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Tim Lawson
Work Department
Employment & Labour
Position
Tim is a partner in Toronto and the Head of McCarthy Tetrault’s National Labour and Employment Group. Practicing Canadian management-side labour and employment law on behalf of national and global employers. Provides advice and advocacy in all areas including union organizing, collective bargaining, grievance arbitration, provincial and federal labour boards, corporate structuring pre-and post-acquisition, human rights, employment standards, workers compensation, privacy, and pay and employment equity. Frequent author, interviewee and speaker on labour and employment issues and government policy.
Career
Ontario Bar, 1993
Memberships
CBA, LSO, Toronto Law Association, American Bar Association, Transport Lawyers Association, Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers.
Personal
Reopening a Safe Workplace: To test employees temperatures or not? (June 2020), published by Toronto Law Journal (with Patrick Pengelly)
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Labour and employment
(Leading partners)McCarthy Tétrault‘s labour and employment group supports clients on litigation mandates, collective agreement negotiations, human rights litigation and a range of advisory and transactional mandates. The group operates from offices in Toronto, Montréal, Québec City, Calgary and Vancouver. Toronto-based Tim Lawson heads up the national practice group. Additional names to note at the Toronto office include Sunil Kapur, who routinely represents financial services, manufacturing, transportation and healthcare clients in labour board proceedings; and all-rounder Kate McNeill-Keller. André Baril in Montreal and Shana Wolch in Calgary are also noted. John Gilmore joined the firm’s Calgary office from Bennett Jones LLP in August 2024.
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