CPHR BC & Yukon

Colin’s practice focuses on labour and employment law, workers’ compensation, occupational health and safety, privacy law and human rights. He is a trusted advisor and counsel to workplaces of all sizes, and takes pride in providing responsive, methodical and common-sense legal advice. Colin also assists clients with commercial litigation matters including shareholder disputes. Colin has appeared as counsel at all levels of court in British Columbia, the Federal Court, collective agreement grievance arbitrations and various administrative tribunals, including the Human Rights Tribunal, Employment Standards Tribunal, British Columbia Labour Relations Board, WorkSafe BC and Liquor Control and Licensing Branch. Colin frequently presents on workplace law issues to other lawyers, human resources professionals and organizations. He also regularly drafts a variety of employment-related documents including employment contracts, restrictive covenants, handbooks, and bullying and harassment policies. Colin was born and raised in Kelowna. After graduating from the University of Victoria Faculty of Law, he worked in the Vancouver office of a large international law firm and Western Canada’s largest workplace law firm. Prior to graduating from law school, Colin worked in the International Arbitration Group at the Paris office of a large international law firm, the Permanent Mission of Canada to the Organization of American States in Washington, DC, and the British Columbia Securities Commission. He also served as the special assistant to a Member of Parliament in Ottawa. Colin is proud to support the community as a board member of the Okanagan College Foundation. *Providing services through a law corporation.

Jim is an employment lawyer and has practiced exclusively in this area since 2018, first in his own solo employment law practice and with Forte Law since 2019. Jim loves going to court to give his clients a voice and has run as many as five trials in a single year. He never backs down from challenges, and one of his trials ran for more than a week with dozens of witnesses. Before law school, Jim worked an Employment Insurance adjudicator and made decisions on 1000’s of EI claims. This experience has been incredibly valuable to him in advising clients about Employment Insurance matters and appeals, and in representing his clients before courts and administrative tribunals. Once you sit in the decision-maker’s chair, you look at everything differently.