Allison commenced her arbitration/mediation practice in June of 2020.  She has over 30 years’ experience in labour and employment law.  In that time she:

• represented unions as legal counsel in arbitrations, proceedings at the Labour Relations Board of BC and in the BC courts for fifteen years;
• adjudicated and conducted mediations as Vice-Chair at the BC Labour Relations Board for ten years, and served on the executive as Registrar and then Associate Chair, Adjudication for four years; and
• at the University of British Columbia, led the university bargaining team in collective bargaining with the faculty association and managed a team of lawyers and human resource personnel responsible for employment issues related to unionized and non-unionized faculty members 

1986 – Bachelor of Arts (Sociology) – Carleton University
1989 – LL.B – University of Ottawa

Arbitrators Association of British Columbia
Register of Arbitrators, Collective Agreement Arbitration Bureau