Graham Clarke was appointed a Vice-Chair of the Canada Industrial Relations Board on April 23, 2007. A member of the bars of Ontario and Quebec since 1987, Graham started practising labour law in Montreal. In 1988, he became legal counsel to the Canada Labour Relations Board's first Chair, Mr. Marc Lapointe. After leaving the Board, Graham published the loose-leaf book Canada Labour Relations Board: An Annotated Guide (Aurora: Canada Law Book, 1992). He is also the author of Clarke's Canada Industrial Relations Board (Aurora: Canada Law Book, 1999), which was published following the 1999 amendments to the Canada Labour Code. From 1990 to 2007, Graham represented private sector clients in both official languages before a wide range of administrative tribunals and courts.