Labour Law
We assist our trade union clients in representing their members throughout Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland and the rest of Canada. Our lawyers practice before labour arbitrators, labour relations boards and the courts. We provide trade unions with strategic counsel and advice on a range of issues regarding collective agreement negotiations, interpretation issues concerning constitutions and collective agreements, and governance issues.
Employment Law
We represent individual employees in all aspects of their relationships with employers, including contract negotiation, wrongful dismissal, harassment complaints, and occupational health and safety matters. We also negotiate on behalf of professionals in the public sector.
Administrative Law
Our lawyers practice in many areas of regulatory and administrative law, including workplace health and safety, environmental regulation, and utilities regulation.
Pension and Benefits
We provide legal advice to a wide range of pension and benefit funds, from small single-employer trusts to large multi-employer plans, on design and implementation of trusts for pension plans and health and welfare plans, advise trustees on fiduciary duties and governance, and litigate on their behalf.
Our lawyers practice across Canada, and are in demand as educators and speakers on pension and benefit issues.
Professional Regulation
We have a diverse practice in the area of self-regulated professions. Our lawyers represent professional bodies carrying out their regulatory mandates, as well as individual professionals facing professional discipline. In addition, members of the firm have served as Board chairs of, and as counsel to, professional disciplinary tribunals.
Criminal Law
We represent clients charged with offences under the Criminal Code of Canada, Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, and Income Tax Act, and provincial offences under the Nova Scotia Occupational Health and Safety Act and Motor Vehicle Act.
Municipal Law
Our municipal law team advises clients on a wide range of municipal law issues, and appears on behalf of our clients before the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board and the courts.
Entertainment and Innovation
In our entertainment practice, Pink Larkin represents artists and innovators who seek to develop and protect the products of their creative thinking. We represent individual clients in the music, television and film industries, as well as inventors and entrepreneurs from a diverse selection of other fields including medicine and software development.
