About Ogletree Deakins

Ogletree Deakins is a law firm that focuses on labor and employment law. It was founded on February 14, 1977, by a group of 16 attorneys based in Greenville and Atlanta. The firm opened its first office outside the United States in Berlin in 2012, and it has since grown into an international practice with more than 1,000 attorneys in 57 offices across the United States, Canada, Mexico and Europe.

The firm's Toronto office opened in January 2016, staffed initially by a small group of lawyers who had left a large Canadian firm to build a Canadian and cross-border employment law practice. Ogletree Deakins also has Canadian offices in Montreal and Calgary. Today the Toronto office, at 220 Bay Street in the city's financial district, lists more than a dozen lawyers who advise employers, school boards, social service providers and municipalities on employment law, labour relations, human rights complaints and workplace investigations.

In the community

  • A lawyer at the Toronto office co-chairs the advisory board of the Centre for Law in the Contemporary Workplace at Queen's University's law school.
  • Another lawyer at the office teaches as an adjunct professor at the University of Toronto.

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This firm’s lawyers at a glance

Called to the bar
2016–2019 · median 8 years in practice 2 of 38 lawyers
Law schools
Queen's University (3), University of Toronto (2), Western University (2), Dalhousie University, Université du Québec à Montréal, University of Essex and 3 more 13 of 38 lawyers
Languages on the roster
English, French

Where to find them

220 Bay Street, Suite 1100, Toronto, ON M5J 2W4 · 888-868-9756

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