Kyra Nicolacopoulos (she/they) is an articling student based in the firm’ s Ottawa office. Prior to entering the legal sphere, she cultivated her passion for advocacy through her undergraduate research and activism with the queer community in Southwestern Alberta. Her appreciation for unions also lies in Alberta, where she was a unionized public library worker for ten years.
She moved to Ottawa in 2022 to formalize her passion for advocacy through the University of Ottawa’s Juris Doctor program. Her law school experience included work at a local legal clinic on disability rights matters and as a writing leader through the Point First Legal Writing Academy. She was fortunate to work at RavenLaw as a summer student in 2024 and was equally fortunate to work at Egale Canada during her summer student secondment.
Kyra graduated summa cum laude in 2025 and is happy to rejoin the firm as an articling student. In her spare time, Kyra enjoys softball, open world video games, and hanging out with her cats.
Anthony is an articling student in the firm’s Ottawa office. He received his Juris Doctor from the University of Ottawa.
Committed to fighting for the little guy, during his studies, Anthony was a coordinator and caseworker for the Ticket Defence Program, representing unhoused and marginalized persons charged with poverty-related offences; and he worked for a prisoner legal support organization, seeking to ensure, among other things, that their human rights are respected.
Outside of the office, between injuries, Anthony likes to skateboard and train in martial arts.
Anthony is fluent in French and English.
Candace Nguyen is an Articling Student based in the firm’s Toronto office. Before joining the firm, Candace worked as a Housing Caseworker at Parkdale Community Legal Services, appearing before the Landlord and Tenant Board. She worked with Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW) during her secondment as a summer student at RavenLaw. Candace is passionate about community development, workers’ rights, and the right to housing.
Candace received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Toronto in International Development where she received the Global Development Studies Award. She holds a Juris Doctor from Osgoode Hall Law School. In her last year of Osgoode, she was a Research Assistant for Professor Faisal Bhabha. Before law school, she worked as a barista, piano teacher, and Costco merchandiser, among other things.
Candace enjoys reading, playing board games with her friends and family, and learning new things. She particularly enjoys learning languages and one day hopes to be conversational in Japanese and Vietnamese.
Kassandra Lawson is a dedicated advocate for the rights of injured workers.
Kassandra is a paralegal in the firm’s Ottawa office and provides legal services in the area of Workplace Safety and Insurance Board Claims and Appeals both at WSIB and the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal.
Andrew works to advance the law in areas that will benefit workers and vulnerable groups. He represents unions in the federal public sector and elsewhere and has extensive experience in judicial review and appellate litigation. Andrew has been involved in leading cases on the duty to accommodate family status, essential services, public service pension litigation, and the collective rights of workers under the Charter. Andrew also represented current and former members of the Canadian Armed Forces in a historic class action regarding sexual misconduct in the military, which resulted in a $900 million settlement. He has appeared before labour arbitrators, administrative tribunals, and all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada.
Andrew is a part-time professor at the Faculty of Law at the University of Ottawa, where he teaches an advanced labour law seminar. He is regularly invited to speak at conferences on a range of legal issues. Andrew previously served as a law clerk for the Honourable Justice John Evans at the Federal Court of Appeal.
NOTABLE CASES
- Fraser v Canada (Attorney General), 2020 SCC 28 [represented intervener in landmark adverse impact discrimination case under section 15 of the Charter]
- Heyder v Canada (Attorney General), 2019 FC 1477 [settlement for current and former members of Canadian Armed Forces and employees of the Department of National Defence who experienced gender discrimination, sexual harassment, and sexual assault]
- McIlvenna v Bank of Nova Scotia (Scotiabank), 2019 FC 1610 [ruling setting aside Canadian Human Rights Commission decision and directing the Commission to refer the complaint to the Tribunal]
- Public Service Alliance of Canada v Treasury Board (Department of Citizenship and Immigration), 2018 FPSLREB 74 [the employer breached the collective agreement by failing to establish a “voluntary program” when it relocated the Vegreville immigration case processing centre to Edmonton]
- Saskatchewan Federation of Labour v Saskatchewan, 2015 SCC 4 [represented intervener in ruling recognizing a constitutional right to strike under section 2(d) of the Charter]
- Mounted Police Association of Ontario v Attorney General of Canada, 2015 SCC 1 [represented intervener in appeal recognizing that section 2(d) of the Charter requires independence and choice in selecting worker associations]
- Canada (Attorney General) v Johnstone, 2014 FCA 110; Fiona Ann Johnstone v Canada Border Service Agency, 2010 CHRT 20 [ruling confirming requirement that employers accommodate the family obligations of their employees]
- Telecommunications Employees Association of Manitoba Inc v Manitoba Telecom Services Inc, 2014 SCC 11 [ruling that $43 million surplus that existed when Manitoba Telecom Services was privatized belonged to workers]
- Public Service Alliance of Canada v Statistical Survey Operations, 2014 PSLRB 83 [preliminary decision that ultimately led to $45 million pay equity settlement for interviewers and senior interviewers at SSO]
- Public Service Alliance of Canada v. Canada Post Corporation, 2011 SCC 57 [$150 million pay equity ruling reinstating decision of the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal]
