Lisa is a sought-after speaker and thought leader on all manner of issues related to employment law and investigations. She has served an Adjunct Professor with the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where she taught the law of the workplace in the Global Professional LLM program.

Lisa regularly instructs and lectures on employment law, class actions, investigations, harassment and advocacy, including for The Advocates’ Society, Law Society of Ontario, Ontario Bar Association, the Osgoode Professional Development, and the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA).

She writes frequently on employment law, white collar defence and investigations, and class actions and is the co-editor of the Canadian edition of Modern Trial Advocacy: Analysis & Practice (3rd Canadian edition), which is used in law schools and advocacy programs across Canada.

Lisa is a member of the Labour and Employment and Class Actions sections of the Ontario Bar Association and served on the Executive of the Labour and Employment Law Section from 2013 to 2015 and 2018 to 2019. She is also a member of CACE (Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers), the Association of Workplace Investigators and the Women’s White Collar Defense Association.

Further, she is the Co-Chair of the University Tribunal (Trial Division) at the University of Toronto and serves as College Solicitor to Massey College. She is a former member of the Board of Governors of the Sterling Hall School and the Board of Directors of Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief.

During law school, Lisa studied international and comparative law at the Universite Pantheon–Assas (Paris II) in Paris.

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