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Mr William Horton LL.B., FCIArb

Job title: Lawyer
Country: Canada

Membership type: Fellow membership
Primary branch: Canada
Disciplines: Arbitration, Mediation

Personal bio

Bill Horton practices as an arbitrator of international and Canadian business disputes. Prior to establishing his current practice, he served as head of litigation at two major Canadian law firms. He is former chair of the international litigation committee of the International Bar Association, a former co-chair of ADR Chambers' international and commercial arbitration panels, and a former executive member of ICC Canada. He served for 12 years as Editor in Chief of the Canadian Arbitration and Mediation Journal and until recently served as designer, director and principal instructor of the Gold Standard Course on Commercial Arbitration offered by the Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society. He chairs the Arbitration Act Reform Committee of TCAS. Bill has received awards for excellence in dispute resolution from the ADR Institute of Canada and the Ontario Bar Association.