Dr. Ellis (S. Ronald), PhD/law, is a retired, Toronto-based administrative law lawyer who has experienced the administrative justice system from a multitude of perspectives: as a management labour counsel; a poverty-law, store-front lawyer; a litigator; a tenured, associate professor of labour and administrative law; a labour arbitrator; for twelve years the chair and CEO of Ontario’s Workers’ Compensation Appeals Tribunal (WCAT, now WSIAT); a board member of CCAT; the inaugural President of SOAR; and as a late-in-life, PhD candidate studying the administrative justice system (2003-2009).