Acting as chief spokesperson for a professional sports league in collective bargaining negotiations with the Players’ Association.
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.
Labour and employment counsel to one of Canada’s leading steel producers in its CCAA restructuring.
Successfully represented a mining company in a judicial review application from an arbitrator’s decision upholding an employee’s termination for falsifying records.
Successfully represented a hospital in a judicial review application relating to jurisdiction of an arbitrator to hear a significant pension claim.
Successfully represented an airline on a multi-party judicial review application relating to a major reorganization.
Successfully defended an individual from a human rights complaint alleging a breach of the duty to accommodate and discrimination in housing.
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.