Who We Are
Sherrard Kuzz LLP is one of Canada’s leading employment and labour law firms exclusively representing employers. Recognized nationally and internationally our team is consistently named among Canada’s Top Employment and Labour Firms by Canadian Lawyer®, Chambers Global®, Lexpert®, Best Lawyers®, Who’s Who Legal® and Legal 500®, and as a 5-Star Safety Law Firm for excellence in occupational health and safety by Canadian Occupational Safety®.
Our clients are public and private, domestic and foreign, unionized and non-unionized, subject to provincial or federal regulation, and range in size and complexity of operations from small, single-location, single-business enterprises to large, multi-site, multinational organizations.
As leaders in our field, our lawyers publish articles and lead national and international conferences on the full range of employment and labour law.
Our Core Values
Our Core Values define the manner in which we serve and interact with our clients and the community at large. They emphasize exemplary service, creativity, collaboration, respect, transparency and value:
We provide excellence in all respects and are passionate about our work. We love what we do and our goal is to not only to meet, but exceed, expectations. We appreciate clients choose from a range of service providers and are honoured when they choose Sherrard Kuzz LLP. Our mandate is to demonstrate our thanks with exceptional service, collaboration, trust and transparency, delivering on time and within budget, and making our clients look like stars.
We focus on outcomes and are business conscious. We understand clients operate in a business world, not a legal textbook. We ensure our advice is timely, cost-effective, practical and realistic within the larger business, political and cultural context.
We are creative and collaborate with our clients. We know “you can’t do that” is the easiest, and often safest, answer a legal advisor can offer. We also know this is not the kind of advice we are retained to provide. If we foresee a potential roadblock we collaborate with our client to navigate around it, minimizing risk and maximizing opportunity.
We do our homework. We spend considerable time – not billed – learning about each client’s priorities, objectives and culture. This detailed knowledge enhances our ability to assist clients proactively and strategically – often resolving issues before they become a concern.
We are accessible. Our live 24 hour telephone number is answered by a Sherrard Kuzz LLP lawyer, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, even on holidays. Many of our clients have 24 hour operations, or operate in a variety of time zones, and we are accustomed to serving them on their schedule. We believe this is another example of our unparalleled commitment to client service.
We are down to earth and respectful. We take our work very seriously, but we do not take ourselves seriously. We ensure every interaction with a member of our firm is professional, pleasant and productive. Our goal is to foster relationships in which clients look forward to working with us.
We foster and support an inclusive culture in which we treat one another with respect. Diverse backgrounds, experiences and perspectives bring tremendous value to our team. We embrace and celebrate our differences.
Our word is gold. We are transparent, accountable and trusted.
Our success as a firm can only be measured by the success of our clients.
In all of these ways, Sherrard Kuzz LLP is more than a law firm; our legal team strives to become a part of each client’s management team. This is our firm’s practice philosophy.
It informs the way we do business, distinguishes us from other law firms and ensures highly successful and lasting client relationships.