About the Authors

• Author: Ari Kaplan/Mitch Frazer
• Pages: 681-682

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Ari Kaplan is principal of Kaplan Law, Canada’s f‌irst law f‌irm special-

izing in pensions and benef‌its dispute resolution. He authored the f‌irst

edition ofPension Law, which won the 2007 Walter Owen Book Prize

for outstanding new contribution to Canadian legal literature. He is

Canada’s f‌irst Quali f‌ied Mediator with expertise in p ension and benef‌its

law. He is a past assistant professor at Western University; past adjunct

professor at the University of Toronto; past appointee of the Attorney

General to the Board of Trustees of the L aw Foundation of Ontario; and

past chair of the Ontario Bar Association, Pension & Benef‌its Section.

He is a member of the Law Society of Ont ario, ADR Institute of Canada

and a founding member of the Family Dispute Resolution Institute of

Ontario. He practices mindfulness meditation and teaches these skills

to lawyers and others. BA (Hons), McGill (1994); LLB, Osgoode (1997),

LLM, Osgoode (2001); QMed, ADRIC (2015).

Mitch Frazer is a partner and the cha ir of the pensions and employment

practice at Torys LLP and the chancellor of Ontar io Tech University. His

law practice focuses on all a spects of pension, benef‌its, and employment.

He is the founder of the National Institute on Ageing at Ryerson Univer-

sity, a former adjunct professor at both the Universit y of Toronto Faculty

of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School, and a published author. Mitch is

also chair of t he TFS Foundation Board of Directors, the immed iate past

chair of Ryerson University’s Board of Gover nors, the immediate past chai r

of the North York General Foundation Board of Governors, and a former