Thomas Corbett

Biography

Tom Corbett was born in St. Catharines, Ontario. He obtained a chemical engineering degree, with environmental engineering courses, from Queens University, Ontario, in 1974 and his law degree from the University of British Columbia in 1978. He practiced law in Vancouver from 1978 until he moved to London, Ontario in 1989.

David Thompson and Tom Corbett moved together from McCarthy Tetrault to jointly found the firm of Thompson Corbett in 1996. In 2005, the firm changed its name to Advocates LLP.

In the 1990s, Tom Corbett taught environmental law at the University of Western Ontario law school. He was a member of the environmental committee of the London & District Construction Association and for many years has been a director of the London Centre for Health, Safety and Environment, a corporation created under the auspices of the London Chamber of Commerce for the purposes of delivering environmental education to business in south-western Ontario. He has repeatedly spoken before a variety of audiences on environmental topics including due diligence, environmental management systems, defence of prosecutions, appeals of Ministry orders and trends in environmental legislation.

Tom has also presented papers on corporate and commercial litigation matters, including presentations to the Ontario Bar Association on shareholders remedies associated with the winding up of privately held corporations and on the liability of directors and officers

Outside the practice of law, Tom is active in sports, now primarily skiing and playing and coaching lacrosse.