Allan is the President and CEO of ADR Chambers, the largest, private alternative dispute resolution service provider in the world. ADR Chambers has administered over 55,000 mediations and arbitrations since 2012.

Allan is a mediator, arbitrator, negotiation consultant, facilitator, trainer, and ADR systems design specialist. Allan is both a Chartered Mediator (C.Med.) and a Chartered Arbitrator (C.Arb.). He has mediated two-party and multi-party disputes in numerous contexts, including commercial, employment, corporate governance, workplace, banking, personal injury, sports, entertainment and breach of contract. He has also arbitrated numerous commercial cases including cases for the National Transportation Agency and the Ontario Farm Products Marketing Board. His book on ADR systems design, ADR For Organizations, and Mediating Commercial Disputes, were both business books bestsellers. He also wrote Mediation: A Practical Guide and he is the Editor-in-Chief of the LexisNexis ADR Practice Manual.

He was an Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Law School between 1992 and 2018, and has been a Special Lecturer at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, a Lecturer at the University of Notre Dame, the University of Lisbon (Portugal), and the University of the Philippines. He has taught ADR and Negotiation courses throughout North America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia with the Stitt Feld Handy Group, a division of ADR Chambers.

After earning his B.Comm at the University of Toronto, Allan earned his LL.B. at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law and his J.D. at the University of Detroit Law School, graduating first in his class in both law schools. He then earned his LL.M. degree at Harvard Law School. Until 1994, he was a litigator at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt.

While at Harvard Law School in 1992, Allan studied negotiation and ADR with Professor Roger Fisher, Professor Frank Sander, and Bruce Patton. He has returned to Harvard on a number of occasions to act as a Teaching Assistant to Professor Fisher. Allan is on the Board of Governors for The Abraham Global Peace Initiative and an Honourary Member of the Advisory Board for the Institute of Chartered Mediators and Conciliators in Kenya. Allan was a Canadian delegate to UNCITRAL for negotiations leading up to the Singapore Convention for the enforcement of international mediation agreements and a Canadian delegate for UNCITRAL that developed Model Expedited Arbitration Rules for international disputes. He is the Past President of the ADR Institute of Canada, the Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Canada, the Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Ontario and the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC). Allan is a Distinguished Fellow of the International Academy of Mediators and a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Allan is listed on several rosters as a mediator and arbitrator including the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (Lausanne, Switzerland), the International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the Canadian Transportation Agency, the Singapore International Mediation Centre, the Japan International Mediation Centre, the Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Arbitration Court and the Vienna International Arbitral Centre.

Allan has been awarded the Ontario Bar Association Award of Excellence in Alternative Dispute Resolution. In 2022, he was awarded an honourary Doctor of Laws from the University of Windsor Faculty of Law and was awarded the 2022 Windsor Law Dual JD Distinguished Alumni Award.  Allan is listed in The International Who’s Who of Commercial Mediation, The Best Lawyers in Canada in ADR, and Who’s Who Legal: Thought Leaders – Global Elite 2023, 2024, and 2025. He has designed ADR systems for such organizations as the Canadian Bankers Association, the Ontario Human Rights Commission, the Law Society of Upper Canada, and Canadian Tire Corporation.

• B.Comm at the University of Toronto
• LL.B. at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law
• J.D. at the University of Detroit Law School, graduating first in his class in both law schools
• LL.M. at Harvard Law School

• Canadian delegate for UNCITRAL, for the Singapore Convention for the enforcement of international mediation agreements; also with the Working Group that developed expediated arbitration rules for international disputes and adjudication rules
• International Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
• Past President of the ADR Institute of Canada and Member since 1996
• Member, Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Canada
• Member, Arbitration and Mediation Institute of Ontario
• Arbitrator and Mediator, Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada (SDRCC); past Chair of the Board 2003-2009
• Distinguished Fellow, International Academy of Mediators (IAM)
• Arbitrator and Mediator, Court of Arbitration for Sport (Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Arbitrator, International Panel of Arbitrators, International Centre for Dispute Resolution (AAA/ICDR)
• Arbitrator, Canadian Transportation Agency
• Mediator, International Panel of Mediators, Singapore Mediation Centre
• Mediator, Japan International Mediation Centre, Kyoto
• Arbitrator, Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (HCCI) Arbitration Court
• Arbitrator, Vienna International Arbitral Centre (VIAC)

• Full Day $6,000, plus applicable taxes, including up to 2 hours of preparation time.
• Half Day $3,500, plus applicable taxes, including up to 1 hour of preparation time.
• Hourly $750, plus applicable taxes.
• All rates above for 2-party matters only.  Additional parties add $500, plus tax, per party.

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