I resolve the commercial disputes where the stakes are too high to leave to chance.  

For nine years, Canada's top national law firms and leading litigation boutiques have retained me for their most complex disputes: shareholder oppression, partnerships disuptes, class actions, all manner of contract disputes, business torts, professional liability, and executive employment disputes.  My practice is built entirely on referral, one case, one relationship at a time.  In 2026, the Ontario Bar Association recognized that work with its Award of Excellence in ADR.

What Sets My Practice Apart

I bring over 30 years of litigation experience to the mediator's role.  I've stood where you stand - billion-dollar disputes for Canada's largest public companies, bet-the-company cases for family businesses and class actions. I know where the parties' risks lie because I've lived those risks at the bar.

Experience alone doesn't settle cases.  My methodology is designed to establish the conditions for productive negotiation and to create the best opportunity for the case to settle.  Each of the three elements below emerged from my litigation experience, my extensive training, and nine years of paying close attention to what works:

Joint Planning Meeting - The planning meeting is the beginning of the medation itself.  Before the parties sit down, every forseeable barrier to settlement is addressed: the right decision-makers, full settlement authority, the information needed to value the case properly, and a delivery schedule for the mediation briefs that gives all the parties and their counsel genuine time to review, reflect and prepare.

Litigation Decision Tree Analysis - Included at no charge.  I build a probababilistic model of every material outcome at trial. I work with each party to determine the risk-adjusted value of the case from their perspective, based on their counsel's confidential risk assessements and deep knowledge of the case.  This grounds the negotiation in reality, not wishful thinking. No other Canadian commercial mediatior is known to offer this routinely.

Joint Opening PowerPoint Presentation - Every mediation opens with a 45-minute presentation prepared about the the case. This detailed presentation serves three purposes.  First, it demonstrates that I have carefully reviewed the mediation briefs and thought deeply about  the case so that the parties and counsel are confident that they can focus on productive negotation rather than educating the mediator.  Second, it confirms that each party has been heard: their view of the facts and their positions have been considered. Third, it ensures that all parties enter the negotiation with a common understanding of what is agreed and what is disupted - a foundation for everything that follows.

What Canada's leading litigators say: "Among the finest mediators practicing in the province today." "If there is a resolution to be had, she will find it." "What makes Kathryn so exceptional is I know I can unreservedly put my trust in her."  "The best in the business"

My Booking Calendar is available on my website www.PodrebaracMediation.com

Let's resolve your dispute. 

kp@podrebaracmediation.com

• LL.B, Osgoode Hall Law School
• Certificate in Mediating Disputes, Harvard Law School Executive Education
• Certificate in Advanced Mediation of Complex Disputes, Harvard Law School Executive Education
• Certificate in Mediating the Litigated Case, Pepperdine University School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution
• Certificate in Negotiation and Leadership: Dealing with Difficult People and Problems, Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation
• Certificate in Negotiating the Impossible, Harvard Law School, Program on Negotiation
• Certificate in Advanced Commercial Mediation Training, New York State Bar Association
• Certificate in Early Dispute Resolution, Early Dispute Resolution Institute and the Houston Bar Asssociation

• The Law Society of Upper Canada
• Canadian Bar Association
• Canadian Academy of Distinguished Neutrals

Effective January 1, 2026, my fees for a 2 party mediation are as follows:

• Full day — 6 hours (includes up to 6 hours of preparation and decision tree analysis for the parties) – $12,000 (plus HST)

This rate includes 6 hours of preparation time.  Please call me if your mediation involves more than 2 parties or will take more than 1 full day so that we may discuss adjustments to my fees for these circumstances. 

I only conduct mediations virtually, using the ZOOM video-conferencing platform.  I do not conduct half-day mediations.

I charge $1,000 per hour if the mediation extends beyond the allotted time or in the rare event that additional preparation is required. Due to other commitments, I cannot always continue a mediation past the allotted time, so please consult all parties about the length of the mediation prior to booking.

Cancellation Fees — If a mediation is cancelled 10 days or less prior to the scheduled mediation date, 50% of my fees are payable, jointly and severally, by all parties and their lawyers, unless they agree otherwise in writing. I will waive this cancellation fee if the mediation is rebooked and held with me in the next 3 months. A mediation may only be rescheduled once.

English