Jeffrey Goodman practises employment litigation, labour law, human rights, and occupational health and safety law, primarily advising employers, at Heenan Blaikie in Toronto. He is also a mediator. Jeffrey is currently the leader of the Toronto Labour and Employment Practice Group and a member of the firm’s National Management Committee. He regularly appears before all levels of the Ontario and Federal courts and various administrative tribunals, including the Labour Relations Boards and the Human Rights Tribunals for Ontario and Canada. Jeffrey also acts as counsel and advisor to corporations and insurance companies on issues such as wrongful dismissal, directors’ and offi cers’ liability, and employee class action lawsuits. He has also acted as an expert on Canadian employment law in international employment litigation.

A frequent public speaker, Jeffrey regularly chairs and co-chairs conferences on employment, human rights and labourrelated matters. He is the co-author of A Guide to Alternative Work Relationships and is the coordinating editor and a contributing author of the employment, labour, human rights and privacy law chapters in Ultimate Corporate Counsel Guide. He has also authored and co-authored numerous papers and articles on a wide range of employment and labour subjects for legal journals, periodicals, magazines, newspapers, as well as for legal, accounting and human resources conferences. Jeffrey
teaches employment law at Queen’s University’s Faculty of Law. He has a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario (1985) and an LL.B from Osgoode Hall (1988), and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1990.