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Carly Meredith

Carly Meredith

Associate
About

Carly Meredith is an employment and privacy law counsel for national and international organizations. ‎

She provides strategic advice to C-level executives and human resources professionals on ‎management-‎side employment and privacy issues. ‎

Carly has significant experience advising clients on critical integration and ‎transitional matters at the pre ‎and post-acquisition stages of complex M&A transactions, especially in the life sciences and technology ‎sectors.‎

Routinely, she assists provincially and federally regulated employers with hiring, ‎individual and collective ‎terminations, performance and discipline management, the drafting and ‎implementation of employment ‎contracts and policies, workplace investigations, workplace health and safety, harassment and ‎‎discrimination complaints. Carly also defends employers in employment ‎litigation matters.‎

On the privacy front, Carly works with clients to ensure compliance with Quebec’s private sector ‎‎privacy law. This ‎includes conducting privacy audits and data transfer impact assessments, the review and ‎development ‎of data processing agreements and privacy policies, as well as assisting clients with data ‎breaches and the reporting of confidentiality incidents. ‎

Carly provides clients with innovative and pragmatic solutions to legal and business ‎issues. She is ‎currently pursuing advanced studies in employment and labour law at the University of ‎Montreal. Carly ‎joined the firm in 2016 after obtaining her civil and common law degrees from McGill ‎University. ‎

Carly is a Member of the United Irish Societies of Montreal and is also the vice-president of a Montreal-based ‎‎halfway house where she has sat on the Board of Directors for over a decade. ‎

 
Bar admissionsQuébec, 2017
Languages
  • French
  • English
Education
  • B.C.L./ LL.B., McGill University, 2016
  • B.A. (International Studies and Modern Languages) University of Ottawa, 2013
  • Labour and Employment microprogram, University of Montréal (in progress)

Seminars

  • Jurisdiction Jigsaw: Decoding the Puzzle of Extraterritorial Application of Employment Standards, November 30, 2023
  • 2023 Data Protection, Privacy and Cybersecurity Symposium, May 18, 2023

Community Involvement

  • Member of the United Irish Societies of Montreal
  • Member of the board of directors of Maison Cross Roads

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Quebec Bar, 2017
  • Young Bar of Montreal

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