Lawyer

Claire practices labour, employment, and public law in our Ottawa office. She received her B.C.L./L.L.B from McGill’s Faculty of Law, and her B.A. (Hons.) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a Davis Scholar.

Claire has provided representation to clients in a range of workplace contexts federally and provincially, including on the legal issues surrounding whistleblower legislation, novel human rights claims, and emerging issues in workplace privacy law. In recent years, she has provided representation at all levels of court.

As a former Judicial Law Clerk at the Federal Court of Canada, she also brings significant expertise to administrative law issues. Claire is an alumnus of the Parliamentary Internship Programme and takes an interest in questions of law and public policy. She is currently completing a procedural textbook on the role of public interest interveners in Canadian courts (Intervening in Canadian Courts, forthcoming 2025).

Claire brings to her practice experience working and volunteering with a range of advocacy organizations—locally and internationally—to advance issues of social justice. Claire speaks English, French, Spanish, and some mandarin Chinese.