Lead counsel in multiple Applications for Certification in the hospitality and gaming industry.
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.
Lead counsel to a client with a matter proceeding to the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario related to transgender issues.
Counsel to various companies in connection with the labour and employment aspects regarding the sale of their businesses.
Counsel to a national media and communications company in respect of all of its employment and labour-related matters.
Counsel to financial services institutions in respect of all their dismissal-related matters, including those that proceed to court.
Advised a utility contractor in connection with an investigation into a fatality, following which no charges were laid.
Advised an electrical contractor in connection with an investigation into a critical injury on a job site, following which no charges were laid.
Successfully argued that a contractor has the right in appropriate circumstances to lay off a worker for lack of suitable work or terminate the worker for just cause where the owner of a project objects to the worker remaining on the project.
Successfully argued in the Court of Appeal for Ontario that an arbitrator under a construction industry collective agreement has exclusive jurisdiction to determine whether or not an employee is covered by the terms of the collective agreement.
Successful in having charges against a manufacturer arising from a workplace fatality dismissed following a trial.