Helping businesses thrive.
The regulatory framework surrounding labour and employment is complex. It creates rights and obligations for employers which impact their operations and business decisions. By having a thorough understanding of the client’s business, Jennifer ensures they clearly understand this framework and finds practical solutions that achieve the client’s business objectives. Jennifer’s practice areas include labour and employment, litigation and workplace human rights.
Representative matters
Understanding the legal implications that could arise from workplace issues are a challenge Jennifer’s clients face. Working with banks, communications firms, insurers, municipalities and the public sector, Jennifer helps her clients navigate these stressful situations. Her past experience includes:
- Representing a municipal employer at an interest arbitration.
- Acting for a business in the mediation of a human rights complaint.
- Making a judicial review application to have the decision of a licensing body overturned.
- Representing an international shipping company in collective bargaining negotiations.
- Acting as defence counsel in personal injury and property damage claims.
Areas of practice:
- Labour and Employment
- Litigation
- Employment Law
- Workplace Human Rights
- Labour Relations
BAR ADMISSION(S)
New Brunswick, 2010
Nova Scotia, 2007
LAW SOCIETY(IES)
Nova Scotia Barristers' Society
Law Society of New Brunswick
EDUCATION
Dalhousie University, LL.B., 2006
Dalhousie University, B.A., 2003
Aix-Marseilles Trois (Diploma in French Studies), 2001
ACTIVITIES
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Human Resources Association of New Brunswick, 2010-present
- Board member, North End Community Health Center, Halifax, 2007-2009
LANGUAGE(S)
English, French