Reut Amit | Barrister & Solicitor

Workplace InvestigatorMediatorFederally Regulated InvestigatorAssessorOrganization SupportTrainerCoach

Jan 24

Investigator · Federally Regulated Employers Investigator · Mediator · Assessor · Governance & Organization Support · Trainer · Coach

**Called to the Bar**
British Columbia Bar: 2015
**Second Language**
Hebrew
**Noteworthy**
Reut Amit, Tonie Beharrell, and Heather Hettiarachchi, “The Reasonable Person: Challenges and New Directions”, CLE Human Rights Law Conference 2022
Reut Amit, “Times Are A-Changin’- A Call for Social Context in Labour Arbitration”, CLE Human Rights Law Conference 2021
Reut Amit, “Mental Distress Damages in the Employment Context: A New Legal Standard?” Employment and Labour Law Reporter, December 2018

Reut Amit is a workplace lawyer, investigator, mediator, and facilitator who has a depth of experience in advising and representing diverse public and private sector clients on labour and employment matters, including human rights. She brings a trauma-informed lens to her work and is particularly passionate about bringing a trauma-informed process into all adjudicative and decision-making spaces.
Prior to joining SBP, Reut practiced workplace law and civil litigation at one of the leading workplace law boutiques in Canada.
Reut holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Victoria, a Master of Arts in Government from the Reichman University with a specialization in Diplomacy and Conflict Studies, and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from the University of British Columbia. She was called to the British Columbia Bar in 2015. In 2022, Reut completed a Mediation and Conflict Management certification course from Harvard Law School Executive Education.
As an investigator, Reut combines her legal acumen and experience with high emotional intelligence to approach each case with a sensitivity to the significant impact that workplace conflict has on those involved. As a mediator and facilitator, Reut helps parties to discuss and negotiate their conflict by exploring one another’s deeper interests and beliefs.
Reut’s approach to her work is rooted in an understanding that each workplace is a unique ecosystem made up of individuals, their relationships with one another, and the culture and values embedded within that environment. She is passionate about understanding the underlying issues fueling challenges in the workplace and working collaboratively with parties to address complex and multifaceted disputes. Reut works with clients to determine the best approach to the unique challenges they face, whether through early detection and prevention, a collaborative approach that is focused on facilitating the resolution of conflict and preserving workplace relationships, or through a traditional fact-finding investigation.
Mediator
Reut Amit has a depth of experience in advising and representing diverse public and private sector clients on workplace issues, including human rights. She has also worked in an advisory capacity in political environments and is well-versed in the practicalities of those environments. Her experience in assisting parties to find their common interests and develop a strategy for moving forward in a manner that both preserves relationships and serves those interests informs all aspects of her practice, including mediation. As a mediator and facilitator, Reut facilitates a process whereby parties work to understand the roots of the conflict between them and their contribution to the conflicted relationship, and to explore one another’s deeper interests and beliefs. She aims to create a process whereby parties are empowered to find resolution to their own conflict in a way that preserves workplace relationships. Reut believes in the power of mediation to transform the parties and their relationship with one another, thereby addressing the source of conflict and providing tools to engage in future conflict productively, rather than resolving a singular issue.