Liz is well known for her work representing nurses and other professionals in a wide range of settings, including labour relations, professional discipline/regulation, human rights, professional liability, medical malpractice and the Courts. Liz has been counsel in numerous precedent-setting cases, including the well-known Orillia Soldiers case, the only Canadian appellate court decision on compensation-related disability discrimination and the duty to accommodate. Liz also argued K.M. on behalf of LEAF at the Supreme Court of Canada, a precedent setting case dealing with the application of limitation periods to victims of sexual assault. She more recently argued Mt. Sinai v. Tilley, a case in which the Ontario Court of Appeal quashed a provision of the Employment Standards Act disentitling disabled workers to severance pay based on a violation of s.15 of the Charter.

She has particular expertise in professional discipline and registration proceedings under the Regulated Health Professions Act and College of Teachers Act. With David Bloom, she is the author of An Educator's Guide to the Ontario College of Teachers, a practical guide on professional discipline for teachers. She has appeared frequently at inquests and inquiries, including the Grange Inquiry into deaths at the Hospital for Sick Children. She represented one of two nurses in R. v. Doerksen and Soriano in a high profile criminal case in which two nurses at The Hospital for Sick Children were charged with criminal negligence causing the death of a ten year old patient at the Hospital. More recently, she represented the Ontario Nurses’ Association and its members at an inquest into the murder of nurse Lori Dupont and the suicide of Dr. Marc Daniel at Hotel Dieu Grace Hospital, in Windsor.

Certified as a specialist in labour law, Liz acts for trade unions and professional organizations in a wide variety of legal proceedings before courts and administrative tribunals. She has been particularly successful in negotiating innovative alternative dispute resolution procedures in the field of human rights, labour law and professional discipline/regulation.

Liz is also a leading lawyer in the field of interest arbitration having participated in numerous disputes in the health sector. Liz is a frequent speaker and author of numerous articles particularly in the area of human rights, harassment, access to professions and trades, and labour law reform. She has co-authored the firm’s Guides to the Local Health System Integration Act, the Public Sector Labour Relations Transition Act and Challenging Disabilities-Based Discrimination.

Liz has been very active in the legal community as a Council Member of the Medical Legal Society of Toronto, Member of the Advisory Committee for the Women's Future Fund, Member of the Advocate’s Society, a Member of the University of Toronto Law School Planning Task Force, past Chair of the Law Society of Upper Canada Labour Law Specialty Committee, former Executive Member of the Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers and past Chair of the Labour Law Section of the Canadian Bar Association, Ontario. As well, she was a Member of the Burkett Committee and advised the Ontario Government on the 1993 amendments to labour law legislation.