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Dylan Snowdon

Dylan Snowdon

Canada 2027

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About

Provided by Carbert Waite LLP

Canada

Practice Areas

Employment and Labour Law

Professional Memberships

Law Society of Alberta (2010)

Tribunal Member, Alberta Human Rights Commission (2025)

Canadian Bar Association

Calgary Bar Association

Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers

Personal

Since 2013, Dylan has regularly guest lectured at the University of Calgary and Mount Royal University on employment law and human resources. In 2022, he joined the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Law, where he teaches Law 561: Employment Law.

Experience

Dylan is an accomplished advocate, mediator, and arbitrator with extensive experience representing individuals, businesses, employers, and employees before Alberta’s courts, the Federal Court of Canada, and various administrative and quasi-judicial tribunals. His practice encompasses employment and labour matters, commercial and civil litigation, professional liability and negligence claims, workplace investigations, partnership and shareholder disputes, privacy matters, and contractual disputes. He regularly advises clients on workplace policies, employment agreements, terminations, regulatory compliance, and strategies to manage legal risk and liability.

Dylan has extensive dispute resolution experience and regularly assists clients through mediation, arbitration, negotiation, and settlement processes. He conducts private mediations, with a particular focus on workplace and employment disputes, and brings experience acting for both plaintiffs and defendants to his practical approach to resolving complex matters.

Dylan has also held a number of adjudicative appointments. He was appointed as a Tribunal Member of the Alberta Human Rights Commission in 2025, where he adjudicates human rights matters, conducts case management hearings and mediations, and reviews certain Director’s dismissal decisions. In 2026, he was appointed to the Employment Insurance Board of Appeal. Previously, he served as Vice-Chair of the City of Calgary Licence and Community Standards Appeal Board from 2010 to 2022.

Education

Osgoode Hall Law School

Certificate in Pension Law

2015

University of Alberta

Bachelor of Laws

2009

Alberta College of Art and Design

Bachelor of Fine Arts

2004

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Alberta, Canada

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Chambers Canada Guide

Employment & Labour - Alberta

Band 4
Band 4

Individual Editorial

Dylan Snowdon is an experienced employment lawyer with a strong track record of representing both employers and employees. He is particularly adept at handling wrongful dismissal cases and injunction applications regarding the use of confidential information by former employees.

Strengths

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  • Dylan takes a reasonable and balanced approach and shows commercial awareness. He seeks to understand the nuance of situations.

    Employment & LabourChambers Canada Guide

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