 He was also a Special Lecturer in Property Law in the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto from 1972 to 1977.From 1977 to 1981, he was the Deputy Attorney General of Ontario, the head civil servant in the department which is similar to a Deputy Minister, during the negotiation of the Trudeau era constitutional reforms which led to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.He contributed to Roy McMurtry's reputation as a law reformer and was intimately involved in the province's family law reforms.