Mark Birdsell

First Year of Call
2011

Areas of Practice
Personal Injury Law

Description
Mark Birdsell is a partner at Beard Winter and a member of the firm’s Insurance Litigation group. Mark received his JD from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in 2009. He was called to the bar in New York in 2010 and in Ontario in 2011. Since then, Mark has been working in insurance litigation. Prior to joining Beard Winter, Mark practised at a boutique insurance litigation firm in Toronto.

Mark represents insurers in a wide range of matters including commercial general liability, occupiers’ liability, motor vehicle accidents, product liability, subrogation, E&O and property damage disputes.

Mark focuses on taking proactive steps to advance the litigation and the interests of his clients. This ensures that Mark’s clients are placed in an advantageous position, whether that be in terms of resolution and settlement, or moving matters towards trial.

Mark also works as a mediator. He has extensive experience handling various types of insurance claims, both for plaintiffs and defendants. Mark believes that despite the adversarial nature of litigation, mediation gives the parties an opportunity to have an honest and confidential conversation about the issues in dispute.