Laura Mensch
Canada Guide 2025
Band 3 : Employment & Labour
Band 3
About
Provided by Laura Mensch
Practice Areas
Laura Mensch is a highly experienced management-side labour and employment lawyer. She provides practical, timely, and client-specific advice to employers in the areas of labour, employment, occupational health & safety, and human rights law. Laura ensures that she truly understands her client’s challenges, goals, and legal requirements before making recommendations. Her thoughtful, practical, and timely advice has made her a trusted advisor and a strong advocate. Laura acts for a wide variety of employers in both federally and provincially regulated industries such as airlines, energy, manufacturing, construction, information technology, and financial and professional services. She also acts for municipalities, private schools, government regulators, and First Nations. Laura has appeared before all levels of court in Alberta as well as before the Alberta Labour Relations Board, arbitrators, human rights tribunals, and other administrative tribunals. She also conducts and oversees workplace investigations and provides strategic advice to clients in relations to workplace restructuring and mergers & acquisitions.
Career
Alberta Bar 1999. LL.B., University of Calgary, 1998.
Professional Memberships
Member: Law Society of Alberta, Canadian Bar Association, CACE (Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers)
Chambers Review
Canada
Laura Mensch frequently represents employers in contentious matters, particularly human rights complaints and unjust dismissal complaints. She also advises on occupational health and safety issues and workplace relations from Borden Ladner Gervais' Calgary office.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"I really enjoy working with Laura Mensch. She is responsive, thorough, practical and just a pleasure to spend time with."
"Laura is an excellent employment counsel and has a fantastic platform."
"I really enjoy working with Laura Mensch. She is responsive, thorough, practical and just a pleasure to spend time with."
"Laura is an excellent employment counsel and has a fantastic platform."
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