519.805.8186

rjk@kennaley.ca

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Robert Kennaley worked in the construction industry for 15 years before going to law school.  He has since practiced exclusively in the area of construction law for his 25+ year career in law.  His day to day practice involves contract drafting and review, dispute resolution and negotiations, construction lien and trust claims, claims involving owners, consultants and insurers, tendering issues and claims, building code violations, claims against performance and labour and material payment bonds and Occupational Health and Safety Act issues. 

Rob has acted for the Ministry of Transportation, Tarion Warranty Corporation, Municipalities, private and public owners, home-builders and developers, general contractors, subcontractors and trades of all kinds, as well as suppliers, surety companies, architects and engineers. 

Rob speaks and writes regularly on construction law issues, for trade associations, universities, colleges and education providers.  He has been published well over 100 times, writing and speaking for such entities as the Ontario Bar Association’s Construction and Administrative Law Sections, the Federated Press, the Electrical Contractors Association, the Public Buyer’s Association, the Ontario Road Builders Association, the Toronto Construction Association, the Barrie, Niagara and Niagara Heavy Contractor's Associations, the Simcoe County, Brantford and Haldimand-Norfolk Homebuilder's Associations, Construction Law Update, Lorman Education Services, Infonex, the Canadian Nursery Landscape Association and Landscape Ontario, the Snow and Ice Management Association, the University of Waterloo, Canadian Mechanical Contracting Education Foundation, Lexis-Nexis, Sheridan College and George Brown College.

For a list of topics presented in publications and seminars please click here.

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