Successfully defended a university and a municipality in various human rights litigation alleging a failure to accommodate disability and family status in employment.
Work
We offer legal services that include advice, courtroom and tribunal advocacy, negotiation, alternative dispute resolution, policy development and strategic planning. Below are examples of work we have performed for our clients.
Successful in representing an educational institution in having a long-running human rights proceeding dismissed for abuse of process; reconsideration request denied.
Ongoing advisor to boards and councils on a variety of legal, regulatory and government relations issues including challenges with executive compensation, human rights and social media issues.
Successfully represented a university in judicial review proceedings to protect the integrating of information-sharing policies in a unionized academic setting.
Successfully argued on behalf of a university that an application for judicial review of an arbitrator’s decision, which had upheld a termination for cause, should be dismissed for delay.
Successfully upheld the discharge of a tenured university faculty member for quid pro quo sexual harassment of a student.