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| Jeffrey Goodman practices 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 practice group 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 officers’ 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 labour-related 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 of 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 has often been quoted as an expert on employment, labour and human rights law issues, including employee class actions, by Ontario courts including the Superior Court and Court of Appeal, and in the print press. Jeffrey teaches employment law at Queen's University, Faculty of Law. He has a BA from the University of Western Ontario (1985) and an LLB from Osgoode Hall (1988), and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1990. |
