Partner Toronto, T: 416.869.8550 C: 647.500.6824 F: 416.862.8247 jgoodman@mathewsdinsdale.com
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Law Society of Ontario
Osgoode Hall Law School, LL.B.
Western University, B.A.
America Employment Law Council (AELC)
American Bar Association
Canadian Bar Association
College of Labour and Employment Lawyers - Fellow: Elected
International Bar Association
International Forum on Employment Law
Ontario Bar Association
The Advocates’ Society
The Law Society of Ontario
Jeffrey is a commercial employment lawyer, mediator and senior member of the firm’s litigation group. He has acted as strategic advisor to his clients on a wide range of work- and business-related issues for over 30 years. He has a particularly high profile in the insurance, information technology and professional services industries.
Jeffrey specializes in employment, class action, trade secret, shareholder and oppression, commercial and defamation litigation. Jeffrey is regularly retained to act as an expert on Canadian employment and labour law in international and domestic litigation and is quoted on these topics by both the media and the courts.
Jeffrey is a prolific author and speaker, having presented before numerous organizations and conferences around the world and having authored, co-authored and/or edited numerous legal texts, papers and articles on a wide range of employment, human rights and labour law issues. He uses his strong business sense to provide his clients with strategic, practical and timely advice. In addition to being exceptionally responsive and accessible, he is dedicated to understanding his clients’ particular business needs and is committed to recommending the best possible course of action.
Jeffrey spent six years teaching employment law at Queen’s University Faculty of Law and was a member of the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario’s Practice Advisory Committee for six years. Jeffrey has completed Harvard Law School’s Lawyers’ Mediation Workshop. He is among a select few senior Canadian lawyers elected to the prestigious College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.
Jeffrey was the co-chair of the organizing committee of the American Bar Association’s Thurgood Marshall Dinner, a leading diversity event where he introduced the keynote speaker, Madame Justice Abella of the Supreme Court of Canada. Jeffrey is a Partner in our Toronto office.
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Labour & Employment
Who’s Who Legal – Thought LeaderLabour & Employment
Who’s Who Legal – Global LeaderLabour & Employment
Who’s Who Legal – National Leader, CanadaLabour, Employment & Benefits
The Best Lawyers in Canada™Labour and Employment Law
Canadian Legal Lexpert®Employment Law (Most Frequently Recommended)
Lexpert®/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in CanadaLabour and Employment Law
Expert Guides Best of the Best (formerly Expert’s Guide to the World’s Leading Employment and Labour Lawyers)Labour & Employment
Legal 500 CanadaLabour and Employment Law
3rd Annual International Conference on Risk, Reward and Reputation Management Issues for Senior Executives & Founders – Navigating a Business Divorce between Co-Founders – balancing the legal, commercial, reputational and often deeply emotional aspects of a co-founder break-up. One-Day In-Person Conference, London, England.
Presentation for Chubb Insurance Company of Canada
Emerging Issues in Directors’ and Officers’ Liability 2021, The Law Society of Ontario
International Constituency Meeting, National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, American Bar Association
Annual Review of Civil Litigation 2020, Carswell
Webinar, American Employment Law Counsel
Presentation for Zurich Insurance
International Labor and Employment Law Committee Midyear Meeting, American Bar Association
Law Society of Ontario: Emerging Issues in Directors’ and Officers’ Liability
CM Murray LLP Global Business Protections Conference: International Restrictive Covenants and Confidential Information Protections, London, England
International Bar Association: Annual Employment and Discrimination Conference
Ontario Bar Association: 16th Annual Current Issues in Employment Law
Fifth Transatlantic Conference, Employment Lawyers Association’s International Committee and American Bar Association International Labor & Employment Law, London, England
The International Forum on Employment Law, Kildare, Ireland
National Conference on Equal Employment Opportunity Law, American Bar Association, New Orleans, Louisiana
Mathews Dinsdale recognized by The Legal500 Canada 2023 as a leading firm in Labour and Employment, highlighting our national reach. Testimonial - "It is the only workplace law firm with offices from coast-to-coast, so being a national organization ourselves this is extremely important to us. It was Canada’s first law firm to devote its practice to employment law."
The Best Lawyers™ in Canada 2023 recognizes 24 Mathews Dinsdale lawyers, from coast-to-cost, as leaders in the fields of Labour and Employment Law, Workers' Compensation Law, Education Law, Employee Benefits Law and Immigration Law.
Who’s Who Legal Canada 2022 recognizes seven Mathews Dinsdale lawyers, from BC, ON and NS as Thought Leaders in the fields of Labour and Employment Law.
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