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 of Pension Law, which won the 2007 Walter Owen Book Prize

for outstanding new contribution to Canadia n 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 mind fulness meditation and teaches these ski lls

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