Lynn Bevan, LL.B., Lawyer & Mediator, Toronto Ontario

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EDUCATION

  • 1972 - B.A. (Hon.) McGill University
  • 1975 - LL.B. Osgoode Hall Law School
  • 1977 - Call to the Ontario Bar
  • 2001 - Registered, Alberta Bar
  • 2004 - Chartered Mediator, ADR Institute of Canada

    • MEMBERSHIPS

    PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, TEACHING AND VOLUNTEER SERVICE

    Alternate Discrimination and Harassment Counsel Law Society of Upper Canada 2005 -

    Instructor, Skills and Professional Responsibility Law Society of Upper Canada 2007 -

    Faculty, National Judicial Institute Managing Settlement Conferences, Level II 2006

    Pre-Trial Settlement Skills for Superior Court Judges 1999

    ADR Institute of Ontario Inc. Chartered Mediator – 2004 Director – 2005-2006

    The Advocates’ Society Member 2004-

    Volunteer Lawyers Service, Pro Bono Law Ontario Volunteer - 2005 to present

    Learnx Foundation Director – 2005 and Member, Investment committee -

    The Philanthropist Editor 1980-1987, Editorial Advisory Board 1988 -

    Ontario Bar Association Member, Executive, ADR Section 1996-1999 Member of Council, 1990-1994 Co-Chair, Employment Equity Committee, 1993-1994 Speaker, Constitutional Speakers Bureau 1992 Chair, Constitutional &Civil Liberties Section 1991-2

    Human Resources Professionals Association of Ontario Member, Government Affairs Committee 1996- 1998

    Toronto Employment Equity Practitioners’ Association President Director Founder 1995-1996 1996 1987

    Regulations Development Advisory Group Ontario’s Employment Equity Act, 1993 Member, 1992

    International Commission of Jurists Member, National Council, (Canadian Section) 1990-3

    Canadian Human Rights Foundation Member, Board 1986-1988

    Radio Host CJRT’s Open Air College, Public Radio Series Pay Equity in Ontario 1988 The Law Belongs To You 1987

    Laskin Moot A bilingual, national, administrative law moot Founding Trustee 1985

    BIOGRAPHY TEXT

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

    Her career started with Blakes 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 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 group 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, a frequent public speaker and has hosted public radio programs on legal issues