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Borden Ladner Gervais LLP Offices
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Bay Adelaide Centre, East Tower
22 Adelaide Street West, Suite 3400
Toronto, ON M5H 4E3
Canada
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Clifford J. Hart
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Work Department
Labour and Employment
Position
Partner
Career
Clifford provides strategic advice and training to a wide range of private and public sector employers on diverse labour relations and employment law related issues. This includes:
- collective bargaining and collective agreements
- union-organizing campaigns
- unfair labour practices
- strikes and picketing
- human rights
- discipline and discharge
- wrongful dismissal
- employment standards
- human resources policies and procedures
Clifford appears regularly as employer counsel in grievance and interest arbitrations and before administrative tribunals including the Ontario Labour Relations Board and the Human Rights Tribunal.
Clifford has worked on a number of wage and hour and “misclassification” class actions. He also acts as counsel to National Hockey League clubs in salary arbitration disputes with their players.
Memberships
- Member, American Bar Association
- Member, Canadian Bar Association (labour law section)
- Member, Law Society of Alberta
- Member, Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers
- Member, Sports Lawyers Association
Education
- LLB, University of Alberta, 1987
- BA, McGill University, 1984
Bar Admission
- Ontario, 1991
- Alberta, 1988
Lawyer Rankings
Canada > Labour and employment
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP boasts a strong labour and employment offering, with key lawyers posted in Montreal, Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary and Ottawa. Employment matters, labour relations, collective bargaining, occupational health and safety, privacy, pensions and benefit, and immigration matters feature among the group’s specialities. André Royer steers the sizable national group from Montreal and acts for employers in relation to unlawful dismissal, conditions of employment, occupational health and safety, and labour relations matters. Additional key figures at the Montreal office include senior counsel and collective bargaining specialist Danny Kaufer, and Maryse Tremblay, who is known for advising federally regulated employers. Key Toronto contacts include litigator Matthew Certosimo and Clifford Hart, who covers both contentious and non-contentious matters. Over in Calgary, Duncan Marsden is active in the advisory space.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Construction
- International trade
- Labour and employment
- Business immigration
- Pensions
- Business immigration
- Energy and natural resources > Power
- Transport > Aviation
- Transport > Shipping
Firm Rankings
- Dispute resolution: Alberta
- Dispute resolution: British Columbia
- Dispute resolution: Quebec
- Indigenous law
- Infrastructure projects
- Insurance
- Banking and finance
- Business immigration
- Competition and antitrust
- Dispute resolution: Ontario
- Environment
- Intellectual property
- Energy and natural resources > Mining
- Energy and natural resources > Oil and gas
- Transport > Other transport
- Pensions
- Public procurement
- Real estate
- Restructuring and insolvency
- Tax
- Technology
- Capital markets
- Corporate and M&A