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Alison McEwen practises at Raven, Cameron, Ballantyne & Yazbeck LLP in the areas of labour law, employment law, and litigation. She represents unions across Canada, with a focus on Ottawa and Eastern Ontario. Alison does work for individual clients and union clients, with experience at the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court and the Court of Appeal, and the Ontario Superior Court, as well as at the Ontario Labour Relations Board, arbitration, mediation, and the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. Her areas of practice include education, health sector, municipal, retail and service, transportation, and public service labour relations. Alison has experience negotiating collective agreements and has advised unions in numerous other collective bargaining problems.
Alison is also active in education, including teaching employment law in the common-law section of the University of Ottawa law school. Alison is involved with the Women’s Legal Mentorship Program at the University of Ottawa. During law school, she was a clinician and then later a clinic head at the Law Students’ Legal Advice in B.C., completed a term as the coordinator of the Pro Bono Students Canada program at the University of British Columbia (UBC), and was heavily involved in the UBC Law Careers Committee.
Prior to being called to the Ontario Bar, Alison spent 2010–2011 as a judicial law clerk with the judges of the East Region of the Superior Court of Justice.
Alison holds a J.D. from the University of British Columbia. She was called to the Ontario Bar in 2012 and the Nunavut Bar in 2015.
