Matt Lalande can help you with personal injury litigation, employment law and wills and estates.
PERSONAL INJURY LITIGATION
Matt is a passionate advocate for injured victims that have suffered serious orthopedic fractures and brain injuries.
Matt only represent the rights of accident victims. He never represented insurance companies. Matt places emphasis on serious (catastrophic) car and motorcycle accidents, acquired brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, serious fracture cases, victims with rotator cuff injuries, wrongful death cases, deadly impaired driving accidents, serious slip/trip and falls, (occupier and municipal liability cases) serious dog attacks and dog maulings, assault cases, sexual assault cases, burning and scarring cases and other personal injuries.
Matt has also represented clients in many levels of court including Small Claims, the Superior Court, the Divisional Court, the Ontario Court of Appeal, and tribunals such as the Canadian Pension Plan Tribunal, the Pension Review Tribunal, Financial Services Commission mediations, and the Criminal Injury Compensation Board Tribunal (CICB).
Matt is also a long standing member of OTLA and he enjoys academic work. He has also lectured for OTLA and regularly contributes numerous articles to the Litigator Magazine, the Lawyers Weekly, the Burlington Post and various newspaper publications around southern Ontario. Matt has also authored for websites with respect to insured persons rights, spinal cord injuries and aquired brain injuries. He has also been a guest speaker in colleges and universities.
EMPLOYMENT LAW LITIGATION
Matt represents both employers and employees in all aspects of non-union employment law. Matt assists employers with workplace issues such as HR Training, hiring, termination, independent contractor issues, employment contract issues, policy manuals and procedures in the workplace, workplace investigations, performance evaluations, discipline of employees, promotion of employees, overtime pay, privacy in the workplace, resignations, retirement issues, sales of business issues, wrongful dismissal issues, reasonable notice, bad faith issues, tort liability (such as defamation, mental suffering, negligent misrepresentation, contractual relation interference, conspiracy, psychological harassment), injunctive remedies, Employment standards act issues, overtime pay issues, non-competes, maternity issues, commission and bonus disputes, sexual harassment, independent contractor issues, and complex employment litigation.
Matt can also assist with Labour Board Disputes and Ontario Human Rights Tribunal defence.
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Matt equally represents employees. If you have been terminated with a severance package that you are unhappy with; you have been fired without a termination package; you have been terminated for cause and you don’t agree with it; you have been treated unfairly; you think you will be terminated; your employer changed your employment agreement (i.e. your pay, location, report, sales territory, benefits, work hours); your employer is not meeting the minimum requirements under the legislation (such as termination, minimum wage, maternity leave issues, statutory holidays, not paying overtime pay, not paying vacation pay, you are being overworked without proper breaks or time between shifts); you are subject to discrimination or any sort, or you are experiencing harassment at work
(such as age, race, colour, ancestry, place of origin, criminal convictions, disability, sex, sexual harassment, sexual orientation, marital or family status, political beliefs or religion) you may may want to speak to Matt These are only a few of many things that can go wrong in the employment relationship that he can help with.
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MATT R. LALANDE
HABER & ASSOCIATES BURLINGTON
3370 South Service Road (2nd Floor)
Burlington, On
L7N 3N6
P: (905) 639-8894
F: (905) 639-0459
E: matt.lalande@haber-lawyer.com