Helping you navigate legal issues critical to your organization’s success
Southern Law’s team of skilled lawyers guide workplaces and organizations experiencing conflict to find solutions that enhance their commitment to building a positive working environment.
We provide fair and neutral services in employment, labour, and human rights law in the context of investigations, mediations, arbitrations, assessments, governance & organization support, and training & coaching.
Our Mission
We have a collective attitude of 'anything is possible' if those involved can find a space to be creative, positive, and collaborative. We challenge and support leaders, employers, employees, unions to build respectful workplaces that thrive.
We are here to help when it’s hard - we support organizations that are responding to complex, serious, and contentious matters. We have built our reputation on being a reliable provider in times of crisis. We are dedicated to helping resolve conflict and poor morale with timely, fair processes that produce sustainable and positive change.
We will never stop learning and improving, and thinking of ways that we can support organizations to resolve conflict productively, and support positive internal culture.
Sectors We Serve
Government
Natural Resources
Manufacturing & Utilities
Sport
Education (Kindergarten to Grade 12)
Education (Post-secondary)
Financial
Health Care
Unions
Hospitality
Film & Arts
Technology
Non-Profit & Social Service
Regulatory Bodies & Administrative Tribunals
Our Core Values
Fairness is key – neutrality is non-negotiable
Our paramount responsibility to clients is to ensure that the process we run is fair for all involved. This overarching requirement guides us in our work and how we manage complex, and at times fractious, matters.
Proportionality matters
The design of the legal response to every dispute should include an analysis of proportionality, relationships, and the long-term organizational strategy. Each approach needs to be tailored, including being sensitive to costs.
Timeliness equals respect for clients and their organizations
We understand the negative impact that these important legal processes can have on organizational culture and the individuals involved. Our goal is to ensure we run a fair, efficient process, and deliver timely answers to the organization to reduce disruption and create certainty for those involved.
We are the largest law firm that focuses on neutral investigation, mediation and arbitration work in Western Canada, and we are relied on by organizations from across Canada to assist with their most complex and serious issues.
We distinguish ourselves from other service providers through the robust investment we have made in our firm’s established structures and supports, including our legal resources (which include a team of paralegals, legal researcher, and the Director of Legal Services), admin and finance teams, our Chief Information Officer, Client Service Manager, and our Chief Operating Officer, who together ensure seamless service for our clients and demonstrate our firm’s dedication to professionalism and best practice in all aspects of our work.