Successfully defended a media corporation in a judicial review application regarding enforceability of confidentiality settlement language.
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.
Counsel to a national media and communications company in respect of all of its employment and labour-related matters.
Advised a telecommunications company on the people issues associated with the purchase and sale of businesses.
Provided strategic advice to a media company in order to successfully resist union certification.
Represented a technology company in successfully establishing cause for dismissal based on conflict of interest, upheld on appeal.
Represented a technology company on appeal in overturning an award of punitive and aggravated damages and reducing a reasonable notice award.
Successfully acted for a number of defendants in an employee class action certification motion relating to a call centre closure in narrowing the legal claims and the composition of the class sought by the plaintiffs and was involved in successfully obtaining a court approval for the settlement of the class action.
Successfully represented a national broadcaster in one of the most significant bargaining unit restructuring proceedings before the Canada Labour Relations Board.
Represented a broadcaster in a major non-construction jurisdictional dispute leading to an amendment by the Ontario Labour Relations Board of a collective agreement scope clause.
Represented a media company plan administrator before the Ontario Superior Court and the Court of Appeal for Ontario in a precedent-setting case establishing the standard for separation agreement language needed to create a pension plan assignment following a member’s marriage breakdown.