Best Law Firms in Canada for Labour and Employment Law
Our broad civil litigation and administrative law practice focuses on professional negligence, health law and claims arising from sexual, physical and psychological abuse, harassment and assault. We advocate for plaintiffs and defendants, individuals and corporations, professionals and the socially marginalized and everyone in between.
We’re a team of civil litigators, with unparalleled expertise in the fields of:
Health and professional regulation
Sexual abuse, harassment and misconduct
Employment + Human Rights
Public and Constitutional Law
Gowling WLG is an international law firm built on the belief that the best way to serve you is to be in tune with your world, aligned with your opportunity and ambitious for your success. With more than 1,500 legal professionals around the world, we provide our clients with in-depth knowledge in key global sectors and a suite of legal services at home and abroad. We see the world through our clients' eyes, and collaborate across countries, offices, service areas and sectors to help them succeed, no matter how challenging the circumstances.
Brief History
With roots tracing back to 1887, Gowling WLG grew to become one of the largest and most respected law firms in Canada, with a reputation for innovation in client-focused service delivery.
Building on its early strength in intellectual property, Gowling WLG diversified to offer a full suite of business law, litigation and intellectual property services in all of Canada’s key industries, including energy, mining, financial services, government, infrastructure, manufacturing, life sciences and technology.
Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon is one of the largest independent law firms in Quebec, the result of the January 1st, 2010 merger of two well-established firms, Lapointe Rosenstein and Marchand Melançon Forget.
The firm is comprised of nearly 70 lawyers and professionals, specializing in a wide variety of practice areas: commerce, insurance, banking and finance, environment, resources and energy, bankruptcy and insolvency, tax, franchising, real estate, international transactions, licensing and technology, civil and commercial litigation, class actions, intellectual property, Trusts and Estages, as well as labour and employment. The firm can also count on the expertise of a number of other professionals such as notaries, advisors and translators.
For over 50 years, Lapointe Rosenstein Marchand Melançon and its predecessor firms have been fulfilling their clients expectations for expertise, availability and reliability without compromising their high standards of professional service, always promptly and efficiently delivered.
We have also actively sought out and developed an international practice in order to better serve our clients in the face of increasing globalization and market expansion. Our membership in TerraLex®, an international organization of attorneys in over 100 countries, gives us access to a worldwide network of legal and other business advisors.
We are multilingual, multicultural and come from a variety of backgrounds. As such, we reflect the cultural and linguistic diversity of Montreal, one-third of our attorneys being first or second generation Canadians. We are open to the world, offering services in more than twelve languages.
Through our affiliation with Meritas, a global affiliation of law firms, we can help extend your reach and enhance your success in all matters of law and local custom in Manitoba and Canada from answering the simplest of questions to providing full representation on the most complex of matters. We work seamlessly with you or your legal counsel or other professional advisors to meet your business needs.
Pitblado represents large and small, local, national and international, publicly traded and private companies and their owners and managers. Federal, provincial and municipal governments and regulatory bodies, financial institutions and asset managers, health care authorities, institutions and practitioners and many non-profit organizations routinely engage our firm for help on important issues. Pitblado's lawyers are recognized not only for the quality and innovation of their legal solutions, but also for their extraordinary commitment to community. This variety of experience has enabled the members of the firm to develop not only a unique perspective of how business works best but also a valuable network of contacts in law, business and government across the country.
We deal with all aspects and areas of business law:
- the structure and governance of business organizations and relationships to accommodate not only legal and tax systems but also the realities of tomorrow's global business environment;
-commercial litigation; our litigators have extensive court room experience provincial and federal courts alike. We are specialists in insurance, construction, health, transportation and telecommunications, media and sports and entertainment. We are effective in the formal confines of court and the industry specifics of administrative tribunals. Our lawyers represent businesses, insurers, banks, shareholders, professionals and governments in all facets of commercial contract breaches and disputes.
-M&A, financing and investment, IT, restructuring, trade, property, succession, labour and employment and traditional and alternate dispute resolution and interest representation.
First we listen then we become an effective part of your team. We can protect your interests in all courts and administrative and regulatory tribunals with "we need it NOW" responsiveness. We bring an understanding of how industries are evolving in traditional fields such as agriculture, banking, real estate and transportation as well as in cutting-edge sectors like communications and media, information and intellectual property and technology, health, sports, environment and global trade and commerce. We encourage settlement and practice mediation and arbitration, but we understand that sometimes you need to draw a line.
For more information or to contact us, please visit us at www.pitblado.com
Torkin Manes LLP is a full-service law firm based in downtown Toronto. Founded in 1974, we have built our firm by focusing on the core principles that we believe make a great law firm: a deep and personal understanding of clients’ business needs; a results-oriented approach to practice that provides practical, smart, and cost-effective advice; and, above all, responsiveness to our clients.
Our professionals provide legal counsel to individuals, public and private companies, and buyers and sellers of independent businesses. Our clients range from owner-operators and founders to investment funds and high net worth individuals, who value and trust our deep knowledge, experience and expertise in the Canadian mid-market. We advise our clients on day-to-day legal matters, as well as during the most transformative transactions and critical disputes of their businesses and lives.
When clients require legal services in other jurisdictions, we leverage our affiliation with Meritas, an international network of select law firms of which Torkin Manes is a member, to facilitate the procurement of excellent legal service and counsel worldwide.
Our client-driven approach has brought professional accolades. Torkin Manes has been named the 2024 Regional Law Firm of the Year (Central Canada) at the Canadian Law Awards, in addition to our long-standing recognition as Top Regional Law Firm (Ontario) by Canadian Lawyer Magazine. This firm is also consistently shortlisted as one of Canada's Regional Law Firms of the Year by Chambers and Partners. Our Construction, Corporate & Commercial, Family Law and Real Estate Groups are all recognized on the Globe & Mail’s Best Law Firms in Canada list.
Many of our lawyers are well known throughout the profession and community at large as highly respected leaders in their practice areas, as well as teachers, authors and advocates for the Law Society of Ontario and the Ontario Bar Association.
Whitten & Lublin PC is a premium boutique law firm, specializing in labour and employment law. Representing both employers and employees, our role is to assist our clients in all aspects of workplace matters, including terminations, human rights violations, workplace investigations, workplace safety, harassment, employment contracts, and shareholder and partnership disputes.
With over 160 years of combined experience, our team of lawyers have dedicated themselves to being experts in this field. Being at the forefront of employment law, we have skillfully litigated cases that have shaped and transformed employment law.
Whitten & Lublin's commitment to client care is consistently confirmed by lawyer colleagues, HR professionals, and the firm’s diverse clientele. Our client centric approach, and results have earned the firm the reputation of being amongst the best in the industry, resulting in our being one of Canada’s most recommended and highly respected law firms, along with numerous awards and honors that underscores the team’s professionalism and expertise.