Angela Marie Powell

Angela leads our firm’s workplace safety and insurance practice. She joined Sherrard Kuzz LLP after 20 years’ experience in both private practice and the highest levels of government and policy making, including serving the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (“WSIB”) as Chief Legal Officer and before that as Vice President – Policy and Consultation Services, Vice President – Strategy and Enterprise Project Management Office, and as Director of the WSIB’s Operational Policy Branch and Business Transformation Office.

Prior to the WSIB, Angela held a number of leadership positions at eHealth Ontario; the Ontario Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Labour, Immigration, Training and Skills Development. She was also a Senior Policy Advisor to the Ontario Minister of Labour, and a practicing labour and employment lawyer.

In addition to workplace safety and insurance, Angela has extensive experience in privacy law. She has developed corporate policies regarding employee privacy, and the rules and protocols regarding how a government agency protects and provides access to information about clients (consistent with the Freedom of information and Protection of Privacy Act ). She also has experience responding to access to information requests at both the WSIB and Ontario Public Service.

Angela is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, Canadian Bar Association, and Ontario Bar Association.

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