Understanding motivation key to resolving legal disputes
- Condominium Group
- Dec 30, 2007
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Understanding motivation key to resolving legal disputes
December 31, 2007
As a teenager, Toronto labour and employment lawyer Stefan Rosenbaum's part-time job as a grocery store cashier in Winnipeg gave him an early taste of workplace issues that now inform his main practice area.
“At a really young age, I realized the benefits a union — and an understanding of your rights as an employee — could bring,” says Rosenbaum, an associate at Shibley Righton LLP, the full-service, mid-sized Toronto firm where he articled in 2015-16. “You had somebody you could go to. When you have a union, they’re always looking out for you.”
He later had the eye-opening experience of working as a manual labourer in Fort McMurray, the heart of Alberta’s oil sands, for a seismic exploration company, where he and other employees were encouraged to work more than 50 days in a row.
“There is very little regulation. It’s just so far removed geographically, and completely run on an ad-hoc basis,” Rosenbaum tells AdvocateDaily.com. “So, it gives you a glimpse of what happens when things are done that way, and when people may not know their rights.”
While he particularly enjoys employment and labour cases, Rosenbaum handles a range of issues in his general litigation practice.
“I’ve gotten pretty much everything,” he says, including municipal and professional liability and commercial litigation cases.
One notable case was acting for a pension fund in South America that was defrauded of approximately $45 million by several parties, including some in Ontario.
This is an excerpt of an article that appeared on AdvocateDaily.com.
