Lynn Bevan is a lawyer, chartered mediator and investigator of workplace discrimination and harassment complaints on behalf of organizations in Canada and internationally. She is Alternate Discrimination and Harassment Counsel and was an Instructor in the Licensing Program for the Law Society of Upper Canada. She is the founder and was the first President of ADR Web Inc., a company that provides searchable databases of mediators and arbitrators throughout North America.

Her career started with Blakes LLP in Toronto, from where she went to the Federal Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, often called the Employment Equity Commission, headed by Justice Rosalie Abella. Following that, she worked with Pierre Trudeau at Heenan Blaikie LLP in Montreal and returned to Toronto to establish her own firm. She was named a founding arbitrator for Magna’s external Employee Relations Advisory Board and for the Canada Customs and Revenue and the Canadian Food Inspection Agencies. She instructs on dispute resolution at the National Judicial Institute and was appointed to the first roster of mediators for the program mandated by the Ontario court.

She is the author of two books on equity issues and of many other publications, an active volunteer, frequent public speaker and has hosted public radio programs on legal issues.

Lynn Bevan is also the founder of ADRWeb, Canada's first national online community of Mediators & Arbitrators.

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