About the Organizers
The University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law is one of Canada’s
outstanding law schools, with an enrollment of 550 students and 34
fulltime faculty. Founded in 1959, Western Law has a rich tradition of
labour and employment legal scholarship, and has a large alumni
practicing with the leading labour and employment lawyers across the
country. The Faculty of Law offers a wide variety of courses in
workplace law, publishes widely in this area and organizes regular
conferences. Western Law also has an active student labour law society
that actively participates in the Faculty’s mooting and external
speakers’ programme.
Heenan Blaikie maintains the pre-eminent labour and employment law
practice in Canada, with more than 120 lawyers providing distinguished
services to a wide range of clients at the provincial, national and
international levels. We provide a broad range of services including
collective agreement negotiations, pensions and benefits, labour
relations and workforce planning, arbitration, human rights, employment
equity, pay equity, employment standards, and OHS & workers
compensation advice and work with clients across provincial and federal
industry sectors. Our clients range in size from large, established
multinational and national corporations, crown corporations and
government organizations and startup
corporations.
Widely acknowledged as one of Canada’s foremost firms in the areas of
civil litigation, trade union labour law, pensions and benefits and
class actions, Koskie Minsky continues to build a flexible,
multi-faceted practice. Koskie Minsky’s Labour Law Group is one of
Canada’s foremost union-side legal teams. Representing trade unions in
the public and private sector, we provide a full range of services and
advice on all aspects of labour relations and employment law.
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