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:: PRINTABLE PDF CV :: EDUCATION MEMBERSHIPS PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS, TEACHING AND VOLUNTEER SERVICEAlternate 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 who is based in Toronto, Canada. She mediates and investigates harassment, other employment disputes and whistleblower complaints in domestic and international workplaces. She holds the accreditations of Chartered Mediator (C.Med.) from the ADR Institute of Canada and Certified Mediator (Cert. Med.) from the International Mediation Institute. She has served on the governing bodies of ADRIC’s and the Canadian Bar Association’s Ontario branches.As a member of the faculty of the National Judicial Institute, she worked with superior and appellate court judges on settlement conference and pre-trial skills and was appointed to all mediator rosters for the program mandated by the Ontario Superior Court. She was named a founding arbitrator for Magna International’s external Employee Relations Advisory Board and worked as an Independent Third party Neutral for the Canada Customs and Revenue and the Canadian Food Inspection Agencies. She is the co-founder and the first President of ADR Web Inc., a company that provides searchable databases of mediators and arbitrators throughout North America. She is an Alternate Discrimination and Harassment Counsel for the Law Society of Upper Canada and was an Instructor for the Society in the Skills and Professional Responsibility Program. Her legal career started with the law firm of Blakes LLP, from where she went to the Federal Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, often called the Employment Equity Commission, headed by now-Supreme Court of Canada Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella. Following that, she worked with former Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau at Heenan Blaikie LLP in Montreal and returned to Toronto to establish her own firm. She is the author of two books on equity issues and of many other publications, a list of which can be found at www.lynnbevan.com, She is a Board member for Factory Theatre and the Learnx Foundation, a frequent public speaker and has hosted public radio programs on legal issues.
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