John McNamee has been an arbitrator and mediator since 2007. He is a graduate of Concordia University (B.A. 1973) and Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B. 1977). Following his call to the bar in 1978, he practised labour law full-time for 29 years as a partner in a small firm, and as counsel to a trade union. He also taught labour law for two years as a part-time instructor at Humber College, and served as chair of the Board of Directors of one Labour Sponsored Venture Capital Corporation, and as a member of the board of directors of another.