Represent various universities in tenure denial cases.
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.
Represent a variety of Ontario universities in negotiations for renewal collective agreements for both academic and non-academic bargaining units and the resolution of labour disputes related to some of those negotiations.
Represented the contracted employer in a sale of a business and single employer application in the first Federal Government GoCo contract.
Assisted an EMS service in addressing a paramedic who crashed an ambulance while having large dosages of oxycodone in his system.
Successfully overturned a Federal Court of Appeal decision which required a nuclear plant to produce medical isotopes during a labour dispute.
Ongoing representation of large municipalities in Ontario, Alberta, Saskatchewan and the Maritimes in their fire negotiations and interest arbitrations.
Counsel for the Association of Municipalities of Ontario at the Walkerton Inquiry.
Chief negotiator and strategic advisor on collective bargaining for large municipalities, provincial agencies and public hospitals.
Successfully represented a major bank on a multi-million-dollar human rights proceeding involving the bank’s pension plan before the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal.
Lead labour counsel and chief negotiator for a number of major hotels in their collective bargaining negotiations.