Njeri Damali Campbell

At their best, they are collaborative, efficient and united. Njeri helps employers realize the potential of their workplaces through the development of policies and procedures, the design and delivery of training for managers and employees and, when the need arises, resolution of legal disputes through mediation and litigation.

Njeri supports employers in all aspects of the labour relations cycle. She advises on collective bargaining including complex negotiations and rights arbitration for broader public sector organizations. She regularly appears before labour arbitrators to resolve and litigate grievances under clients’ collective agreements. She appreciates the importance of balancing the resolution of discrete disputes with the need to maintain productive working relationships between employers and bargaining agents.

Njeri assists employers shape workplace culture through the design of legally sound and values-forward workplace policies and procedures. Her policy design approach is team-based and collaborative and recognizes the importance of policies that are reflective of each client’s culture, not merely templates.

Prior to her legal career, Njeri was employed as a Human Rights and Diversity Advisor at a community college. She combines this practical experience with her legal knowledge to support clients faced with complaints, publicity and litigation in these areas. She is currently working with school boards, municipalities, hospitals and non-profit organizations in human rights and equity restructuring initiatives involving strategic advising and policy augmentation.

Njeri regularly defends employers before the Human Rights Tribunal, at labour arbitrations and in courts.

Once a student activist, Njeri now devotes her civic engagement time to mentorship and the literary arts. She believes in the transformative power of legal professionals and is committed to the creation of a more equitable professional community. Immediately after her Call to the Bar in 2015, Njeri founded UJIMA Mentorship Circle, a supportive space for Black female-identified students and lawyers. Through UJIMA, Njeri leverages her professional relationship to forge bonds between her mentees, experienced practitioners and members of the bench. Njeri and her wife are currently working with Osgoode Hall Law School to establish an endowment to support African-Indigenous law stu