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Murphy Fries is a partner with Koskie Glavin Gordon, where she primarily represents trade unions and their members in a wide range of workplace issues, in the areas of collective agreement interpretation, labour relations, human rights, privacy rights, and benefits. She frequently advocates for unions before labour arbitrators and the B.C. Labour Relations Board, and she has appeared before the B.C. Supreme Court, the B.C. Court of Appeal, and the Federal Court. She works to advance the rights of unions and their members, whether through written and oral advocacy, or negotiating settlements to workplace disputes. Murphy has particular expertise in the areas of disability and health benefits, employee privacy, and human rights.
Murphy regularly volunteers with Access Pro Bono, providing summary advice services. She has served on the Access to Justice Committee of the Canadian Bar Association B.C. Branch (CBABC) and as a mentor with the University of British Columbia’s Centre for Feminist Legal Studies Mentorship Program and the CBABC Student Mentorship program. She is a frequent speaker at continuing legal education workshops and courses and regularly provides legal education to unions and their members.
Murphy holds a B.A., an LL.B., and an LL.M. in International Human Rights Law and International Labour Rights. She was called to the British Columbia Bar in 2007.
