Robert Emblem

Background

About Robert Emblem

Bob joined Clyde & Co in 2011 upon the firm’s merger with Nicholl Paskell-Mede, where he had been a partner since 1997. He has a particular expertise in construction disputes and is frequently retained to advise and represent the interests of developers, owners, contractors, construction professionals and their insurers. He has handled, defended and resolved hundreds of construction disputes throughout North America over the past 20 years. Having worked on secondment with a leading Lloyd’s syndicate in the mid-1990s, Bob has also developed a large insurance coverage and defense practice. He represents insurers, reinsurers and insureds in the areas of commercial general liability, professional liability, media/technology liability, directors’ and officers’ liability, fidelity, contingency and property insurance. In addition to providing coverage and regulatory advice to insurers and reinsurers, he regularly performs policy wording reviews and claims audits. Bob is a member of both the Ontario and Quebec bars, has wide-ranging experience in both the Common Law and civil law systems, and is fluently bilingual in English and French. Bob regularly appears before all levels of the Quebec courts as well as arbitration and mediation panels throughout North America. Bob is one of the leading experts in Canada in the area of course of construction insurance and co-authored Commercial General Liability Insurance published by Butterworths. He speaks regularly at conferences and delivers papers for the Barreau du Québec, the Canadian Institute, the Canadian Bar Association, Insight, Canadian Defence Lawyers, the Insurance Bureau of Canada and other organizations. Bob is currently ranked by Lexpert as one of Canada's Leading Infrastructure and Litigation Lawyers (2014), as well as by Best Lawyers and Martindale Hubbell.