Practice profile - Partner in the firm practising administrative law with the major focus on employment law
- Acts as management counsel in matters before employment law tribunals, including the Labour Relations Board, Occupational Health and Safety Council, Human Rights Tribunal, Workers' Compensation Appeal Commission and arbitrators
- Extensive experience negotiating collective agreements, employment contracts, occupational health and safety, and workers' compensation
- Appointed Queen's Counsel (Q.C.) in 1985 and received his Chartered Arbitrator (C.Arb.) designation in 1989
Representative work - Awarded Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating ("AV"), which shows that a lawyer has reached the height of professional excellence - has usually practised law for many years, and is recognized for the highest levels of skill and integrity
- Recognized in The Canadian Legal LEXPERT Directory as a "leading practitioner" in employment law, labour relations, transportation and workplace human rights
- Listed in Best Lawyers in Canada in 2008 under Labour and Employment Law
- Counsel to construction industry employers in leading drug and alcohol arbitration cases
- Counsel to construction industry employers relating to their collective bargaining
- Counsel in a major collective bargaining dispute in the meat packing industry
- Counsel to newspaper publishers on applicability of workers' compensation legislation to newspaper deliverers
- Counsel to major trucking company on acquisition of operating authority certification for general merchandise throughout Canada
- Governor and Chair, The Banff Centre; Member, Calgary Convention Centre Authority
- Named a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International (1997)
- Board Chair responsible for construction of the Francis Winspear Centre for Music
To contact Phil, call 403.303.9104 or email pponting@mross.com.
Bar Admissions
Alberta, 1973
Education
Queen's University
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