Rodney Smith > Borden Ladner Gervais LLP > Calgary, Canada > Lawyer Profile
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Offices
Centennial Place, East Tower
520 3rd Avenue SW, Suite 1900
Calgary, AB T2P 0R3
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Rodney Smith
Work Department
Construction
Position
Partner
Career
Rodney is a partner in BLG’s Construction Group in Calgary. He represents clients in a broad range of civil litigation matters in court and arbitration. He has represented owners, general contractors and subcontractors in disputes arising from large-scale construction and engineering projects. His experience includes multi-million dollar cases involving contractual disputes, negligence, deficiency claims and delay claims. Rodney has significant trial experience, appearing before all levels of Court in Alberta, the Court of Queen’s Bench of Manitoba, the Federal Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, as well as a variety of administrative tribunals. He has also participated in a number of arbitrations, mediations and Judicial Dispute Resolutions. Rodney was called to the Alberta Bar in 2009 and the Manitoba Bar in 2017.
Languages
English
Memberships
Member, Canadian Bar Association; Member, The Advocates’ Society; Member, Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC); Member, Calgary Bar Association.
Education
J.D., University of Calgary, 2008. M.Phil., University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College, 2004; B.A. (with distinction), University of Calgary, 2003.
Personal
Rodney volunteers at Legal Education Society of Alberta; CBA Mentoring Program; BLG Reads to Kids; Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus Association of Southern Alberta.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Construction
(Next Generation Partners)Borden Ladner Gervais LLP remains a leader in the practice space, advising domestic and international owners/sponsors, governmental authorities, suppliers, service providers, contractor/developer consortiums, lenders and equity investors over the course of the entire lifecycle of major construction projects. With a client base spanning such sectors as transportation, health services, social infrastructure and energy, the firm assists with matters ranging from early-stage project and procurement planning and structuring, project governance, public funding and private financing to regulatory approval matters, closing matters and litigation, mediation and arbitration. Patricia Morrison KC leads the team in Calgary and provides expertise on large-scale infrastructure, industrial and commercial projects, in addition to high-value disputes involving tenders, construction contracts and liens. Jeffrey Vallis KC
, also in Calgary, brings experience in domestic and international arbitrations. Richard Shaban in Toronto draws on 30 years of handling transactional work and the resolution of issues during procurement and project delivery. In Montreal, Simon Grégoire specializes in complex construction litigation and infrastructure and energy construction disputes. Other key figures include Gabriel Lefebvre, who brings strength to engineers’ liability claims in Montreal, Rodney Smith in Calgary and veteran arbitrator Hugh Meighen in Toronto.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Construction
- International trade
- Labour and employment
- Business immigration
- Business immigration
- Pensions
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Transport > Aviation
- Transport > Shipping
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- Banking and finance
- Business immigration
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Transport > Other transport
- Pensions
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A