Professional Profile

Marc-Nicholas Quinn

Family Law and Litigation Mediator
700- 200 Elgin Street
Ottawa, Ontario K2P 1L5
T:(613) 563-1131
F:(613) 230-8297

mquinn@pqtlaw.com 

Marc-Nicholas Quinn is experienced and qualified to appear before all levels of Court, including the Superior Court of Justice, the Divisional Court and the Ontario Court of Appeal.  He has extensive experience before the various levels of Courts as well as many provincial and federal administrative tribunals.  While he has represented large institutional and governmental interests including various property and casualty insurers, the Department of Justice and a large municipal corporation, his primary focus today is on representing private individuals and corporations against institutional interests.

Mr. Quinn’s business background makes him an effective advocate when representing business owners in commercial disputes and insurance matters.   Having practical business experience allows Mr. Quinn to understand what kind of solutions will work in the real world for his clients.   In that regard, Mr. Quinn is often consulted in relation to business liability and insurance reviews respecting general liability and protecting his clients therefrom.  Mr. Quinn’s inquisitive nature benefits his clients in innumerable ways.  That nature is evidenced by the fact that he is licenced as a private investigator under the Private Security and Investigative Services Act of Ontario.

With the insight and experience that he has gained through his extensive law practice Mr. Quinn embarked on extensive mediation training as a natural adjunct to his current profession.  He is a fully qualified mediator in family law, and is a Court Appointed Roster Mediator appointed through the Attorney General’s office of Ontario.  He has successfully mediated disputes in the areas of family law, personal injury, motor vehicle, insurance, employment, corporate and commercial disputes.

To consult with Mr. Quinn, please contact him at 613-563-1131 or mquinn@pqtlaw.com.

EDUCATION 

University of Ottawa   LL.B.
University of Ottawa  B.A. concentration in Criminology 

LANGUAGES  

French (spoken and comprehension) & English. 

PROFESSIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE 

PLANT QUINN THIELE, LLP, Managing Partner 

Main areas of practice: family law and civil litigation with an emphasis on personal injury and insurance matters. 

Part-Time Professor, Algonquin College, Law Clerk Program, Advanced Civil Procedure II and Dispute Resolution and Negotiation Courses. 
 

MEMBERSHIPS AND ASSOCIATIONS  

Law Society of Upper Canada
Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (OTLA)
County of Carleton Law Association (CCLA)
Ontario Association for Family Mediation (Associate Member)
Family Mediation Canada (Associate Member)
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
Law Society of Upper Canada Lawyer Referral Service
Ontario Legal Aid Plan (Panel Member)
Assaulted Women’s Help Line (Service Provider)
Ottawa Community Resource Centre (Service Provider) 
 
MEDIATION AND OTHER TRAINING 

Mr. Quinn focuses on insurance, personal injury and family law mediation.  He has completed more than 116 hours in mediation and negotiation skills training.  

He is a court-connected mediator and listed as a mediator on the Attorney General's list of court-connected roster mediators with the Ontario Mandatory Mediation Program (OMMP). 

Certificate in Abuse Issues in Family Mediation and Arbitration (16hrs) (taught by Professor of Law, Peggy Malpass, LL.B., Acc.F.M. (OAFM)). 

Certificate in Family Mediation Training (40hrs) (taught by Professor of Law, Peggy Malpass, LL.B., Acc.F.M. (OAFM), Shelagh MacDonald, M.S.W., R.S.W., Acc.F.M. (OAFM) and John Goodwin, LLB., Acc.F.M. (OAFM)).

Mediation Skills Training - Alternate Dispute and Conflict Resolution Program, Mediation Centre of Southeastern Ontario (20hrs) (taught by Professor of Law, Ronald J. Price, Q.C., J.D. and David G. Price, LL.B., LL.M.). 

Certificate of Full Participation, Negotiation Skills Training - Alternate Dispute and Conflict Resolution Program, Mediation Centre of Southeastern Ontario (20hrs) (taught by Professor of Law, Ronald J. Price, Q.C., J.D.). 

Skills Training - Collaborative Family Law Practice. 
 

LECTURES 

Participant in preparing lectures on Landlord and Tenant Issues at the 2007 13th East Region Solicitors Conference. 

Participant in preparing the course content for Advanced Landlord and Tenant course at Algonquin College. 

Lecturer to the Real Estate Association of Ottawa-Carleton in relation to real estate and liability. 

Lecturer to Articling Students at the University of Ottawa Law School in conjunction with CCLA and CBA continuing legal education program. 

Articling Principal as governed and supervised by the Law Society of Upper Canada. 

Lecturer at the University of Ottawa Law School on subject of law practice management. 

PAPERS 

Ethics and Articling. 

Liability Associated with Acts of Patients in Ontario Hospitals.

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