Steven Gaon is a bilingual lawyer, mediator and arbitrator with an extensive legal background, primarily as a civil and family law litigator, but also including administrative law, provincial offences and solicitor’s work. Practicing dispute resolution since 1998, Prof. Gaon founded ADR Ottawa Inc. in 2003. He has mediated thousands of legal and other cases. Prof. Gaon was awarded a Chartered Mediator designation by the ADR Institute of Canada in 2008. He is also an experienced arbitrator, having arbitrated and adjudicated a wide variety of legal disputes. Additionally, Prof. Gaon is a recognized and trusted workplace investigator, conducting administrative investigations into alleged harassment, breach of ethics, conflict of interest, regulatory violations, privacy and security matters, and other forms of misconduct.
Prof. Gaon has also been highly engaged in Ottawa’s legal community, serving as an elected member of the Board of Trustees of the County of Carleton Law Association (CCLA) from 2009 to 2017, as CCLA President in 2015-2016, and as an adjunct Law Professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law since 2018.