Employment & Labour
Canada Guide 2025 : Alberta
Band 2
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Provided by Burnet Duckworth & Palmer LLP
Offering comprehensive, tailored advice and creative solutions, BD&P navigates sensitive and complex employment and labour matters with a well-connected cross-disciplinary team. They are skilled in alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration, and have the advantage of extensive experience at all levels of court, commissions and tribunals when clients are faced with formal litigation. The team also appears before provincial and federal labour relations boards and arbitrators.
By drawing on the skills and knowledge of the firm's lawyers in privacy, securities, tax, intellectual property, occupational health and safety, workers' compensation, and other areas, the BD&P team can provide the best advice and craft the best solution for each client.
They provide advice on and draft employment contracts, independent contractor agreements, policies, practices and other employment-related agreements. That includes areas of harassment, discrimination, medical testing, drug and alcohol testing, human rights, COVID-19, document retention, privacy, confidentiality, and bonus and equity-related plans and policies. They also offer seminars for human resources teams and executives on all aspects of employment law.
Chambers Review
Burnet Duckworth & Palmer operates from a well-established office in Calgary. It acts for a variety of major employers. The firm assists clients with a diverse array of issues, including collective agreements, labour relations matters, the drafting of employment contracts, executive terminations and wrongful dismissal cases. The employment and labour group also advises on transactional employment mandates and employment-related litigation. It is capable of representing defendants and plaintiffs alike.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Burnet Duckworth & Palmer has excellent lawyers."
"Burnet Duckworth & Palmer has excellent lawyers."
Notable Practitioners
Bob Graham is regularly mandated on terminations, downsizings and workplace human rights issues. He is based in Calgary and also excels in advising employers on the employment aspects of transactions and on drug and alcohol policies.
"Bob is a good all-round labour and employment lawyer. He is a go-to for me."
"Bob Graham is a terrific lawyer."
Gina Ross is a Calgary-based lawyer who is best known for advising clients on the employment aspects of M&A transactions. She also advises on employee fiduciary matters and drug testing policies.
"Gina Ross has a good manner with clients and knows her stuff."
Richard Steele is highly experienced in representing clients in a wide variety of contentious proceedings, including before the Alberta Labour Relations Board and the Alberta Human Rights Commission. Based in Calgary, he also advises employers on termination strategy.
"Richard Steele is a very strong lawyer."
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Burnet Duckworth & Palmer LLP
Alberta