Lisa leads Torys' Employment Litigation Practice and is the co-head of the firm's Pension and Employment group. She advises companies and boards of directors on all manner of human resources issues and represents them in contentious employment matters.

As a strategic advisor with sophisticated perspective, Lisa gives comprehensive guidance to clients, often behind the scenes, on their most complex employment matters with enterprise-wide implications, such as high-profile CEO and C-suite departures and hires, policy-setting, whistleblower programs and workplace-related investigations. She also advises companies undertaking investigations and leading investigations, particularly on sensitive employment matters such as allegations of executive and employee misconduct and sexual harassment. To help proactively mitigate crisis risk, Lisa works closely with leading Canadian businesses on crisis management, response and preparedness tactics.

Lisa is a skilled litigator with deep experience in employment class actions defence. She regularly acts for Canada’s largest employers on overtime and other employment class actions, as well as in wrongful dismissal claims, bonus disputes and human rights and harassment claims. She has appeared as counsel in the Supreme Court of Canada, in all levels of court in Ontario, in the Federal Court, and before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal.

Lisa is a member of Torys’ Executive Committee.

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