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Stuart
Rush obtained
his law degree from the University of British Columbia
in 1970. He has practiced continuously in BC since 1971,
representing trade unions and tribal organizations in
labour and aboriginal litigation. He regularly appears
before the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court of BC,
the Canada Industrial Relations Board, the BC Labour
Relations Board and arbitration boards in BC and throughout
Canada. He was appointed Queen's Council in 1992.
Don
Crane received his law degree from the University
of British Columbia in 1976. Since 1977 he has been
a trial lawyer in both the criminal and civil courts.
He has represented clients in a wide variety of criminal
and civil cases, and regularly handles cases involving
personal injury, employment and labour law, human rights
law, defamation, and commercial litigation.
Stan
Guenther graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School
in 1977 and has practiced continuously in British Columbia
since 1978, appearing before administrative boards and
tribunals and at all levels of the trial and appeal
courts in a range of civil and criminal cases, including
labour arbitrations, judicial review proceedings, workers'
compensation appeals, and employment standards cases.
His practice is currently focused on representing unions
and individuals in workers' compensation cases, and
in representing unions in grievance arbitrations.
Carolyn
Askew obtained her law degree from the University
of British Columbia in 1968 and has practiced labour
and employment law since 1972. She worked as Legislative
Director for the British Columbia Federation of Labour,
as an organizer for the Telecommunications Workers Union
and as general counsel for the Health Sciences Association.
She has representated trade unions and their members
before a range of administrative tribunals and all levels
of courts in British Columbia. Carolyn also instructs
in the Administrative Justice programs of the British
Columbia Council of Adminstrative Tribunals. Carolyn
joined Rush Crane Guenther as associate counsel in 2000.
Heather
Neun graduated from UBC Law School in 1997,
and was called to the BC Bar in 1998. After articling
with a large Vancouver firm, and practicing with a litigation
firm in Vancouver for the following three years, she
joined Rush Crane Guenther as an associate in October
2001. Heather has worked primarily in labour arbitration
and civil litigation.
Janet
Patterson received her law degree from the
Univeristy of British Columbia in 1988. Se worked for
the British Columbia Government Employees Union until
her appointment, in 1995, to the Public Service Appeal
Board (1995-2001). She also worked as an independent
consultant with unions, arbitrators, tribunals and Capilano
College in the area of labour law, administrative law
and human rights. In 2001, Janet was appointed as an
Appeal Commissioner with the Workers Compensation Board
and then as a Vice-Chair at the Workers Compensation
Appeal Tribunal (2003-2005). In September 2005 she joined
Rush Crane Guenther and works primarily in the area
of workers compensation and labour law.
Bruce
Stadfeld, PhD., provides the firm with litigation
support for aboriginal and labour law cases. Bruce,
a Fulbright Scholar, is an historian specializing in
the Aboriginal and environmental history of Canada.
He has provided litigation support for several high-profile
Aboriginal rights cases. Bruce is currently completing
his LL.B at UBC and writing a scholarly monograph on
the environmental and social history of hydroelectricity
in British Columbia.
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