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Paralegal Services

Our firm’s senior paralegal, Titus Gregory, is a Designated Paralegal as well as a participant in the Innovation Sandbox Program of the Law Society of British Columbia. As such, he can independently provide cost-effective legal advice and representation to individuals, non-profits, trade unions, and businesses in the areas of Employment and Labour Law and Societies and Non-Profits Law. Mr. Gregory can represent clients directly before the Provincial Court of British Columbia (on small claims matters), labour arbitrators, and administrative tribunals such as the BC Labour Relations Board, the Canada Industrial Relations Board, the BC Human Rights Tribunal, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, the BC Civil Resolution Tribunal, WorkSafeBC, and the Workers’ Compensation Appeal Tribunal.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of legal services that Mr. Gregory can provide as an independent paralegal:

  • Societies and Non-Profits Law:​

    • Incorporation and dissolution

    • Corporate legal services, such as filing annual reports

    • preparing, reviewing, amending, and interpreting bylaws and policies

    • drafting and revising constitutions, bylaws, and policies

    • elections and referenda, including the development of election codes and the adjudication of complaints

    • annual general meetings and special general meetings

    • Board governance issues

    • membership disputes

    • employment and labour relations

    • human rights issues

    • harassment complaints

  • Employment Law:​

    • Termination of employment (both with cause and without cause)

    • Wrongful dismissal

    • Constructive dismissal

    • Severance pay

    • Discipline

    • Workplace investigations

    • Drafting, amending, and interpreting individual employment contracts

    • Human rights issues in the workplace

    • Harassment and discrimination in the workplace

    • Workplace accommodation

    • Workers’ compensation issues

  • Labour Law:​

    • Grievances

    • Duty of fair representation complaints

    • Certifications

    • Change of union representation

    • Trade union governance

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See No-Action Letter from the Law Society of British Columbia

 

Mr. Gregory is also a professional parliamentarian, with over 20 years of experience. Mr. Gregory has acted as external chair or parliamentarian of general meetings and board of directors meetings for a number of not-for-profit organizations, with attendance ranging from less than 20 to over 500 people. He has successfully handled many contentious meetings, including controverted elections, motions without notice, points of order, challenges to the chair, and impeachments and censures of directors and officers.

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