Biography
Lea Nebel is a partner in the firm’s Commercial Litigation group and Co-Chair of the firm’s Architectural, Construction, Engineering Services (ACES) group.
Lea represents a wide variety of clients in the construction industry, including owners, general contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers and design and engineering professionals.
Her construction related experience includes contract claims and disputes, construction liens, trust claims, lien priority disputes, bond claims, professional negligence, and bankruptcy. Lea has represented clients on a number of projects including, residential; retail; airports; hospitality and gaming; and athletic, retirement and recycling facilities.
In 2007, the Toronto Construction Association presented Lea with The Sean P. McKenna Young Construction Executive Leadership Award in recognition of her outstanding leadership within the Association and the construction industry.
Lea also conducts a broad commercial litigation practice. She has acted on a number of cases involving partnership and shareholder disputes, debt collection, mortgage enforcement, real estate, commercial tenancies, and defence of charges under the Ontario Provincial Offences Act.
Lea has appeared before all levels of court in Ontario and various administrative boards and tribunals, including the Landlord and Tenant Board and the Real Estate Council of Ontario Discipline Committee.
PRESENTATIONS
• Speaker Getting Paid: The Construction Lien Act
• Speaker, “Getting That Last Cheque”, Toronto Construction Association
• Speaker, Quick Hits in Construction: Opportunities and Challenges for ’08, Blaney McMurtry LLP seminar
• Co-Chair, “The Do’s and Don’ts of Mediation”, Ontario Bar Association CLE Program
• Speaker, “PIPEDA Credit Reporting and Debt Collection”, Council of Private Investigators, Ontario
Called to the Bar of Ontario, 2002
LL.B., Queen’s Faculty of Law, 2000
B.A. (Hons.), Political Studies, Queen’s University, 1997
Member, Young Construction Executives Club/Toronto Construction Association
Member, Law Society of Upper Canada
Member, Canadian Bar Association (Ontario)
Member, Advocates’ Society
Member, Canadian Association of Women in Construction (CAWIC)