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Arthur I. Fish
Téléphone
416.367.6178
Télécopieur
416.361.2719
Courriel
afish@blg.com
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Background
Arthur Fish is a partner in the Toronto office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP and the Manager of the Toronto Regional Wealth Management Practice. Arthur was called to the Ontario Bar in 1985. He received his Doctorate from the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto in 1993. He received the B.C.L. from Oxford University, Wadham College in 1986, and his LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1983.
Areas of Practice
- Fiduciary Advisory: assisting Canada's financial services sector in meeting the needs of Canada's aging population
- Mental Capacity
- Commercial Trusts
- Mediator
- Estate Planning and Administration
- Charities and Not-for-Profit entities
Rankings and Recognitions
- Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Canada® 2012 (Trusts and Estates)
- Recognized in the 2011 Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (Estate & Personal Tax Planning)
Professional Experience
- Arthur has overseen the development of BLG Toronto's full service Wealth Management Practice Group. The group includes lawyers who practice as planners and advisors; estate litigators; paralegals and numerous support staff. The group functions as a team, and provides comprehensive services to clients on all matters related to estate planning, administration and litigation, trusts, mental capacity and charities including related tax issues.
- Arthur's primary areas of practice are advising commercial fiduciaries on issues of mental capacity and estate law; mental capacity and substitute decision making; the creation and operation of commercial trusts; charities and estate planning and administration. Arthur has a rapidly growing mediation practice which is focused on estate, trust and guardianship disputes.
- Arthur has been involved in planning and administering a number of large estates for high net worth Canadian families. He recently assisted a family with very substantial assets in developing a structure that allowed the family to repair frayed relationships by adopting a structured approach to consultation and decision making.
- Arthur has recently assisted a number of families in completing the efficient administration of bankrupt estates.
- Arthur has developed a patient and persistent approach to mediating complex disputes that has resulted in successfully resolving a number of very bitter, multi-party disputes.
- Arthur recently assisted in establishing several charitable and not-for-profit structures that provided for overseas operations or the ownership and operation of related businesses.
- Arthur recently assisted in developing effective strategies for updating or repairing commercial trusts – without any need for litigation - that were inadequate to meet contemporary needs.
- Arthur has recently acted for individual and corporate donors who have made large bequests to charity, and for charities that are receiving such bequests.
- Arthur frequently acts for people with disabilities, and for families with disabled relatives. He recently assisted a number of families in developing creative estate plans that protected assets without comprising individual independence.
- Arthur frequently advises people on crises arising from a relatives mental illness, drug abuse or alcoholism.
Professional and Community Activities
- Former Member of Ontario's Consent and Capacity Board.
- Former Chair of the Ontario Mental Health Foundation, Member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at University of Toronto, Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
- Legal Fellow, 1990-91 to the Competency Clinic of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and in-house counsel for the year 1994-95.
- Co-author of a book on mental competency assessment, When the Mind Fails, University of Toronto Press, 1994. The book is widely used as a teaching text in hospitals and other health care settings.
Speaking Engagements
- Arthur has spoken widely and frequently. Recent speeches or presentations include:
- Law Society of Upper Canada, “Special Lectures 2010: A Medical-Legal Approach to Estate Planning, Decision-Making, and Estate Dispute Resolution for the Older Client” for which he was a member of the planning committee and a panellist.
- Assante Wealth Management, National Conference, “Whose Money? - Legal & Ethical Issues on a Client's Mental Incapacity or Death.”
- Independent Financial Brokers, Toronto Spring Summit, “Mental Incapacity in a Commercial Setting”
- Schulich School of Business, “Managing the Family Enterprise ”
Publications
- Book: 'When the Mind Fails: A Guide to Dealing with Incompetency' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994). Co-authored with Dr. Michel Silberfeld of the Mental Competency Clinic of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care.
- Book Chapter: "Guidelines on Consent to Psychotherapy," co-authored with Dr. M. Silberfeld in Standards and Guidelines for the Psychotherapies, (University of Toronto Press: 1998).
- Book Chapter: (co-authored with Dr. Susan Lieff), 'Financial Competency, Contracts, and Property,' in Bloom and Bay, ed., A Practical Guide to Mental Health, Capacity and Consent Law of Ontario, (Carswell, 1996). Revised version currently in press.
- Conference Paper (in press) Annals of the Law Society Special Lectures, 2010, “ Cognitive Neuroscience and the Solicitor's Approach to Mental Incapacity”
- Article “Melting the Iceberg: Estate Planning for the Parents of Disabled Children (forthcoming, Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal)
- Article: 'Making it Work: Practical Considerations in Drafting Continuing Powers of Attorney for Property,' 17 Estates, Trusts & Pensions Journal (1997( 249-277).
- Article: 'The Use and Abuse of Powers of Attorney for Personal Care,' 17 Estates, Trusts & Pensions Journal (1997) 67-92.
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Background
Arthur Fish is a partner in the Toronto office of Borden Ladner Gervais LLP and the Manager of the Toronto Regional Wealth Management Practice. Arthur was called to the Ontario Bar in 1985. He received his Doctorate from the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto in 1993. He received the B.C.L. from Oxford University, Wadham College in 1986, and his LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1983.
Areas of Practice
- Fiduciary Advisory: assisting Canada's financial services sector in meeting the needs of Canada's aging population
- Mental Capacity
- Commercial Trusts
- Mediator
- Estate Planning and Administration
- Charities and Not-for-Profit entities
Rankings and Recognitions
- Selected by peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in Canada® 2012 (Trusts and Estates)
- Recognized in the 2011 Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (Estate & Personal Tax Planning)
Professional Experience
- Arthur has overseen the development of BLG Toronto's full service Wealth Management Practice Group. The group includes lawyers who practice as planners and advisors; estate litigators; paralegals and numerous support staff. The group functions as a team, and provides comprehensive services to clients on all matters related to estate planning, administration and litigation, trusts, mental capacity and charities including related tax issues.
- Arthur's primary areas of practice are advising commercial fiduciaries on issues of mental capacity and estate law; mental capacity and substitute decision making; the creation and operation of commercial trusts; charities and estate planning and administration. Arthur has a rapidly growing mediation practice which is focused on estate, trust and guardianship disputes.
- Arthur has been involved in planning and administering a number of large estates for high net worth Canadian families. He recently assisted a family with very substantial assets in developing a structure that allowed the family to repair frayed relationships by adopting a structured approach to consultation and decision making.
- Arthur has recently assisted a number of families in completing the efficient administration of bankrupt estates.
- Arthur has developed a patient and persistent approach to mediating complex disputes that has resulted in successfully resolving a number of very bitter, multi-party disputes.
- Arthur recently assisted in establishing several charitable and not-for-profit structures that provided for overseas operations or the ownership and operation of related businesses.
- Arthur recently assisted in developing effective strategies for updating or repairing commercial trusts – without any need for litigation - that were inadequate to meet contemporary needs.
- Arthur has recently acted for individual and corporate donors who have made large bequests to charity, and for charities that are receiving such bequests.
- Arthur frequently acts for people with disabilities, and for families with disabled relatives. He recently assisted a number of families in developing creative estate plans that protected assets without comprising individual independence.
- Arthur frequently advises people on crises arising from a relatives mental illness, drug abuse or alcoholism.
Professional and Community Activities
- Former Member of Ontario's Consent and Capacity Board.
- Former Chair of the Ontario Mental Health Foundation, Member of the Joint Centre for Bioethics at University of Toronto, Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto.
- Legal Fellow, 1990-91 to the Competency Clinic of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care and in-house counsel for the year 1994-95.
- Co-author of a book on mental competency assessment, When the Mind Fails, University of Toronto Press, 1994. The book is widely used as a teaching text in hospitals and other health care settings.
Speaking Engagements
- Arthur has spoken widely and frequently. Recent speeches or presentations include:
- Law Society of Upper Canada, “Special Lectures 2010: A Medical-Legal Approach to Estate Planning, Decision-Making, and Estate Dispute Resolution for the Older Client” for which he was a member of the planning committee and a panellist.
- Assante Wealth Management, National Conference, “Whose Money? - Legal & Ethical Issues on a Client's Mental Incapacity or Death.”
- Independent Financial Brokers, Toronto Spring Summit, “Mental Incapacity in a Commercial Setting”
- Schulich School of Business, “Managing the Family Enterprise ”
Publications
- Book: 'When the Mind Fails: A Guide to Dealing with Incompetency' (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994). Co-authored with Dr. Michel Silberfeld of the Mental Competency Clinic of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care.
- Book Chapter: "Guidelines on Consent to Psychotherapy," co-authored with Dr. M. Silberfeld in Standards and Guidelines for the Psychotherapies, (University of Toronto Press: 1998).
- Book Chapter: (co-authored with Dr. Susan Lieff), 'Financial Competency, Contracts, and Property,' in Bloom and Bay, ed., A Practical Guide to Mental Health, Capacity and Consent Law of Ontario, (Carswell, 1996). Revised version currently in press.
- Conference Paper (in press) Annals of the Law Society Special Lectures, 2010, “ Cognitive Neuroscience and the Solicitor's Approach to Mental Incapacity”
- Article “Melting the Iceberg: Estate Planning for the Parents of Disabled Children (forthcoming, Estates, Trusts and Pensions Journal)
- Article: 'Making it Work: Practical Considerations in Drafting Continuing Powers of Attorney for Property,' 17 Estates, Trusts & Pensions Journal (1997( 249-277).
- Article: 'The Use and Abuse of Powers of Attorney for Personal Care,' 17 Estates, Trusts & Pensions Journal (1997) 67-92.
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