Michael provides advice to employers and management in both the private and public section on a wide range of labour and employment issues. Having assisted a variety of employers with responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, Michael has developed expertise in navigating complex public health directives and integrating those directives into clients’ occupational health and safety policies.
School: Toronto
Rachel M. Counsell
Rachel Counsell is a labour and employment lawyer in Hicks Morley’s Toronto office. She provides advice and representation to employers and management in both the private and public sector on a wide-range of labour, employment, and human rights issues, including grievance arbitrations, collective bargaining, labour disputes, occupational health and safety, human rights and accommodation, and employment standards.
Eleanor A. Vaughan
Eleanor assists employers and management in resolving litigation and legal disputes, whether through principled settlement negotiations or courtroom advocacy.
Rebecca Liu
Rebecca provides advice and representation to employers I both the private and public sectors on a wide-range of labour, employment and human rights issues.
Tatiana K. Lazdins
Tatiana provides advice to employers and management in both public and private sectors on management of digital evidence and eDiscovery processes. As a lawyer and electrical engineer with years of experience providing eDiscovery management consulting services, Tatiana is strongly positioned to leverage top technology for timely and thorough analysis of potential evidence in electronic data sets.
Ioana Dragalin
Ioana Dragalin has completed her second year of the J.D. program at the University of Toronto. She received her Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Human Biology from the University of Toronto. During her time at law school, Ioana has been deeply involved in the mooting program, winning Best Appellant Factum and placing as Top Oralist in the 2019 Honourable Frank W. Callaghan Memorial Moot.
Mariana Kamenetsky
Mariana provides advice to federally and provincially regulated employers on all aspects of workers’ compensation claims and appeals, such as initial entitlement, accommodation and related human rights and arbitration proceedings.
Nadine S. Zacks
Nadine regularly provides advice and training to clients regarding issues relating to sexual harassment under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and the Human Rights Code, including both incident response and implementing proactive measures to help create a harassment-free work environment.
Tierney Read Grieve
Working with the firm’s lawyers, Tierney is responsible for law student and associate programs, which includes recruitment, mentoring and performance management.
Catherine L. Peters
Catherine provides strategic advice to public and private sector clients on a wide variety of human rights, employment law, labour relations, and administrative law issues.