Reuben M. Rosenblatt, Q.C., LSM

Partner

Direct Line: (416) 369-4110
Fax Number: (416) 864-9223
rrosenblatt@mindengross.com

Practice Area:

Commercial Real Estate; Construction and Development Financing; Banking; Mortgage Remedies

Reuben is the Chair and a senior member of the Real Estate Group. His practice focuses on complex real estate issues.

While continuing to maintain his practice of law, Reuben has become a desired arbitrator and mediator of commercial disputes including real estate, leases, condominium and insurance issues. He has been designated with an AV rating by Martindale-Hubbell for legal expertise and professional reputation.

Reuben is a frequent lecturer on real estate related issues at professional institutes, legal associations and universities.

He has been an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School since 1977 teaching the Real Estate Transactions Course.

Reuben was awarded the 2007 Law Society Medal by the Law Society of Upper Canada which recognizes outstanding Ontario lawyers whose service reflects the highest ideals of the profession. He was also the first recipient of the Canadian Bar Association Award of Excellence in Real Estate in January 1996. He received the Gold Key Award in 1994 and 1995 for Excellence in Teaching.

Law School: Osgoode Hall Law School
Year of Call: 1959
Year Joined the Firm: 1982

Affiliations:

Steering Committee re Questions of Judgment: Standards of Professional Conduct in Reviewing and Opining on Title Matters
Programme Committee for Special Lectures for the Law Society of Upper Canada
Canadian Bar Association
Canadian Association of Law Teachers
Metropolitan Toronto Lawyers Association
Law Society of Upper Canada
Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Ontario Inc.
Council of Osgoode Hall Law School
Academic Policy Committee of Osgoode Hall Law School
Former Member: Real Estate Issues Committee (Law Society of Upper Canada)
Programme Committee for the Institute of Continuing Legal Education for the Canadian Bar Association-Ontario since 1998

Awards:

2007 Law Society Medal
Recipient of Excellence in Teaching at Osgoode Hall -1994 and 2005
Gold Key Award by the Osgoode Hall Alumni Association - 2003
Award for more than 20 years of service in education

Articles by this Lawyer

"Uncertainty of the Law: Case Comment - Bank of Montreal v. Bray and First City Trust Co. v. McDonough" (1994) 35 R.P.R. (2d) 161-320

Associate Editor and Contributor for Real Property Reports

Past Editor of The Digest of Real Property Law

Contributor for two years of a monthly column on current real estate issues and cases

Delivered paper to the CBAO for the Institute on Continuing Legal Education, Real Property Law

Chair and speaker: "What You Want to Know About Mortgages"

Speaker: Real Estate Summit on the topic of Good Faith

Programme: "An Update on Recent Legal Decisions", January 1997

Case Comment: Manulife v. Conlin (1997), 6 R.P.R. (3d) 65

"Title Searching under the Ontario Registry Act after Fire v. Longtin: A Consensus Position", (1997), 1 R.P.R. (3d) 1.

The Six Minute Real Estate Lawyer: "King Lear Should Have Had a Lawyer" (2004)

"Parents v. Children - Children v. Parents: A Minefield for Lawyers
Transfers, Guarantees and Powers of Attorney among Family"

"Good Faith: Where Are We Now?"

"Fraudulent Conveyances: Watch Out!"