Biography: Environment

Leonard Griffiths is certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a specialist in environmental law. Len has a broad-based practice, which includes assisting clients with day-to-day regulatory advice, corporate transactions (mergers, acquisitions, offerings and financings), litigation (civil and regulatory) and project development.

Len counsels clients on matters regarding air, water, hazardous and non-hazardous wastes, occupational health and safety, sustainability, energy, mining and a wide range of other regulatory issues. He assists clients domestically and internationally to develop and undertake projects and transactions involving energy, industrial facilities and natural resources. He assists with environmental assessments, management plans and compliance audits and has been involved in the purchase, sale, financing, development, redevelopment and remediation of many facilities and properties (including greenfield and brownfield sites).

Len is past vice chair of the environmental specialist committee for the LSUC, past chair of the environmental sections of the Canadian Bar Association and Ontario Bar Assocation, and one of the founders of the Canadian Centre for Environmental Arbitration and Mediation.

Len is the editor and a contributing author of Contaminated Property in Canada and Sustainable Development in Canada: Into the Next Millennium, is the chief editor of The Environmental Law Journal and composed a chapter in Directors' Duties in Canada, 4th edition (2009), published by CCH Canadian Limited. Len presents at many conferences on a variety of EH&S issues, and is an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto's Law School (Natural Resources and Energy). pb 3'22" and 1'28".

He received his BA from Carleton University in 1980 and his LLB from the University of Toronto in 1983.