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Susan Philpott
Department Head - Pension
Email: sphilpott@kmlaw.ca
Telephone: 416-595-2104
Facsimile: 416-204-2882
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Susan Philpott heads the firm's pension and benefits practice
and is recognized as a leading practitioner in the area by Best Lawyers in
Canada. She has an extensive background representing trade unions, employees,
retirees and pension funds from both the public and private sectors in all
aspects of their labour relations and employee benefit needs. Her clients rely
on her skills as a problem-solver, and her ability to find solutions in a fast
and cost-effective way. Her advice is sought on trusteed and non-trusteed
pension and group insurance plans, pension surplus arrangements and other
benefit fund concerns, in addition to all kinds of workplace disputes.
At ease as a litigator, Susan appears in court and before a wide variety of
administrative tribunals including the Financial Services Commission and
Tribunal, the Ontario Labour Relations Board, and public and private
arbitration panels.
Susan is the Past President of the Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers, and
consulting editor of the Lancaster House Pension and Benefits E-Bulletin. She
speaks regularly at client and professional seminars, including the Ontario Bar
Association and the Law Society's Continuing Legal Education program. She has
been a guest lecturer on pension law at the University of Western Ontario and
labour law at Ryerson University, and has authored articles in numerous legal
and benefits-related journals.
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