Randi Hammer Abramsky

Arbitrator

Ms. Abramsky began her legal career with Vedder, Price, Kaufman and Kammholz in Chicago in 1981, after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania School of Law. In 1986, she became General Counsel of the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board- and spoke at her first Kent Law School Public Sector Labor Conference.  In 1988, became a Board Member with the IELRB. She started her arbitration practice around that time.

In 1991, Ms. Abramsky relocated to Toronto, Ontario, and after obtaining an LL.M in Canadian labor law, started arbitrating and mediating in Ontario (as well as continuing in the U.S.). Ms. Abramsky has been a full-time mediator and arbitrator, practicing in both locales, since that time.

She is also active in the National Academy of Arbitrators, and is President of the Ontario Labour Management Arbitrators’ Association.