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Jack Graham

Jack Graham QC

Partner

Office
Halifax
Tel: 902.444.8543
Fax: 902.425.6350

Assistant
Diane Bedford

Profile

Jack is a Partner in our Halifax office who practices labour and employment law, with a focus on employment litigation, arbitrations, collective bargaining, labour relations, human rights, workers compensation and occupational health and safety. He has represented many employers in union organizing campaigns and has successfully defended employers against wrongful dismissal claims in the Supreme Court of Nova Scotia. He was involved in most major public sector amalgamations in Nova Scotia from 1993 until 2006, including school boards, hospitals, health boards and colleges. Jack is national counsel for several customer contact and technology companies in Canada. He is recognized by Best Lawyers in Canada 2010 in the area of Labour and Employment Law and Lexpert as a Leading Practitioner.

 

Jack is a member of the Canadian Bar Association, the Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society and the Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers. He is the immediate Past Chair of the Board of Tennis Canada, was Vice President of the English Liberal Party of Canada (2000-2005) and a former Board Member with the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation. Jack is currently the Vice Chair of Tennis Canada and the first Canadian to be elected to the Board of the International Tennis Federation.

Education

  • LL.B., Dalhousie University (1988)
  • B.Ed., Dalhousie University (1985)
  • B.A., Acadia University (1978)
Legal Update: 10 Tips to Deal with Employee Discipline for Social Media Use
March  1, 2012

<p>Social media represents a profound cultural shift and employers must adapt if they want to avoid unnecessary – and potentially costly – trouble. The recent explosion in social media use means there are many more issues – and adjudicative decisions. As employment law evolves in response to the prevalence of social media in our day-to-day

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Bar Admissions

Nova Scotia (1989)

Jack Graham, QC to be inducted into Nova Scota Sports Hall of Fame
June  5, 2012

<p>Jack Graham has built tennis locally, nationally and internationally for over 30 years. In 1981 he received the highest level of teaching designation from the US Professional Tennis Registry, which, at the time, was the largest organization in the world that certified tennis coaches. Starting as development coordinator for the Nova Scotia Tennis Association, he

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