Practice Area:
Dispute Resolution and Advocacy
Dispute Resolution and Advocacy
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Carolyn McKeen
Dispute Resolution and Advocacy Lawyer
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Fax:
519.672.2044
PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
Representative Work
Carolyn has a wide range of litigation experience, with a special interest in human health.
She approaches each case uniquely, but with a consistent level of empathy, responsiveness, and collaboration. She is known for forging good relationships with opposing counsel and wherever possible, taking a cooperative approach to resolving disputes.
In her Health Law Practice, Carolyn assists health care professionals with regulatory matters concerning informed consent, privacy and data protection, professional standards, and fitness to practice. She also acts for members of regulated professional health Colleges in complex civil litigation claims alleging negligence and battery.
Carolyn also sustains a broad commercial litigation practice, providing advice to the post-secondary education sector in employment and human rights law, privacy, and litigation. She has extensive experience in general and commercial liability claims and the law of negligence.
Carolyn holds an LLM in Health Law, having completed graduate-level coursework focused on mental health law, medical assistance in dying, consent and capacity, biotechnology, and pandemic law.
Memberships
Law Society of Ontario
Ontario Bar Association
Middlesex Law Association
The Advocates’ Society
Education
LL.M – Health Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University (2023)
Admitted to Ontario Bar (2015)
Juris Doctor, University of Western Ontario, Faculty of Law (2011-2014)
Certificates in Community Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution
Master Of Public Health (Epidemiology), University of Guelph, Department of Population Medicine (2010)
BASc, Ryerson University, Faculty of Environmental Health and Science (2003-2007)
Professional History
Lerners LLP – Associate (2022-Present)
Fosters Law – Associate (2016-2022)
Black Sutherland LLP– Student-At-Law/Associate (2014-2015)
Anissimoff & Associates LLP – Student-In-Law (2012-2013)
Representative Work
Representative Work
Carolyn has a wide range of litigation experience, with a special interest in human health.
She approaches each case uniquely, but with a consistent level of empathy, responsiveness, and collaboration. She is known for forging good relationships with opposing counsel and wherever possible, taking a cooperative approach to resolving disputes.
In her Health Law Practice, Carolyn assists health care professionals with regulatory matters concerning informed consent, privacy and data protection, professional standards, and fitness to practice. She also acts for members of regulated professional health Colleges in complex civil litigation claims alleging negligence and battery.
Carolyn also sustains a broad commercial litigation practice, providing advice to the post-secondary education sector in employment and human rights law, privacy, and litigation. She has extensive experience in general and commercial liability claims and the law of negligence.
Carolyn holds an LLM in Health Law, having completed graduate-level coursework focused on mental health law, medical assistance in dying, consent and capacity, biotechnology, and pandemic law.
Representative Work
Carolyn has a wide range of litigation experience, with a special interest in human health.
She approaches each case uniquely, but with a consistent level of empathy, responsiveness, and collaboration. She is known for forging good relationships with opposing counsel and wherever possible, taking a cooperative approach to resolving disputes.
In her Health Law Practice, Carolyn assists health care professionals with regulatory matters concerning informed consent, privacy and data protection, professional standards, and fitness to practice. She also acts for members of regulated professional health Colleges in complex civil litigation claims alleging negligence and battery.
Carolyn also sustains a broad commercial litigation practice, providing advice to the post-secondary education sector in employment and human rights law, privacy, and litigation. She has extensive experience in general and commercial liability claims and the law of negligence.
Carolyn holds an LLM in Health Law, having completed graduate-level coursework focused on mental health law, medical assistance in dying, consent and capacity, biotechnology, and pandemic law.
Memberships
Memberships
Memberships
Education
Education
Education
Professional History
Professional History
Professional History
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