GUELPH LAWYERS SMITHVALERIOTE LLP
rmullin@smithvaleriote.com
Voice: 519 837 2100 x 255
Legal Assistant: Mrs.Terra Telford, ext.313
Rob has quickly grown his practice to become one of the region’s preeminent knowledge leaders in condominium law. He is a frequent writer and accomplished speaker on a variety of related topics. Rob regularly works with developers, property management firms and condominium boards across Ontario to find creative, proven, practical and cost-effective solutions for the unique challenges that condominiums face.
Rob routinely advises condominium corporations on the creation of standard unit by-laws and indemnity agreements, the adoption of declaratory, by-law and rule amendments, and enforcement procedures including liens, powers of sale, mediations & arbitration, and compliance orders. He also actively assists condominium developers in the formation of new condominiums, including agreements of purchase and sale, new declarations, by-laws, rules, management agreements, and disclosure statements.
Rob holds an Associate of the Canadian Condominium Institute (A.C.C.I.) designation, earned after demonstrating a high degree of condominium legal knowledge and experience. In November of 2009, Rob was elected President of the CCI Golden Horseshoe Chapter. He is also a member in good standing of the Toronto & London CCI Chapters, as well as A.C.M.O.
Robert also acts in the field of municipal law and land use development and has appeared on a variety of occasions before the Ontario Municipal Board on appeals ranging from proposed business park developments to minor variances. His Masters of Law focused solely in the area of Municipal Law.
Rob’s experience in civil litigation has brought him before a variety of administrative bodies and courts. He has acted on a variety of condominium enforcement proceedings, including compliance order applications and mediation & arbitrations. Blending the strengths of his experience, Rob was recently co-counsel on a leading condominium case which resulted in the court’s appointment of both an administrator and inspector, given the board’s oppressive conduct.
A strong supporter of volunteering and community leadership, Rob avidly contributes his professional and personal passions to local activities. He is a past-President of the Guelph Provincial P.C. Party Riding Association, and is a member of the Rotary Club of Guelph.
Rob graduated from the University of Guelph in 1995 with a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Studies. In the same discipline, he attended graduate studies at the University of Western Ontario. Following his graduate studies, he served as a political aide to the Honourable John C. Snobelen, Ontario’s former Minister of Education & Training, and served as the Director of External Operations for the Ontario P.C. Party. Rob continues to support a variety of candidates, notably serving as South-Western Ontario Leadership Campaign Co-ordinators for both the Honourable Ernie Eves, and the Honourable Tim Hudak, currently leader of Ontario’s Official Opposition. Robert received his LL.B. from the University of Windsor in 2002 and articled with the Toronto law firm of Cassels, Brock & Blackwell LLP, serving an extensive rotation with noted criminal defence lawyer Eddie Greenspan, Q.C. He returned to his home town of Guelph upon his call to the bar in 2003, and has now completed a Masters of Law (LL.M.) from Osgoode Hall Law School.