Pension Law, 3/e

Ari Kaplan is principal of Kaplan Law, Canada’s first law firm specializing 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 Canadian legal literature. He is Canada’s first Qualified Mediator with expertise in pension 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 Law Foundation of Ontario; and past chair of the Ontario Bar Association, Pension & Benefits Section. He is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, 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 chair of the pensions and employment practice at Torys LLP and the chancellor of Ontario Tech University. His law practice focuses on all aspects of pension, benefits, and employment. He is the founder of the National Institute on Ageing at Ryerson University, a former adjunct professor at both the University of Toronto Faculty of Law and Osgoode Hall Law School, and a published author. Mitch is also chair of the TFS Foundation Board of Directors, the immediate past chair of Ryerson University’s Board of Governors, the immediate past chair of the North York General Foundation Board of Governors, and a former member of the Board of Trustees of the Ontario Science Centre. He was the recipient of Wilfrid Laurier University’s MBA Outstanding Executive Leadership Award, Western University Law School’s Ivan Rand Alumni Award, a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, the Ted Rogers School of Management Honorary Alumni Award, the Ontario Bar Association’s Award of Excellence in Pension and Benefits Law, and was named one of the twenty-five most influential lawyers in Canada by Canadian Lawyer magazine.