Kristin Rachell Taylor

Kristin Taylor (she/her/hers) serves as the firm’s Managing Partner and is a partner in the Employment & Labour Group . Kristin provides practical and strategic advice to employers on a wide range of employment matters including employee hiring, discipline and termination; severance packages; corporate restructuring; employment agreements and personnel policies; certification applications; privacy and AODA compliance; mergers & acquisitions and employment standards and human rights issues. Kristin regularly represents employers in court in wrongful dismissal actions, severance pay class actions, restrictive covenant disputes and injunctions; in grievance arbitrations, in collective bargaining and before various administrative tribunals, including the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, and labour relations boards. She also conducts supervisory development and harassment prevention training to proactively prevent workplace disputes.

Kristin is a former Editor-in-Chief of the monthly CCH publication, C anadian Employment & Equality Rights , specializing in recent developments in human rights law. She authored the Employment Issues in a Sale of Business segment for the LexisNexis Practice Advisor Canada and the Employment Law Issues in Business Transactions chapter of the text New Perspectives on Canadian Employment Law. She is also a frequent presenter and contributor to firm’s publications on trends in employment law, with a particular focus on issues faced by Ontario employers.

Kristin Taylor is a well-respected employment lawyer. She has a good reputation.

Kristin is one of the brightest lawyers that I have worked with. She is smart, knowledgeable, practical and fearless.

She is a valued and trusted legal adviser. She understands the complexities of our business and provides thoughtful, practical advice.