the Pro Bono Standing Committee of the Canadian Bar Association (National). He is also a director and a past president of Pro Bono Law of BC, a non profit society which promotes delivery of legal services to disadvantaged people in our province.

Kelly has written and presented on a variety of topics including dispute resolution, professional responsibility, insolvency, commercial leasing, builders' liens, construction and environmental law. He has taught dispute resolution as an adjunct professor at UBC Law School and his book for professional advisers on risk management entitled Asset Protection was published in October 2005.

David Merner

The Honourable Judge Donna Senniw

Paul Taberner LLB, C.Med

Paul is a former lawyer (BC Bar 1971-2006) who now works as a commercial mediator and negotiation consultant/trainer. Paul is a member of the B.C. Mediator Roster (Civil) and is a founding member of and President of the Commercial Mediation Association and a member of CanSolve Global Group of Mediators. Paul is also a Director and President of Core Conflict Resolution Society.

Paul does negotiation training and consulting in affiliation with SNS Strategic Negotiation Services, a global consulting network.