Family Mediation and Arbitration

Our accredited lawyer and social worker mediators and arbitrators can help you resolve the most challenging cases. We work together with you, lawyers and other professionals, effectively and affordably.

Parenting Mediation and Coordination

We work with parents, their children, extended families and professionals to help create the best possible parenting plan for each family. We provide skilled and experienced parenting coordination services to let parenting plans work best for the children.

Civil Mediation

From neighbour problems to education disagreements to family company conflict: we mediate a wide range of disputes with care and compassion. We understand what causes conflict and what helps resolve it.

Intern with Us

We have developed an internship program that gives new family
mediators exposure to all aspects of the practice. Learn from and with our diverse and experienced team of professionals, and gain
the skills and experience for accreditation.

Acclaimed Mediation Courses

We offer unique courses in family mediation, screening for power imbalances in negotiation, family arbitration, and family law. We receive top marks for dynamic and relevant content, diversity of trainers and quality of instruction/feedback. Most have approval for Law Society, OAFM and ADRIO.

Customized Training

We design and deliver custom workshops in mediation, negotiation and conflict resolution, for organizations, groups of lawyers and other professionals. We have many clients in Toronto but also in Ottawa, Kingston, Winnipeg and Nunavut, among others. Call us to design a workshop for your group.

Welcome to RIVERDALE MEDIATION

Our mission is to provide high quality mediation, arbitration and training services.

Our team of professionally accredited mediators have legal and social work backgrounds. We work closely with lawyers, their clients and other professionals to resolve the most challenging cases. Our Training program is nationally acclaimed, providing professionals with accreditation credentials.


Hilary Linton
Susan Jack
Elizabeth Hyde
Christine Kim

Our Dispute Resolution Services
We provide family and civil mediation, parenting coordination, and family mediation-arbitration. Our work is mostly referred by lawyers, and we are respected for our effective mediations with clients alone. We offer mediation/arbitration processes using one person, co-mediator-arbitrators or two different people for each phase. We will work closely with clients, their lawyers and other professionals to provide the right process, done the right way. We keep costs down, without sacrificing experience, professionalism, satisfaction or quality outcomes.

Our Training Services
We offer a unique series of Core Workshops for family and collaborative lawyers, mental health professionals, paraglegals, educators, business leaders and others. Designed to equip participants to gain mediation designations, our courses provide the theory, skills and experience required for effective conflict resolution. We follow up with a comprehensive internship program.

Custom Training
We will create customized training for small groups of 6 or more, designed to meet the needs of an organization or group of professionals. We focus on meaningful theory and effective skills — in negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and restorative justice — and address the difficult issues of power, gender, violence and mental illness, among others.

Our commitment to high standards and constant improvement is evident in all we do. We hope you enjoy our site.

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Upcoming COURSES

February 28, 29 & March 1, 2, 2012
Basic Family Law (30 hours)

A solid, understandable and engaging overview of Ontario family law, this course is for mental health professionals, paralegals, educators and others.

March 5, 2012
Update on Power Imbalances in Family Law Cases (10 hours)

This one-day intensive program is designed to provide the bi-annual training on “screening for power imbalances” in arbitration as required by Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General.

April 2 & 3, 2012
Power Imbalances in Family Law Cases (14 hours)

A course for collaborative and family lawyers, mediators, parenting coordinators, paralegals, educators and mental health professionals seeking to know more about the elements of power in intimate relationships.

May 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 2012
Basic Family Negotiation and Mediation (40 Hours)

A comprehensive five-day workshop designed for family and collaborative lawyers, mental health professionals, paralegals and educators.

View an overview of courses offered
From the BLOG

What’s New at RIVERDALE

Hilary Linton and the January term visiting faculty at the UWO FAculty of Law. Hilary taught “Family Law Dispute Resolution” for the month of January as the James G. McLeod memorial scholar. Jay was a revered family law scholar at UWO law and a beloved colleague within the Canadian family law community.

Elizabeth Hyde was a featured speaker November 21 at an Osgoode Hall Law School program on ADR in Practice. And Elizabeth is the new chair of the OBA-ADR Section Newsletter Committee– congratulations! Hilary Linton spoke at the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers Fall Conference on November 12, 2011.

Read about the new family mediation and information services in Toronto’s Superior Court. View the interview here in Lawyers Weekly.

NEWSLETTER

It’s our 10th Anniversary!
Check out our Summer 2011 newsletter.

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TESTIMONIALS

“Thank you so much for your support and assistance during the mediation and arbitration processes. We now are managing well, including our son. Thanks and best regards.”

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