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Welcome to Riverdale Mediation
Riverdale Mediation is one of Toronto’s largest full-service ADR firms. Our team of professionally accredited mediators offers the skills and experience you need to work through difficult disputes. We also provide nationally acclaimed training to individuals, groups and organizations.
Our family mediation department has lawyers and social workers available to mediate, mediate-arbitrate and provide parenting coordination services. We also provide mediation in civil disputes relating to employment, partnerships, family businesses, neighbour and community disputes. We provide effective restorative justice conferencing for large, complex and emotionally difficult cases.
Our custom-training group will design and deliver workshops in a wide range of topics related to mediation, arbitration, negotiation, family law, and addressing issues of power, gender, violence and mental illness in mediation, negotiation and arbitration.
We also deliver regularly scheduled courses for those seeking accreditation as family mediators and arbitrators, including the required courses in Basic and Advanced Family Mediation and Screening for Power Imbalances Including Domestic Violence.
Hilary Linton will be speaking on “The Future of Mediation and Arbitration” at the second annual conference hosted by the Ontario chapter of the AFCC, October 14-15. To register, please visit the AFCC Ontario website.
Associate Kim James has been named to the Board of Directors of the Ontario Association of Family Mediation. Congratulations Kim! http://www.oafm.on.ca/
Associate Christine Kim will be a presenter at the Brampton Courthouse for the Mandatory Information Sessions.
Intern Elizabeth Hyde is starting the LL.M. program in ADR at Osgoode Hall Law School this fall.
Intern Victoria Starr has completed her internship and is applying for accreditation with the OAFM. Congratulations Victoria!
Assistant Valérie Siébert completed the intensive ADR course at York University this summer.
Associate Christine Kim will be taking the Parenting Coordination Foundations. She and fellow associate Kim James will be taking the Parenting Coordination Advanced course this Fall through Family Solutions Toronto.
The Ontario Court of Appeal has given a boost to parents seeking joint custody of their children.
A trial judge awarded joint custody and equal parenting time for both parents of ... continue reading
One of my favourite tools is Skype. I use it to stay in touch with my daughter at university; with friends around the world; and to conduct mediations where one ... continue reading
The always-hot topic of post-divorce parenting time is once again in the news.
The Canadian Bar Association is speaking out against a Conservative bill that seeks to make 50-50 time sharing ... continue reading
Welcome to Riverdale Mediation
Riverdale Mediation is one of Toronto’s largest full-service ADR firms. Our team of professionally accredited mediators offers the skills and experience you need to work through difficult disputes. We also provide nationally acclaimed training to individuals, groups and organizations.
Our family mediation department has lawyers and social workers available to mediate, mediate-arbitrate and provide parenting coordination services. We also provide mediation in civil disputes relating to employment, partnerships, family businesses, neighbour and community disputes. We provide effective restorative justice conferencing for large, complex and emotionally difficult cases.
Our custom-training group will design and deliver workshops in a wide range of topics related to mediation, arbitration, negotiation, family law, and addressing issues of power, gender, violence and mental illness in mediation, negotiation and arbitration.
We also deliver regularly scheduled courses for those seeking accreditation as family mediators and arbitrators, including the required courses in Basic and Advanced Family Mediation and Screening for Power Imbalances Including Domestic Violence.
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The Ontario Court of Appeal has given a boost to parents seeking joint custody of their children. A trial judge awarded joint custody and equal parenting time for both parents of ... continue reading
One of my favourite tools is Skype. I use it to stay in touch with my daughter at university; with friends around the world; and to conduct mediations where one ... continue reading
The always-hot topic of post-divorce parenting time is once again in the news. The Canadian Bar Association is speaking out against a Conservative bill that seeks to make 50-50 time sharing ... continue reading