Background

Sharon Vogel is a partner in our Toronto office and Regional Leader of the Firm's International Construction Projects Group. Sharon was called to the Ontario Bar in 1993 with an LLB from the University of Toronto (1991). In 1996, Sharon obtained her LLM from the University of Auckland in New Zealand. She obtained her Bachelor of Arts from McMaster University in 1988.

Areas of Practice

• Sharon practices construction and surety law, working on matters frequently involving construction disputes relating to large projects in various jurisdictions.

Professional Experience

• Specializes in the litigation, arbitration and/or mediation of construction claims, construction liens, trust claims, construction insurance claims, and architect's and engineer's errors and omissions, as well as the drafting and negotiating of construction engineering and equipment supply contracts on behalf of owners, developers, general contractors, subcontractors and suppliers.
• Extensive experience representing surety bonding companies with respect to various claims on construction projects, including performance bond claims and labour and material payment bond claims.
• Experience representing fidelity bonding companies, rendering opinions, defending claims, and pursuing subrogated actions.
• Experience at all levels of court including the Ontario Superior Court, Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada.

Professional and Community Activities

• Member of the Ontario Canadian Bar Association of Ontario , Construction Law Section 1993 – Present
• Member of the International Bar Association 2009 – Present
• Member of the Advocates’ Society 2011 – Present
• Member of CAWIC (Canadian Association of Women in Construction) 2005 – Present
• Board Member of Youth Challenge International 2007 – 2010
• Guest lecturer at the Ontario Police College and University of Toronto Architecture School

Selected Publications

• Author, Chapter entitled “Recent Developments in Construction Insurance,” Bi-Annual Construction Law (to be published in 2012, Carswell, Toronto)
• Co-Author, An Analysis of Tercon Contractors Ltd. v. British Columbia: Or, If It Walks Like a Duck, [2010] I.C.L.R 284
• Co-Author, ADR and the Reluctant Surety, JAMS Global Construction Solutions, Spring 2010
• Co-Author, Bot Construction Limited v. Ontario (Ministry of Transportation) Case Comment, CCCL Legal Update, LUC No. 91 [2010]
• Co-Author, Tercon Contractors Ltd. v. British Columbia (Transportation and Highways) Case Comment, CCCL Legal Update, LUC No. 90 [2010]
• Co-author, Canadian Chapter of Getting the Deal Through: Construction 2010, 2009, 2008
• Co-author, Canadian Chapter of Doing Business 2010, 2009, World Bank Publication
• Co-author, Landmark CNR v. Royal and Sun Alliance case sets limits for exclusion, Journal of Commerce, February 9, 2009 and Daily Commercial News, February 9, 2009
• Author, Canadian National Railway Co. v. Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Co. of Canada Case Comment, Nuts & Bolts, Volume 23, No. 3, February 2009
• Author, Canadian National Railway Co. v. Royal and Sun Alliance Insurance Co. of Canada Case Comment, CCCL Legal Update, LUC No, 79 [2008]
• Contributor, Concurrent Delay: A Modest Proposal ' (2007) I J. C. C. C. L. 199
• Author, Have CGL Policies been turned into Performance Bonds? Nuts and Bolts, Volume 21, No. 2, January 2007