Alia Stephanie Besharat
Biography
Alia is currently an Associate Lawyer at Ogletree Deakins' Toronto office where she practices a broad range of management side labour and employment matters.
Robert J. Richler
Biography
Robert is a lawyer and human resource advisor at Bernardi Human Resource Law. He has obtained a wide range of experience as an employment and labour lawyer, both as in-house counsel and in private practice. His time as in-house counsel coupled with his MBA has given Robert great insight into the needs of organizations. He is attuned to the types of considerations organizations must weigh when making decisions regarding their employees. Robert works with both unionized and non-unionized employers to find innovative ways to resolve conflicts and legal challenges in a cost-effective manner that is sensitive to the business needs of an organization. Robert advises employers and employees in contract negotiations, terminations, wrongful dismissals and collective bargaining matters. Robert also conducts workplace training and investigations. Robert has successfully represented clients at all levels of court in Ontario, as well as at the Human Rights Tribunal and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal. He has also appeared as counsel at federal inquiries, mediations, arbitrations, trials and before various regulators. Robert takes pride in his ability to help parties resolve workplace challenges in situations they believed could not be resolved. Robert is a member of the Law Society of Ontario, the Canadian Bar Association, the executive of the Ontario Bar Association's Labour and Employment Division and the Mensa Canada Society.
Mitchell Rose
Biography
Mitchell Rose is an Ontario mediator, arbitrator and principal of Rose Dispute Resolution. He helps clients prepare and present their dispute case for settlement. Mitchell provides in-person, virtual and hybrid alternative dispute resolution services in Ontario covering a wide range of civil disputes, including: (employer and employee) employment law; business conflicts (including shareholder remedies and partnership issues); corporate-commercial disputes; debt and mortgage enforcement; estate litigation-insurance matters; professional negligence, and; real estate transaction issues and commercial tenancies.
Inna Koldorf
Biography
Inna is an employment and labour lawyer and a workplace investigator at Miller Thomson LLP. She assists companies with managing their workforce and addressing human resources legal matters. Inna completed a double major in Sociology and Law & Society before completing her law degree. Inna previously served as the Vice-President of the Northview Heights Early Learning Centre Board of Directors, a member of the Ontario Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Division Continuing Legal Education Committee, a member of the Ontario Labour Relations Board Advisory Committee, a Director on the Board of Directors of the Yellow Brick House and a Director on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Mental Health Association of York and South Simcoe. She is currently serving on the Ontario Bar Association Labour and Employment Law Section Executive.
Alycia Riley
Biography
Public Affairs Liaison, OBA Labour & Employment Law Section (2025-26) Member-at-Large, OBA Data Privacy Law Section (2025-26)
Alex Treiber
Biography
Founder & Principal Lawyer @ Treiber Law: Workplace Law, a law firm advising workers and businesses about their workplace rights.
Hilary Cook
Biography
Since her call to the Bar in 2001, Hilary Cook has worked in the areas of Labour, Employment, and Human Rights. Hilary also has experience in Professional Regulation, short- and long-term disability claims, workplace Health and Safety, Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, and Workers' Compensation, among other areas of law. Hilary's twenty years of labour relations and grievance experience include hospitals, health care, post-secondary (Universities and Community Colleges), community agencies, developmental services, arts and culture, not-for-profit, government workplaces as well as large and small private sector and for-profit employers. Hilary teaches university courses in employment law, labour law, workplace mediation, and educational law.
Oksana Romanov
Biography
I am a criminal defence lawyer (September 2023 Call) and former Assistant Crown Attorney (Acting) with work experience in two Ontario jurisdictions: Central West & Northeast Regions. I also served with distinction as a Judicial Law Clerk to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. I hold a JD with Distinction (2023) from the Lincoln Alexander School of Law, Toronto Metropolitan University. I have a Masters in Communication from the State University of New York-at Albany, where I studied as the recipient of the U.S. Fulbright Fellowship, one of the most prestigious academic scholarships for graduate students internationally.
Alex Treiber
Biography
Founder & Principal Lawyer @ Treiber Law: Workplace Law, a law firm advising workers and businesses about their workplace rights.
Dan Palayew
Biography
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