Doug Thomson is a partner and senior lawyer in our Environmental Group in Toronto and is a member of the firm's Litigation Group. He advises private and public sector clients on a broad range of environmental legal matters, with particular emphasis on environmental approvals, environmental litigation and prosecutions and complex transactions.
Mr. Thomson was chair of the Environmental Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association - Ontario from 1989 to 1992 and a member of the National Environmental Section Executive of the Canadian Bar Association. Mr. Thomson is an editor of the Canadian Environmental Law Reports, environmental editor of Legal Alert (Insight), a contributing editor of the Environmental Law Journal and a featured columnist in The Environmental Compliance Report (Southam). Mr. Thomson has been involved in several of the leading Canadian environmental cases. He has also been a member of the Public Advisory Group to the Ontario Government's Environmental Assessment Task Force, and a member of the Public Advisory Group to the Ontario Minister of the Environment concerning the Ontario Environmental Bill of Rights. Mr. Thomson sits on the Business Advisory Committee to the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario, and he is a frequent speaker at environmental law conferences and seminars. Mr. Thomson has served 2 terms on the Board of Directors of the Ontario Waste Management Association and currently chairs the Continuous Improvement Fund Committee for Waste Diversion Ontario.
Mr. Thomson is listed in all editions of the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, a guide to the leading law firms and practitioners in Canada, as one of the leading Canadian lawyers in the area of environmental law. He is highly recommended in the PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook, is listed in The International Who's Who of Environmental Lawyers 2008, a guide to the world's leading practitioners, in the field of environmental law and the 2009 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada. Mr. Thomson is on the editorial board of the Canadian Environmental Law Reports.
Mr. Thomson received his BA (magna cum laude) in 1977, and his LLB in 1980, both from Queens' University. He is currently enrolled in the LLM program (criminal law) at the Osgoode Hall Law School. Mr. Thomson was called to the Ontario bar in 1982.