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Lisa Talbot
Work Department
Employment & Labour Law Litigation
Position
With sophisticated advisory skills and strategic guidance in disputes, Lisa is an accomplished litigator and trusted advisor to boards and companies on their most sensitive and high-profile employment matters.
Lisa leads Torys’ Employment Litigation Practice, advising companies and boards of directors on all manner of human resources issues, as well as representing them in contentious employment matters.
As a strategic advisor with sophisticated perspective, Lisa gives comprehensive guidance to clients, often behind the scenes, on their most complex employment matters with enterprise-wide implications, such as high-profile CEO and C-suite departures and hires, policy-setting, whistleblower programs and workplace-related investigations. She also advises companies undertaking investigations and leading investigations, particularly on sensitive employment matters such as allegations of executive and employee misconduct and sexual harassment. To help proactively mitigate crisis risk, Lisa works closely with leading Canadian businesses on crisis management, response and preparedness tactics.
Lisa is a skilled litigator, with deep experience in employment class actions defence. She regularly acts for Canada’s largest employers on overtime and other employment class actions, as well as in wrongful dismissal claims, bonus disputes and human rights and harassment claims. She has appeared as counsel in the Supreme Court of Canada, in all levels of court in Ontario, and in the Federal Court, as well as before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.
Lisa is a member of Torys’ Executive Committee.
Career
Nova Scotia, 2015
Alberta, 2014
Ontario, 2001
Memberships
Lisa is a sought-after speaker and thought leader on all manner of issues related to employment law. She is an Adjunct Professor with the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she teaches the law of the workplace in the Global Professional LLM program.
Lisa regularly instructs and lectures on employment law, class actions, sexual harassment and advocacy, including for The Advocates’ Society, Law Society of Upper Canada, Ontario Bar Association, the Osgoode Intensive Trial Advocacy Program and the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA).
She writes frequently on employment law and class actions and is the co-editor of the Canadian edition of Modern Trial Advocacy: Analysis & Practice (3rd Canadian edition), which is used in law schools and advocacy programs across Canada.
Lisa is a member of the Labour and Employment and Class Actions sections of the Ontario Bar Association and served on the Executive of the Labour and Employment Law Section from 2013 to 2015 and 2018 to 2019. She is also a member of CACE (Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers).
Further, she is the Co-Chair of the University Tribunal (Trial Division) at the University of Toronto and a member of the Board of Governors of the Sterling Hall School.
During law school, Lisa studied international and comparative law at the Universite Pantheon–Assas (Paris II) in Paris.
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Pensions
Torys‘ practice provides clients with pension plan governance and pension law counsel. Its expertise also spans plan drafting, wind-ups, administration and tax issues, regulatory and governance matters and transactional support. The practice is jointly led by two Toronto-based partners: Tom Stevenson handles pension governance matters in relation to corporate and commercial transactions, and Lisa Talbot specializes in contentious employment and pensions matters. Counsel Raegan Kennedy is also of note. Ex-practice head Mitch Frazer left the firm in March 2023, along with partner Susan Nickerson, who departed in April 2023. Partner Stephanie Kalinowski, previously at Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP, joined the group in June 2023.
Canada > Labour and employment
The Toronto-based group at Torys offers advisory labour counsel on matters including hirings and dismissals, employment standards and occupational health and safety laws, employee benefits and executive compensation, in addition to representing clients in employment class actions. Lisa Talbot heads up the employment litigation practice and has significant expertise in workplace harassment matters. Partner Jennifer Lennon specializes in compensation arrangements for senior management teams, while counsel Darryl Hiscocks provides across-the-board labour support. Ex-practice head Mitch Frazer left the firm in March 2023.
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