Herb Isherwood
Canada Guide 2025
Band 3 : Employment & Labour
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About
Provided by Herb Isherwood
Practice Areas
Herb Isherwood is the Canadian national chair of our employment and labour group. He has over 30 years of experience assisting public and private sector employers with a wide range of labour and employment issues.
Herb maintains a busy practice advising employers on disability and absenteeism, termination and wrongful dismissal, union organizing campaigns, labour relations strategy and collective agreement negotiation, collective agreement interpretation, grievance arbitration, workers compensation, employment standards, and human rights. He has extensive experience in mergers, acquisitions and other corporate restructuring and downsizing and is frequently called upon to advise on complex transactions. He also advises on executive compensation, short- and long-term incentive plans and employment agreements.
Chambers Review
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Herb Isherwood is a well-regarded Vancouver-based lawyer and the national chair of Norton Rose Fulbright's employment and labour group. He has a vast range of experience across the full gamut of labour and employment law. His clients include notable entities in the education, maritime and telecoms industries.
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"Herb is excellent. He is reliable, responsive, incredibly experienced and understands our business and people."
"Herb is responsive and strategic. He knows our organisation well and provides approaches and recommendations that best suit our industry."
"Herb is a very seasoned, knowledgeable lawyer with years of experience."
"Herb understands our business and how we operate and what we do, our risk profiles and he packages his advice in a manner that completely takes that into account."
"Herb is excellent. He is reliable, responsive, incredibly experienced and understands our business and people."
"Herb is responsive and strategic. He knows our organisation well and provides approaches and recommendations that best suit our industry."
"Herb is a very seasoned, knowledgeable lawyer with years of experience."
"Herb understands our business and how we operate and what we do, our risk profiles and he packages his advice in a manner that completely takes that into account."