Practice profile - Partner with the firm's Labour & Employment practice group advising on a wide variety of labour, employment, human rights, occupational and health and safety, personnel, and privacy issues
- Focus is on education law:
- school board governance,
- school board / trustee legal issues,
- school board meetings (procedure),
- student issues (suspensions, expulsions, privacy, searches, evaluation, safety, harassment, etc.),
- staff (labour, employment, privacy, evaluation, suspensions, terminations, etc.),
- school board agreements,
- intellectual property,
- constitutional,
- school board policy, including field trip / supervision / liability issues,
- custody and access issues as they relate to schools,
- school board collective bargaining issues and draft of school board collective agreements,
- school closures,
- school board criminal related matters, etc.
- Founder of the Canadian Bar Association education law section (formed in 2004)
- Articled with the Quebec Court of Appeal in Quebec City; winner of best team and second best factum in the Laskin Constitutional / Administrative Law Moot Competition (1989)
- Worked as legal counsel to the Court of Queen's Bench of Alberta in Edmonton
- Worked in the legal department at the Alberta School Boards' Association, representing a majority of school boards in Alberta
- Set up the legal department at Edmonton Catholic Schools and created monthly Law with Lunch seminars for school administrators
Representative work - Advise and represent school boards, central office personnel and administrators
- Advise and represent central office personnel, administrators and teachers charged with unprofessional conduct complaints
- Taught for a major school board for two years at the junior high level and organized debating and public speaking competitions within the school and within the city
- Appear before administrative tribunals and all levels of the Alberta Courts
- Advisory Committee, Faculté St Jean, University of Alberta; Director on the Friars' Board; President of St. Thomas More Lawyers Guild (2004 / 2005); Co-chair of 2004 Red Mass and Tribute Dinner to Chief Justice Allan H. Wachowich; Board director on CAPSLE (the Canadian Association for the Practical Study of Law in Education), board member of the Senate of Newman Theological College in St. Albert, Alberta
- Teaches Business Law (in French) to business students at the Faculté St Jean, University of Alberta
- Papers include: Constructive Dismissal of Teachers and the Alberta Board of Reference (2004), Teacher Sexual Torts: A School Board, Teacher and Association Perspective (2003)
- Regularly gives presentations to school boards, superintendents, central office school board personnel, and school administrators on current edu-law topics; presents annually at CAPSLE - the 2004 presentation was presented in French
- B.A. from the University of Alberta (French), Teacher's Diploma from L'Université du Québec à Chicoutimi and Certificate in French Civilization and Culture from the Sorbonne, Paris, France
To contact Teresa, call 780.482.9247 or email thaykowsky@mross.com
Bar Admissions
Quebec, 1991
Alberta, 1997
Education
Universite Laval, 1990, LL.B.
Professional Associations and Memberships
Advisory Committee, Faculté St Jean, University of Alberta
Director, Friars'' Board
President, St. Thomas More Lawyers Guild (2004 / 2005)
Co-chair, 2004 Red Mass and Tribute Dinner to Chief Justice Allan H. Wachowich
Board director, Canadian Association for the Practical Study of Law in Education
Board member, Senate of Newman Theological College, St. Albert, Alberta
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