Firm News

Koskie Glavin Gordon is pleased to welcome Robert Logue as an associate specializing in labour and human rights law to the firm. Robert fostered an interest in labour and human rights law during his studies at the University of Victoria. He completed four co-op work terms, which allowed him to gain international experience. By participating …

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Koskie Glavin Gordon is partnering with other organizations to intervene in an important case about systemic discrimination at the B.C. Court of Appeal.  The case is VANDU v. Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association, which was brought on behalf of a group of street homeless people in downtown Vancouver who were forcibly removed from Vancouver’s public …

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Koskie Glavin Gordon is pleased to announce that on June 1, 2015 Patricia Deol joined the firm as an associate specializing in labour and administrative law. Since being called to the bar in 2000 Patty has spent the majority of her career practicing at a boutique labour law firm, where she advised clients in the public and …

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We are pleased to offer our congratulations to our affiliate firm, Koskie Minsky LLP, on the consistent May 12, 2015 decisions of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) and the United States Bankruptcy Court which require that the allocation of assets from the sale of Nortel’s businesses and intellectual property be based on …

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Koskie Glavin Gordon is pleased to announce that Devyn Cousineau will be joining the firm on April 15, 2015, as an associate specializing in human rights and administrative law. Devyn has been a lawyer since 2009, after clerking at the BC Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. She has spent the last …

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On January 1, 2015, Koskie Glavin Gordon moved to its new offices in downtown Vancouver.  Our new address is 409 Granville Street, Suite 1650.  Our phone and fax numbers remain the same.

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Koskie Glavin Gordon partner Anthony Glavin persuaded Palo Alto, California arbitrator, John Kagel, that Lifetime Job Guarantee agreements affecting Pressmen and a Mailer were applicable in the context of a contracting out of the employer’s presses.  Anthony was ably assisted by Carol Whittome on the file. The Lifetime Job Guarantees were negotiated in 1979 between …

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Koskie Glavin Gordon successfully represented two transit operators in companion cases recently released by the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal. The transit operators had taken time off for medical conditions which the employer acknowledged were legitimate. Nevertheless, the employer sent the operators repeated letters threatening their termination if they “continued to miss work for any reason”. …

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Koskie Glavin Gordon is acting as legal counsel for the United Steelworkers whose complaint alleging employment discrimination against temporary foreign workers at a Tim Hortons franchise in Fernie, British Columbia has been accepted for filing by the Human Rights Tribunal of British Columbia As summarized by the Human Rights Tribunal, the complaint alleges discrimination in employment …

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Koskie Glavin Gordon is pleased to announce that firm partner Charles Gordon has been selected as one of the recipients of the International Solidarity Award by CoDevelopment Canada. This year’s award will be presented to the “Defenders of Justice for Migrant Workers,” including the Construction and Specialized Workers’ Union Local 116, the BC Building Trades, …

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