EDUCATION

• 1983 Called to the Bar in Ontario - Law Society of Upper Canada
• 1981 LL. B. - Osgoode Hall Law School
• 1979 B.A. - Queen's University

• Certified as Comprehensive Family Mediator with Family Mediation Canada.
• Certified as a Chartered Mediator with Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Ontario.
• Certified as an Accredited Family Mediator with Ontario Association for Family Mediation.

• Practice restricted to Collaborative Practice and Mediation
• Adjunct Professor of Collaborative Lawyering - Osgoode Hall Law School
• Trainer in the Collaborative Process and Communication and Negotiation Skills across Canada and Internationally
• Member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Collaborative Practitioners
• Member of the Law Society of Upper of Canada, Ontario Bar Association (Family Law and Alternate Dispute Resolution subsections), Family Mediation Canada, Ontario Association for Family Mediation, the ADR Institute of Canada Inc., and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.

PUBLICATIONS AND SEMINARS

Publications and Articles

• Divorce without the Devastation: The Marks News, December 16, 2009
• Mediation or Collaboration, which is for you? The Joy of an Ex, Divorce Choices Inc., 2009
• Is Going to Court is the Only Way to Ensure You'll Get your Fair Share, Divorce Magazine, Winter, 2004
• Collaborative Law: Promises and Challenges, Interaction, December, 2003
• Failure to Understand and Prioritize Your and Your Ex's Interests, Divorce Magazine, Summer, 2003
• Collaborative Family Law: Our Experience So Far (with Sharon Cohen) Matrimonial Affairs, March, 2003
• Collaborative Family Law, Another Way to resolve Family Disputes, coauthored with Richard Shields and Judith Ryan, Thomson Carswell, 2003
• Collaborative Family Law Peel Briefs, May 2002
• Collaborative Law - More of the Same or a Quantum Leap? Matrimonial Affairs, April, 2002
• Collaborative Law - A Humane Approach to Resolving Family Disputes - Institute of Law Clerks' Ontario Newsletter, March, 2002

Presenter at numerous conferences to Family Lawyers and Trainers, Collaborative Professionals:

• I.A.C.P. Forum, October 2010 - Washington, DC
• I.A.C.P. Forum, October 2009 - Minneapolis, Minnesota
• I.A.C.P. Forum, October 2008 - Toronto, Ontario - Ontario Collaborative Negotiation
• I.A.C.P. Forum, October 2008 - Toronto, Ontario - Mediation and Collaborative Practice, Allies at Last
• I.A.C.P. Forum, October 2005, Atlanta - Achieving Competence and Confidence in Negotiation (with Sherri Goren Slovin)
• Professional Women's Symposium, September 2005 - Collaborative Practice
• Law Clerks Institute, December 2004 - Negotiation Skills (with Richard Shields)
• I.A.C.P. Forum, October 2004 - Boston - Bringing The Law Into the Collaborative Process (with Karen Levitt)
• National Family Law Conference, July 2004 - Quebec - Collaborative Family Law and Miglin-Proofing Separation Agreements (with Judith Huddart)
• Ontario Collaborative Law Federation Conference, October 2003 - Managing Strong Emotion (with June Maresca)
• I.A.C.P. Forum, October 2003 - Vancouver - Challenging Clients
• Law Clerks Institute, 2003 - Collaborative Law Primer
• ADR: Principles, Process and Practice, Ontario Bar Association, May 22, 2002
• Collaborative Law and Collaborative Lawyering, Osgoode Hall Law School, November 2001
• CFL-A Legal Revolution, Law Society of Upper Canada, December 2000

• 2010 Family Arbitration and Domestic Violence Screening Workshop – Philip Epstein, Alf Mamo, Hilary Linton, and Peter Jaffe
• 2009 Collaborative Trainers Workshop – Rick Shields
• 2008 Interdisciplinary Team Workshop – Angie Bain, Scott Clarke, and Linda Solomon
• January 2006 Advanced Collaborative Practice Training – Bernie Mayer
• October 2004 Transforming Your Group to Interdisciplinary Practice, Nancy Cameron and Susan Gamache
• October 2004 Difficult Conversations - Jeffrey Kerr
• April 2004 Communication Strategies - Deborah Pearce
• March 2004 Narrative Mediation - John Winslade
• February 2004 The Heart of Mediation - Bernie Mayer
• May 2003 Advanced Collaborative Family Law Training - Chip Rose
• 2002 Advanced Collaborative Family Law Training with Pauline Tesler and Chip Rose
• 2002 Intermediate Collaborative Family Law Training - Pauline Tessler
• 2000 Advanced Family Mediation Training - Judith Ryan and Helen Gouge
• 2000 Caught In the Middle: Families of High Conflict Divorce - Carla Garrity and Mitch Baris November 9 and 10, 2000
• 2000 Advanced Family Mediation Training Program - Law Society of Upper Canada
• 2000 Collaborative Family Law Training - Chip Rose
• 1999 Estates Law for Mediators - Strategy Institute
• 1999 Workplace Conferencing Facilitators Workshop - Transformative Justice Australia
• 1999 Mediation and Domestic Violence Conference - Family Mediation Canada
• 1998 Getting to Yes Negotiation Workshop - with Roger Fisher of Harvard University and Conflict Management Group and the Advocates Society
• 1997 Advanced Mediation Workshop - Osgoode Hall Law School
• 1997 Divorce and Custody Mediation Training Program - CDR Associates, Boulder, Colorado
• 1991 Advanced Family Mediation Training Program - Family Mediation Service of Ontario
• 1990 Family Mediation Training Program - Family Mediation Service of Ontario (under the instruction of Bob McWhinney, Dr. Clive Chamberlain, Resa Eisen, Helen Goudge and Judith Ryan)