Christine Plante

Christine Plante provides full-service legal advice and representation for all employment, labour and human resource needs. Her experience as corporate counsel to a large federally-regulated employer offers a unique perspective to providing client services. Christine knows the importance of providing responsive, sound and practical legal advice.

Christine effectively represents clients at all level of court and in administrative hearings, arbitrations and mediations. She has a number of reported decisions defending wrongful and constructive dismissals and enforcing restrictive covenants.

Christine provides management support for all human resource needs including preparing employment contracts, policies and compensation plans; investigating workplace harassment, discrimination and fraud complaints; advising on drug and alcohol testing, successorship planning, dismissals and general workplace practices; guiding clients through M&A transactions, restructuring and downsizing; and enforcing confidentiality agreements and non-competition/non-solicitation covenants.

Christine has significant experience with various extraordinary remedies for effective fraud recovery, which overlaps with her employment practice when assisting clients in recovering assets and protecting confidential and proprietary information.