Amy Derickx
Automatically compiled listing. Details may contain errors.Partner at Gowling WLG
- Called to the bar
- 2014
- Languages
- English
Employment & Labour Law
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Amy Derickx advises employers in Ottawa as a partner with Gowling WLG. The work covers employment contracts and workplace policies, planning a termination, and defending wrongful dismissal suits and human rights complaints once they're filed. Amy also does disability insurance defence work.
Called to the Ontario bar in 2014, Amy earned a JD at the University of Ottawa after an undergraduate degree in journalism and political science at Carleton. Amy's background is in health law: Amy was an associate on Gowling WLG's medical defence side, handling professional liability, privacy and discipline files, and also spent time as a legal advisor with the Canadian Nurses Protective Society, where the job was advising and educating registered nurses and nurse practitioners from across the country. From there Amy moved into the firm's Employment, Labour & Equalities Group, and joined the partnership effective January 1, 2023.
Amy has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and Small Claims Court, the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, the Health Professions Appeal and Review Board, and the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Trade secrets law is another of Amy's areas of focus.
Away from the office, Amy plays ringette, gets out on a bike, and takes the dog for walks.
Practice areas
Employment advice and disputes for employers
Amy helps employers with contracts, workplace policies and termination planning, and steps in on the litigation side when a former employee brings a wrongful dismissal claim or a human rights complaint. Arbitration clauses in employment agreements were the subject of a 2025 conference talk.
Disability insurance defence
Alongside the employment work, Amy practises disability insurance defence.
Education & credentials
- Called to the bar of Ontario (2014)
- JD, University of Ottawa (2013)
- Public International Law programme, Queen's University Bader International Study Centre (2011)
- BA Journalism, combined Honours in Political Science, Carleton University (2010)
Publications & speaking
- Considerations for Using Arbitration Provisions in Employment Agreements, 31st East Region Solicitors Conference, County of Carleton Law Association, Fairmont Tremblant (2025)
- Fixed-term contracts: Perils and pitfalls, Gowling WLG Employment, Labour & Equalities Law Webinar Series (on demand) (2023)
- More Ontario public health measures lifted, Gowling WLG Insights (2022)
- Feb. 17, 2022 marks Ontario's next phase of reopening, Gowling WLG Insights (2022)
- The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: a tool to be used by Canadian courts (unpublished paper), International Conference on Law and Society, Honolulu (2012)
- Draft study on the practice of UN Organs on Charter Article 103, Repertory of Practice of United Nations Organs, Supplement No. 10 (2000-2009)
In the community
- Amy volunteers as a director of a condominium corporation.
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