Daniel Asher Lublin

Media Commentator & Author – See Daniel Lublin’s Report on Business Column in the Globe and Mail

For over twenty years, I’ve been the lawyer people call when their career is on the line. A dismissal that wasn’t handled fairly. A severance offer that falls short. A workplace investigation or allegation that threatens a hard-earned reputation. Clients come to me because they need someone with the experience, judgment and resolve to be taken seriously by the other side.

This is a responsibility I don’t take lightly, because an employment dispute is rarely just about money. It can threaten a career someone spent decades building, a professional reputation earned over a lifetime and a family’s financial security.

My job is to level the playing field. Sometimes that means finding a swift, discreet resolution. Sometimes it means pushing much harder. I’ve spent my career building a reputation as a lawyer who is prepared to go the distance when a case demands it and the other side knows it.

That matters. Leverage isn’t something you claim in a letter. It’s something you earn through experience, preparation and a demonstrated willingness to follow through. When the other side knows I’ve carefully assessed a case and am prepared to test it in court, it changes the conversation. Claims are harder to dismiss, meaningful negotiations tend to happen sooner, and fair resolutions become more achievable.

My track record includes more than 45 reported decisions at multiple levels of court, including cases that have helped shape employment law in Canada. As lead appeal counsel in Wood v. Fred Deeley Imports Ltd. , I helped establish an important standard for interpreting employment contracts in Ontario; the decision has since been cited in more than 140 rulings. In Flegg v. Sigma Lithium Corporation , my client was awarded approximately $2.5 million following his dismissal, including $250,000 in aggravated and punitive damages. In How v. PRGX Canada Corp. , the award was nearly $1.7 million, which was more than $1.2 million above the employer’s original offer. And in Markoulakis v. SNC-Lavalin Inc. , my 65-year-old client received 27 months’ notice.