Align Counselling and Mediation


Commercial Litigator, Self-Employed

Experienced commercial litigator in Toronto called in Ontario, Bangladesh and England and Wales.


Principal Owner, ADR Group

Mr Drake is a Senior Construction Executive and Principal with over 35 years of experience in the construction industry, mainly in major residential and commerical projects throughout Canada. Prior to founding Drake & Associates, Ralph previously held senior executive possitions with four major Contractors/Developers and his portfolio includes some of the most prestigious developments in the GTA & Canada. Having the skills and experience of being a professional quantity surveyor, chartered arbitrator with civil engineering has contributed to his sucess in all aspects of construction ...


Owner/Founder, Paul Di Clemente Workplace Investigations


Senior Associate, Stantec Consulting Ltd.

I am a design and construction senior project manager and facilitor with over 25 years experience in navigating complex stakeholder environements. With years of practical experience in mediating, officially or otherwise, disputes and conflict within projects, and extensive training in alternative dispute resolution, negotiation, and collaberative leadership, I bring both skills and experience to the table to help project parties settle or ideally avoid disputes and conflict.


Cudney Consulting, Coaching & Training

Neil has worked as an executive leader in the non-profit sector for over two decades. He has just recently started his own practice. His doctoral work is in leadership and organizational culture. He helps organizations and leaders to understand and engage organization value, visions, missions and core values. While in the sector, he developed and led an organizational strategy for conflict medition and resolution. He has a background in: Employee conflictChurch conflictFamily dynamics and conflictCreating and implementing organizations values, vision and missionEngaging organizational core ...


Principal, Rockwood Consulting


ODR & ADR Practitioner, AccFM OAFM OACP, Self Employed

Rita BurgoyneB.S.W. R.S.W., Member AFCC, OCSWSSW, Licensed Clinical Social Worker,Member AFCC , OCSWSSW, OASW, Acc. FM. OAFM, Original Dispute Resolution Practitioner, ADRPractitioner George Hull FGC Coordinator, Collaborative Law Family Specialist, OACP. Licensed New Ways for Families Counsellor/Coach Rita Burgoyne is an Accredited Family Mediator, certified Family Group Conference Coordinatorand Original Dispute Resolution Practitioner. Rita Burgoyne is also a licensed Clinical SocialWorker with more than 25 years experience working with Children and Families in the MentalHealth field. She ...


Synergetic Workplaces Consulting Incorporated


King City, ON

ADR Chambers

Jonathan Flanders, full-time mediator and arbitrator, has mediated over 2000 cases sincehis transition from a 20-year law practice to full-time mediation,including personal injury, insurance, product liability, property damage, libel, franchise, lease, employment, professional negligence, construction, contract, environmental, estates, business and real estate disputes.EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONSJonathan is a graduate of McGill University (B.Sc., 1975;B.C.L., 1978;LL.B., 1979) and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1981.Jonathan is a member of The Law Society of Upper Canada, ...


Alexandra grew up in a small bilingual town in Northern Ontario. She attended the University of Western Ontario and obtained her Bachelor of Arts in French and Spanish. She continued her studies at the University of Western Ontario Law School. Alexandra completed her year of articling in Stratford and fell in love with the beautiful City where she continues to live with her husband, and their young son.She was called to the bar in 2002 and has been a lawyer in Stratford since that time. She became a sole practitioner in 2006 and has built a successful law practice.Alexandra practices in the ...


Warren Morris is a non-practicing lawyer, who acts as a mediator, arbitrator, trainer, ombudsman and ADR consultant. Warren is an expert in commercial and workplace mediation. He has a unique ability to simplify complex matters and creates an atmosphere for resolving conflict. The ADR Institute of Canada has granted Warren the designation CHARTERED MEDIATOR (C.Med) in recognition of his experience, education and expertise in the field of mediation.Since 1999, Warren has successfully mediated numerous complex matters, ranging from multi-party financial reorganizations to sensitive workplace ...


Part-time Instructor, Durham College

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Principal, Eon Communications and Research


Principal Consultant, People and Strategy Consulting


Founding Partner, Ella Forbes-Chilibeck Professional Corp

EllaForbes-Chilibeck works as a mediator, lawyer and investigator in labour,employment, and human rights cases at the federal and provincial levels. Ellais a member of the ADR Institute of Ontario. Ella will complete the HarvardMediation Intensive program (Harvard Law School) in the fall of 2023 and thereceive her Certificate in Organizational Coaching (UBC) in the spring of 2024.Called to the Ontario Bar (2006) and the Nunavut Bar (2010), Ella has practicedexclusively in the areas of employment, labour and human rights both in privatepractice and in academia. Ella's approach to dispute ...


Loopstra Nixon LLP

Alan is an accomplished and versatile professional, with a strong background in business litigation.  A substantial portion of his practice has focused on the transportation and logistics industry for over 15 years, including commercial disputes, casualty claims, and product liability issues. Alan is a member of the bars of Ontario (2006) and British Columbia (2006).


The Desk Consulting Group Inc.


Essence Mediation

Clara Puskas Q.Med, WFAwww.essencemediation.com 


Roy McPhail is a mediator and arbitrator with ADR Chambers.Roy is a professional engineer (P. Eng.) with 48 years of experience in construction and construction dispute resolution serving both public and private sectors domestically and internationally. He has been a full time neutral since 2014 and has resolved a range of complex, multi-party disputes including delay claims, scope disputes, bid irregularities, construction defects, design errors, and contract disputes. Roy conducted the first construction adjudication in Canada as a Certified Adjudicator for the Ontario Dispute Adjudication ...


Partner, DMG Advocates LLP

Kathryn is a Founding Partner of DMG Advocates LLP, a Toronto-based commercial litigation boutique. She has broad expertise in all aspects of commercial litigation, particularly complex, multi-party litigation matters. Representing both organizations and individuals, her experience includes shareholder disputes, product liability litigation, complex contract disputes, civil fraud proceedings, employment litigation, professional negligence, and class actions.Representing clients both in the Ontario courts and in commercial arbitration proceedings, Kathryn provides her clients with practical, ...


Treena is a Trauma Informed Qualified Mediator with an Exec Certification in Conflict Management (Windsor Law School/SHG). She possess a BA (U of Manitoba), BSW (U of Victoria) with a clinical mental health specialty.. She is a Board Member of the Alternate Dispute Institute of Ontario & member of ADR Canada,. She also holds the designations of Certified Workplace Fairness Analyst (WFA), Psychological Health & Safety Advisor, ISO 45003 Certified, Critical lncident Stress Management Certified, Certified Trauma Coach, Diversified Dispute Analyst, and is affliated with the Workplace ...


Southwestern Ontario ADR


Loudon Mediations

A Senior Litigation Lawyer and Collaborative Mediator with extensive expertise in disability and life insurance litigation. Known for adding significant value by combining legal proficiency, industry knowledge, and business acumen to influence key stakeholder decisions. Applies objectivity, sound judgement, and negotiation skills to successfully resolve insurance disputes. Cultivates enduring relationships with clients, colleagues, and counsel through honesty, integrity, and commitment to excellence. Excellent listener and communicator with an interest in helping people identify ...


Ultimacy International Inc.

Qualified Arbitrator – 35 Years of Practical Experience and Senior Leadership - Guelph / KW / Cambridge / Hamilton / Burlington / Milton Acting in his positions ascorporate president and other senior executive roles, Rob has demonstrated high business acumen and combines this with years of tested judgement for his role as arbitrator. His attainment of senior levels of leadership grew from his capacity to gain insight and recognize patterns across complex situations. His background is anchored in strong listening and credibility evaluation, assessing information objectively, and the ability to ...


Lawyer, Mediator, Dervaitis Loch Law Professional Corporation

Rebecca Dervaitis Loch, B.A., M.A., LLB., is a mediator at Dervaitis Loch Law Professional Corporation in Toronto, and mediates across Ontario both virtually and in-person.She offers half day (3 hour) mediations at the roster rate, as determined by the Rules of Civil Procedure, as well as full day (7 hour) and hybrid (5 hour) mediation sessions. Rebecca is also a member in good standing of the Law Society of Ontario and was called to the bar in 2007.Prior to opening her mediation and litigation practice, Rebecca was a partner at a boutique Toronto law firm practicing exclusively in the area ...


Licensed Paralegal / Owner, Arkhon Paralegal Professional Corporation


Partner, Dentons Canada LLP

Chloe Snider is a partner in Dentons’ Litigationand Dispute Resolution and Transformative Technologies groups. Herpractice focuses on litigating complex commercial disputes and assistingclients manage risk. She is a strategic and critical legal thinker who worksefficiently to develop practical solutions for her clients.Chloe's practice includes a focus on arbitrations and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. 


Consultant

I have a 38 year career in the Canadian institutional, commercial industrial construction industry. I worked my way up through the operations side of the industry holding positions of superintendent, project manager, cheif estimator, vice president and president, where I owned and managed a $750 million contracting company. I have deep operational experience in fixed price, design build, construction managment and P3 contracts as well as bidding and tendering work. In Ontario, I am a certified adjudicator under the new Construction Act and an expert on prompt payment and adjudication. 


Chris has been a commercial/civil litigator with over 20 years of experience handling hundreds of cases involving construction law (construction lien actions, breach of trust and delay claims), commercial law (including breach of contract cases and priority claims as between secured and unsecured creditors), disputes arising from real estate transactions (including title insurance claims), professional negligence claims, commercial landlord and tenant disputes, mortgages, bankruptcy, partnership and shareholder disputes. Chris has conducted trials before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice ...


WeirFoulds LLP

JeffCowan practices litigation law with emphasis in public and real estate law. Heappears regularly before tribunals and all courts with particular emphasis inthe fields of land use planning, development, municipal and environmental law,and all aspects of real property law, including acquisition, leasing and leaseinterpretation, expropriation, valuation, contracts for purchase and sale,boundary and ownership disputes, municipal assessment and property taxation andland claims by First Nations. He has been counsel to provincial ministries andadministrative tribunals, municipalities, ratepayers’ ...


Accord Alternative Dispute Resolution Inc.

Mr. Hachinski is a Toronto-based mediator and commercial arbitrator with over 25 years of experience in executive and senior advisory roles in large cap and smaller, high-growth companies. In these roles he was responsible for complex product and service portfolios ranging from 7 to 9 figures and developed a reputation for negotiating successful partnerships and alliances among different organizations. Through navigating and resolving commercial disputes, he developed an affinity for ADR as a timely, practical, and cost-effective option to resolve issues that arise in business and in life. He ...


Aireen Grey Consulting

Top of the day, my name is Abiola (ah-bee-oh-lah) and I'm delighted you are reading this .I am ahighly skilled and detail-oriented internationally trained legal practitioner, with over 17 years of combined experience in legal practice, contract management and dispute resolution.My expertise in these fields make up some of the tools, whichI deploy in facilitating effective communication and mutually successful outcomes for parties.I have been mediating in Ontario since 2020. My areas of practice include,early neutral evaluations,home owners mediation, contractual disputes, peer mediation and ...


JKR LAWYERS

Jonathon Kahane Rapport studied Internatonal Relations and Political Science at the University of Toronto and went on to complete Western Law School in 1995. At Western Jonathon co-founded the Dispute Resolution Centre to help the London community with alternative dispute resolution services. Since being called to the Ontario Bar in 1996 Jonathon practised law in the area of civil litigation and primarily insurance litigation focussing on tort, LTD, Accident Benefit, loss transfer and priority dispute claims. Jonathon has successfully tried numerous cases and arbitrations at all levels and in ...


Martyn Dispute Resolution Services


President, Sullivan Mediations

JOSEPH J. SULLIVAN, C.S.JosephSullivan was called to the Ontario Bar in 1984 and certified as a Specialist in Civil Litigation by the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1992. He graduated in 1982 from Osgoode Hall LawSchool. In May 2020, he completed the ADRIC Correspondence Course inArbitration.He hasacted for both insurers and plaintiffs in tort, accident benefits and disabilityclaims. He nowoperates Sullivan Mediations and provides mediation and arbitration services acrossOntario focusing primarily in the insurance, personal injury, accidentbenefits, employment and commercial litigation ...


Heather Swartz Conflict Management Services Inc.


Crista’s drive to create sustainable success in entrepreneurial endeavours, especially those with a social purpose, is based on understanding how innovation flourishes, how marketing creates value and how teams build success through open and confident communications and relationships.As a business advisor with founders and co-founders at University of Waterloo’s Velocity Garage and The Problem Lab, Crista helps sustainable and social impact companies identify market fit, target markets and key messaging to support a strategic entry to market. She is also a sessional professor at Conestoga ...


Shibley Righton LLP

Wanda Shreve is a workplace lawyer, investigator, mediator and trainer, and principal of Wanda Shreve HR Law, Investigation & ADR Services.With a career spanning over 20 years, Wanda practiced management-side labour and employment law at a national firm before holding senior roles in private and public sector organizations.Wanda leverages the breadth of her experience to advise employers on matters related to compliance, workplace culture, ethical conduct and employee relations. Her clients appreciate her ability to provide legal advice with a leadership lens: her guidance is pragmatic, ...


Conclude Mediation and Arbitration Inc.


Genge Construction Adjudications

Jerry is a Chartered Arbitrator, Qualified Mediator, ODACC Adjudicator, and Professional Engineer specializing in construction disputes and professional negligence claims.  He has an advanced certificate as an adjudicator for administrative boards and tribunals and more thah 45 years experience.  Jerry believes that a quick, thorough, and cost effective resolution is teh best solution to all disputes.  Jerry also provide Early Nuetral Evaluations to assess the merits of a claim or defense.  www.arbitech.ca416.200.2651


bd Investigations

Following a two-decade progressive career in Human Resources and Labour Relations roles in both public and private sectors and in both unionized and non-unionized environments, wherein she advised and strategically partnered with senior and executive management on workplace matters (e.g. investigations, grievances, terminations, recruitment, etc.), and fuelled by a passion for the human side of business, Tova established Sage HR Consulting Inc. in 2017. Tova then recognized a growing demand for trustworthy, professional independent workplace investigations stemming from employers’ statutory ...


Dr. Karina Kowalis the principal of Medicolegal Resolutions and has been a mediator and arbitrator with the Financial Services Commission of Ontario (FSCO) via ADR Chambers and an adjudicator with the Licence Appeal Tribunal (LAT) since 2012, conducting thousands of mediations over the years and issuing many decisions.She obtained her LLM in health law and ADR from Osgoode Hall and a graduate degree in medicolegal expertise and insurance medicine from the Universite de Montreal. Dr. Kowal is also trained as a medical doctor (M.D.). She is board certified by the American Medical Association in ...


Murray Mediation Services


Investigator / Mediator, Benard + Associates


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Wise Health Law Professional Corporation


Fred Berenbaum Mediation Services


Over 35 years of experience in negotiations, claims settlements, Performance Management, Dispute/Conflict Resolution & Restoration, Workplace Fairness Analysis, Organizational Development, organization and manpower Performance Management, Business Strategy, Program Development, harmonization of multi- cultural multi- ethnicity manpower, Executive, Corporate and Shareholders, etc. (www.adrbridge.com)


Adjudicate.ca

ROBERT BALES, P.Eng., LL.B. 1041 Harkness Avenue, Ottawa ON K1V 6N9 t. 613-731-2129 e. rob.bales@adjudicate.ca www.adjudicate.ca CONSTRUCTION BACKGROUND, SKILL, AND EXPERIENCE Robert Bales has a wide variety of experience as an engineer, project manager and builder, and has many years’ experience as a lawyer in construction and real estate. Regarding civil construction, Mr. Bales has experience with road planning and construction including aerial photogrammetry and surveys; excavation; rock removal and blasting, grading and asphalt, water, sewer and storm water services; weather delays and ...


Founder - Lawyer, Leslie J. Smith Professional Corporation

Ontario Call: 1988. Practice Restricted to Employment Law, Mediation, Arbitration. Graduate of Toronto Commercial Arbitration Society - Gold Standard Course - June 2020.Deputy Judge Halton Country since 2003. Practise experience since 1988 - Personal Injury, Insurance Law, Employment Law, Disability Claims, Civil Litigation, Real Estate Transactions, Estate Planning / Administration, Information and Privacy Law. Have given numerous papers, lectures, webinars, seminars, to lawyers and non-lawyers on Civility / Ethics and Employment Law. Author of an employment law guidebook for non-lawyers ...


Angela A. Bradley Workplace Investigation and Mediation


Mediator/Lawyer, Owner of SLD Virtual Mediation, SLD Virtual Mediation

sldvirtualmediation.ca I am an Ottawa-based lawyer/mediator providing online mediation services for disputes in the following areas: Workplace disputesLandlord/Tenant disputesEstate disputesProperty disputesUnpaid debtsContractual disputesFamily law (divorce/separation)


Harrison ADR Professional Corporation


Guide Mediation


Marna Shecter Consulting Inc.


Ron Kanter Dispute Resolution


Independent Consultant

Fosteringsanctuary & well-being: in relationships, in community, & acrossinstitutions.About As a past social services Executive Director, I’ve collaborated with funders, staff, boards, volunteer teams, and community members (including program recipients), to stabilize three charitable nonprofits and prepare them for sustainable growth. Together, we clarified purpose, prioritized strategic tasks, recovered from financial crisis, stabilized funding, retooled policies, fortified each other, strengthened agency relationships, upgraded facilities, developed participant-informed programs, ...


Innovative Dispute Resolution Ltd.

An internationally recognized expert in sports law and arbitration, Professor Richard McLaren has spent his career working at the highest levels to protect the integrity of sports. Professor McLaren is involved in the adjudication of sports-related disputes at both the amateur and professional level. As a member and Arbitrator of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), he has arbitrated key sport cases around the world. As an Ad Hoc Panel Member of CAS, he has participated in five Olympic Games during which he resolved disputes pertaining to anti-doping, athlete eligibility and intellectual ...


Office Managing Partner, Cozen O'Connor

Pamela D. Pengelley is the managing partner of Cozen O'Connor LLP's Toronto Office. She specialises in the practice of complex commercial/industrial property loss litigation and arbitration, with a focus on energy, mining and conominimum construction losses. Pamela is called to the bar in Ontario (2006), British Columbia (2011) and Alberta (2011).Pamela has been the recipient of numerous honors including the 2009 David Stockwood Memorial Prize for an advocacy-themed article, the 2008/2009 Marilyn L. Pilkington Award for outstanding academic performance in the LL.M. program, the Canadian Law ...


founder, Lightstone Academy for Conflict Resolution

Delighted!


Besunder Dispute Resolution


Mark Hart has over 20 years of experience as a mediator, adjudicator and investigator, with a focus on human rights, employment and labour issues.Most recently, Mark was a Vice-Chair at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario for 12 years from 2007 to 2019, where he conducted hundreds of mediations and hearings primarily in the employment and labour sectors. He has written hundreds of decisions, including leading decisions on a variety of human rights, employment and labour issues.As a mediator, Mark uses an analytical and evaluative approach, while looking for common interests and creative ...


Mediate.ca - Brannigan ADR

Colm Brannigan has been an independent mediator and arbitrator for over 20 years.Colm works with clients and their lawyers to manage and resolve disputes in a timelyand efficient manner using mediation, med-arb and arbitration. Basedin the GTA, Colm has a province wide practice and is an acknowledged expert inthe use of the innovative med-arb process and online dispute resolution.Colm's recognizes that clients need results for the time, money and effort they spend on dipsute resolution in order to help them feel comfortable with both process and outcome.Colm works collaboratively and ...


Manager, Employee & Labour Relations, The City of Mississauga


MORROW MEDIATION

Bernard Morrow is the principal of Morrow Mediation, a Toronto area based full-service alternative dispute resolution (ADR)firm. Bernard has been successfully providing fair and balanced dispute resolution services at a sensible price since 1994. In addition to conducting his ADR practice, Bernard was appointed the Complaints Resolution Commissioner for the LawSociety of Ontario for a two-year term commencing April 1, 2014. He was re-appointed for a second two-year termcommencing April 1, 2016. The Commissioner performs an ombuds role, independently reviewing complaints againstlawyers and ...


Niels brings to his mediation and arbitration practice a wealth of traditional and alternative dispute resolution expeience as a result of his background as a member of the Litigation Group at McCarthy Tetrault for almost 40 years. Having appeared at all levels of the courts and before many administrative tribunals and public inquiries, Niels understands the challenges and pitfalls as well as the uncertainties, delays and costs associated with the litigation process, and the potential benefits that can be realized through a mediated or arbitrated resolution. He also understands that the ...