Lisa Cabel

About Lisa Cabel

Lisa Cabel is a partner with Gowling WLG in Toronto, working in the firm's Employment, Labour & Equalities Group. Cabel acts for employers of every size, from entrepreneurial ventures and family-owned companies to large organizations in both the public and private sectors, and works closely with their business leaders and HR teams.

Much of the work arrives when a lot is on the line: labour disputes, human rights complaints, workplace investigations, and problems that carry real legal, operational or reputational risk. Cabel has led management's side in dozens of collective bargaining negotiations and regularly appears for clients in grievance arbitrations. Pay equity and modern slavery compliance are a big part of the practice too, including Canada's supply chain reporting law on forced and child labour (Bill S-211).

Called to the Ontario bar in 2005, Cabel came to Gowling WLG from KPMG Canada. As a partner there, Cabel led the national employment and labour law practice and widened what the team could take on, adding pay equity, modern slavery compliance and investigations work. That adds up to more than 20 years of advising employers on workplace and organizational matters.

Cabel wrote the second edition of the Ontario Litigator's Guide to Human Rights Practice and often speaks, writes and comments in the media on workplace law. Outside the office, Cabel cares about mentoring and about opening doors for women in leadership, has sat on the Board of Directors of The Breakfast Club of Canada since 2019, and has mentored with the Toronto Argos through the Women-in-CFL Program.