Directing Partners
Conan Taylor
MANAGING PARTNER
Conan Taylor is a partner of Taylor Janis LLP. He practices exclusively in the areas of workplace law, including labour, employment, and commercial litigation matters. In his over 15 years of practice, Mr. Taylor has represented both individuals and corporations respecting their workplace law matters. At present, he represents several small to medium-sized businesses, including specialty pharmacy, commercial development, and energy companies.
Eric Lam
MANAGING PARTNER
Eric C. Lam is a lawyer in the firm’s Edmonton office. He provides clear legal advice and professional representation to clients involved in wrongful dismissals, review of severance packages, workplace bullying, discrimination, and sexual harassment, as well as other Employment Law matters.
Jon Dowhaluk
MANAGING PARTNER
Jon is a lawyer in the firms Calgary’s Office. He passionately provides legal advice and represents clients in all workplace matters including disputes and conflicts during employment, terminations, human rights, employment standards, labor relations, workers compensation, illness and disability, bullying and harassment, restrictive covenants, workplace investigations, professional regulatory matters, and judicial reviews of administrative decisions.
Family Lawyers
Sarah Levine
EMPLOYMENT and LABOUR LAWYER
Sarah Levine is a lawyer in the firm’s Edmonton office but acts for clients throughout Alberta and British Columbia. She practices primarily in the area of workplace law, including wrongful dismissal, workplace harassment, severance review, human rights and discrimination issues, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements, and various other employment matters.
Whitney Manfro
EMPLOYMENT and LABOUR LAWYER
Whitney provides strategic counsel to employer and employee clients exclusively in the areas of employment law, human resources law, and human rights law. Over the course of her career, she has served national corporations, start-ups, senior executives, and individual employees across a broad range of industries.
Colin Flynn
EMPLOYMENT and LABOUR LAWYER
Colin is an Associate practicing in the areas of Labour & Employment, Civil Litigation, Estate Litigation, Corporate & Commercial Litigation, and Personal Injury. He places high emphasis on developing trusted relationships with his clients, ensuring they feel comfortable and at ease sharing the subtleties of their circumstances. Whether a matter is simple or complex, Colin’s focus is to quickly and efficiently resolve issues in a way that promotes his client’s best interests.
Chelsea Scott
EMPLOYMENT and LABOUR LAWYER
Chelsea focuses on representing clients and providing legal advice related to workplace and employment issues. Some of the areas of law that Chelsea focuses on include, but are not limited to, wrongful dismissal, severance package review, discrimination, disputes during employment, and workers compensation.
Heather Tyminski
EMPLOYMENT and LABOUR LAWYER
Heather is an associate practicing in the area of employment law. She takes a client-centered approach to enable her clients to make informed decisions. She has advised employers and employees on all aspects of the employment relationship, from the initial hiring stages up to termination.
Wilson McCutchan
EMPLOYMENT and LABOUR LAWYER
Wilson McCutchan is an associate in Taylor Janis’ Calgary office. He graduated from law school at Queen’s University in 2009 and was called to the bar in Alberta in 2010. Since then he has practiced as a civil litigator in Calgary. He advises and represents clients on a wide range of employment law matters.
Evan Harvey
EMPLOYMENT and LABOUR LAWYER
Evan Harvey is a lawyer practicing labour and employment law in the Vancouver office. He prides himself in a compassionate and focused approach to developing and maintaining trusting client relationships and advocating his clients’ interests in a meticulous, concise, and straight-forward manner.
Andrew Fraser
EMPLOYMENT and LABOUR LAWYER
He practices primarily in the areas of workplace law and commercial litigation. Andrew represents and advises employees and employers in a variety of workplace matters including wrongful dismissals, constructive dismissals, human rights issues, and non-competition agreements.
Heather Gagnier
EMPLOYMENT and LABOUR LAWYER
Heather is a lawyer in the firm’s Edmonton office. Her practice primarily focuses on workplace matters, including wrongful dismissals, severance review, workplace harassment, human rights issues and discrimination, non-competition and non-solicitation agreements.
Brandon Tralenberg
EMPLOYMENT and LABOUR LAWYER
Brandon has dedicated himself to being a zealous advocate that recognizes that people sometimes make poor decisions and mistakes that can greatly impact their lives. Brandon has focused on employment law because he understands the disadvantage individuals face when dealing with employers, and he takes great pride in protecting peoples rights and legal entitlements.
Linda Lim
EMPLOYMENT and LABOUR LAWYER
Linda provides legal advice and representation to both employees and employers in a variety of workplace matters, including wrongful dismissal, severance review, workplace discrimination, and representation of unionized employees. Prior to joining Taylor Janis LLP, Linda worked at a non-profit legal clinic, representing marginalized clients in civil litigation matters.
Kim Holland
EMPLOYMENT and LABOUR LAWYER
Kimberley is an associate lawyer focusing on employment law and Human Rights Law in Alberta
and British Columbia. In her practice, she advises employees on termination packages, wrongful
dismissal, constructive dismissal, just cause termination, sexual harassment, workplace
discrimination, illness and disability, provincial and federal human rights matters, and contract
reviews and negotiations.
Dustin Patzer
EMPLOYMENT and LABOUR LAWYER
Dustin was born and raised in Lethbridge, Alberta. During his high school years, football was his passion. The highlight of his high school years was winning a National Championship as a member of Team Alberta and being named Defensive MVP of the tournament. Dustin then played four years of football for the Okanagan Sun in British Columbia earning two Conference All-star awards.
Susan Gill
EMPLOYMENT and LABOUR LAW STUDENT
Susan is a Student-at-Law in the firm. Susan graduated from the faculty of law at Thompson Rivers University, where she served as president of the South Asian Legal Students Association and participated in the Thompson Rivers University Community Legal Clinic.
Administration
Alysia Dassouki
PARALEGAL, LEGAL ASSISTANT
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Amber Gamelin
PARALEGAL, LEGAL ASSISTANT
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Shaye Alexander
PARALEGAL, LEGAL ASSISTANT
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Amanda Vanin
PARALEGAL, LEGAL ASSISTANT
Amanda has extensive experience in drafting legal documents and file management and enjoys working closely with lawyers and clients. She finds it important to communicate with clients and at times provide a sympathetic ear when they may be worried or scared.
Chelsea Dustin
PARALEGAL / FINANCE ADMINISTRATION
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Jessie Ross
PARALEGAL, LEGAL ASSISTANT
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Harjot Buttar
PARALEGAL, ADMINISTRATION
Harjot Buttar is an experienced intake facilitator who first joined our Vancouver office in 2021, having spearheaded our intake process since then. Passionately caring about clients’ interests and always prepared to engage in conversations of any topic, whether light or difficult, she is highly regarded and well-loved by clients and our team members alike.
Jenny Zheng
PARALEGAL, LEGAL ASSISTANT
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Laura George
PARALEGAL, LEGAL ASSISTANT
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