Editorial shortlist / 2026
A supplied editorial shortlist spanning employee, employer, and union-side perspectives. Use it to begin your own review, not as a guarantee that any lawyer is objectively the best fit.
Read this first
The side you represent matters.
Employment practice can differ substantially between employees, employers, and unions. Confirm client-side fit before sharing confidential workplace details.
Ten profiles to consider
Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP
BothThe supplied research note describes long-standing employment practice representing employees and employers, including major employment-related class actions and professional recognition. Confirm current role and focus directly with the linked source.
Champ & Associates
Union-sideThe supplied research note describes employment, labour, human-rights, and constitutional litigation for workers, unions, and public-sector employees. Confirm current role and practice focus directly with the linked source.
Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP
Employer-sideThe supplied research note describes employer-side labour and employment litigation, arbitration, regulatory matters, and labour-board proceedings. Confirm current recognition and practice focus directly with the linked source.
Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP
BothThe supplied research note describes employment and labour leadership across wrongful dismissal, contracts, human rights, collective bargaining, discipline, and litigation. Confirm current role and client-side focus directly with the linked source.
Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP
Employer-sideThe supplied research note describes employer-side labour and employment work involving terminations, collective bargaining, human rights, labour relations, and arbitration. Confirm current role and services directly with the linked source.
Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP
BothThe supplied research note describes senior litigation for employees and employers across human rights, workplace safety, insurance, terminations, and general employment disputes. Confirm current focus directly with the linked source.
Nelligan O’Brien Payne LLP
BothThe supplied research note describes employment representation for employees and employers across the employment relationship, courts, labour relations, and human-rights proceedings. Confirm current recognition and focus directly with the linked source.
Hicks Morley Hamilton Stewart Storie LLP
Employer-sideThe supplied research note describes employer-side labour and employment practice involving dismissal defence, human rights, union organizing, grievance arbitration, and labour-board proceedings. Confirm current focus directly with the linked source.
RavenLaw
Employee-sideThe supplied research note describes employment, labour, and human-rights work for employees and unions, including dismissal, severance, discrimination, disability, courts, and tribunals. Confirm current focus directly with the linked source.
Champ & Associates
Not specified in supplied notesThe supplied research note describes Ottawa employment and human-rights litigation, broad court advocacy, prior federal prosecution, and legal teaching. Confirm current client-side focus and availability directly with the linked source.
Browse by matter
