Mediator Profile

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Elaine Newman

Newman Arbitrations Inc.
Toronto, Ontario   M6C 1Y6

(416) 618-4413
elaine@newmanarb.com
www.newmanarb.com
Degrees/Designations - B.A., LL.B., LL.M.
Practice Areas - Employment, Human Rights and Labour
Practice Description - Elaine Newman has thirty-five years' experience as highly effective mediator and arbitrator, working primarily in the fields of wrongful dismissal, human rights, harassment in employment, and labour relations. In 2019 she received the Ontario Bar Association Award of Excellence for Dispute Resolution.

She is a leader in the education of mediators, and is the author of the Course "Practical Ethics Course for Working Mediators" provided by the ADR Institute of Ontario. She is a frequent speaker and an author. She is the former lead instructor of Dispute Resolution for Atkinson Faculty of York University, and Lead Instructor of the Queen's University Industrial Relations Centre. She was Associate Director of the LL.M. Program in Labour and Employment Law at Osgoode Hall Law School.

Elaine Newman's handbook on the prevention of workplace violence was published by Lancasterhouse in 2012.

Mrs. Newman employs an approach to mediation which is respectful of counsel. She will offer confidential neutral evaluation of a case when requested to do so, taking the view that legal advice is to come from counsel, and not the mediator.
Background - Called to the Bar in Ontario 1979.

Private practice - Minden Gross Grafstein Greenstein
Clinic practice - The Advocacy Resource Centre for the Handicapped
Private practice - Torkin Manes Cohen Arbus
Administrative Tribunal - General Counsel and Vice Chair WSIAT

Thirty-five years as a mediator and labour relations arbitrator.

Currently full time arbitrator and mediator, author, educator.

Member Ontario Labour Management Arbitrators' Association and the National Academy of Arbitrators.
Fees - Available on request.

Policy on fee reduction:

Mrs. Newman will perform mediation services at reduced rates where counsel are working at reduced rates.

Mrs. Newman will perform mediation services pro bono where counsel are working pro bono.