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John-Paul E. Boyd is an accredited family law arbitrator, family law mediator and parenting coordinator, a member of the bars of Alberta and British Columbia, and counsel to the preeminent Calgary family law firm Wise Scheible Barkauskas.

John-Paul practiced family law in Vancouver for 14 years before taking a position as the executive director of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family, a non-profit organization affiliated with the University of Calgary, in 2013. He took his training as a mediator in 2005, as a parenting coordinator in 2007, as an arbitrator in 2011 and as a collaborative practitioner in 2012. He returned to private practice, providing services throughout Alberta and British Columbia, in 2018 and was appointed Queen’s Counsel in British Columbia in 2019.

John-Paul is a member of the ADR Institute of Canada, Family Mediation Canada, the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts and the Canadian Bar Association, and a former fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers. He presently serves on the board of directors of Family Mediation Canada, the executive committee of the CBA’s Child & Youth Law Section and the CBA Alberta’s Access to Justice Committee. He is a juror of the Walter Owen Book Prize, awarded by the Canadian Foundation for Legal Research, and the Allan Falconer Memorial Essay Contest, awarded by the Canadian Journal of Family Law.