Building relationships.
For Rosemary, the single most important key to success in the practice of law is building and maintaining solid relationships with clients. To achieve that goal, a lawyer has to listen carefully to clients, be on time for meetings, meet deadlines, think creatively, provide candid advice, work hard, always be prepared, and vigorously advocate the client’s position. As a result of her dedication to these principles, Rosemary has succeeded in developing long-standing relationships with a variety of clients including government institutions, crown corporations, school boards, a workers’ compensation board, technology and other firms.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Represents various public bodies in relation to the processing of access to information requests, and responding to privacy complaints (including representation of a public body in connection with the judicial review of a major access to information decision), and third parties affected by access to information requests.
- Represents public and private sector employers on a broad range of employment and labour matters including employment contract preparation, employment terminations and discipline, arbitrations, employment standards matters (including representation of an employer in resolving multiple overtime claims), workplace human rights, workplace privacy, pension and benefit, and policy issues.
- Represented school board in successful defence of judicial review of school closure decision.
- Counsel to workers’ compensation board, and represents board on significant Charter and human rights cases.
- Represents employers in several discrimination cases pending before the human rights commission and human rights tribunal.
Areas of practice
- Access to Information and Privacy
- Labour and Employment Law
- Workplace Human Rights
- Pensions & Employee Benefits
- Workers’ Compensation
- Government Regulations
- Litigation – Public Law
- Litigation - General
BAR ADMISSION(S)
Prince Edward Island, 1980
LAW SOCIETY(IES)
Law Society of Prince Edward Island
EDUCATION
Dalhousie University, LL.B., 1979
University of Prince Edward Island, B.A., 1975
QUEEN'S COUNSEL
1998
ACTIVITIES
- Member, Labour and Employment Group, Stewart McKelvey
- Member, Intellectual Property/IT/Entertainment Law Group, Stewart McKelvey
- Director, Canadian Association of Counsel for Employers, 2010-present
- Chair, Ethics Committee, Law Society of Prince Edward Island, 1998-present
- Panel hearing chair, Prince Edward Island District Council of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada, 2004-2011
- Member, Canadian Bar Association
- Past chair, Judicial Compensation and Benefits Committee, Canadian Bar Association
- Jazz singer, studied and performed at Victory Conservatory of Music Summer Workshop, Vermont Jazz Centre Summer Workshops, Cuban Music School in Havana, Cuba, Charlottetown Chamber of Commerce Ultimate Girls’ Night Out, and other venues
LANGUAGE(S)
English
LEXPERT RATINGS
Labour Relations
MARTINDALE-HUBBELL RATINGS
BV
EXTERNAL RATINGS
- Best Lawyers: Administrative and Public Law, 2012
- Best Lawyers: Education Law, 2012
- Best Lawyers: Labour and Employment Law, 2006