About
Laura Young began her career with one of Canada’ s leading national full-service law firms, and after several years of building her practice, she started her own firm. For over 25 years, Laura has worked with clients of all kinds to help them solve their problems, bringing knowledge, skill and practicality together to find the best solutions available.
Acting for both employer and employee clients, Laura provides advice and services relating to termination matters, including wrongful, constructive, and for-cause terminations, executive compensation, workplace human rights issues, employment and severance offer review and negotiations, employment contract drafting, privacy issues, and workplace harassment, bullying and other misconduct matters. With extensive knowledge and experience in workplace law, Laura is able to provide clear and understandable advice, support and representation to workplace issues.
Laura’ s litigation practice has ranged from large and complicated commercial and constitutional matters and class actions to disputes involving all types of commercial contracts and commercial torts, as well as professional regulation and professional liability defence, and insurance matters. Laura often works in collaboration with colleagues on unique legal matters and litigation challenges, and she has appeared before all levels of the Ontario Courts, as well as before the Federal court and courts in other provinces, and tribunals. She has acted for the Canadian Civil Liberties Union on constitutional matters, for Democracy Watch dealing with matters of government ethics and for the employee associations which sought the right to unionize all the way to the Supreme Court.