65 Grafton St.
Charlottetown, P.E.
C1A 1K8
Language(s) spoken: English
Bar Admission(s): Prince Edward Island, 1996
Legal Assistant(s): Daisha Richardson
Providing legal services through a professional corporation.
Murray practises labour, employment and human rights law, and is a Chartered Professional in Human Resources. He represents clients in education, transportation, construction, retail services, IT, government and media. Murray has extensive experience in court, at the Labour Relations Board, in employment standards proceedings, human rights complaints and grievance arbitrations. He is a labour relations arbitrator, appointed by the PEI Minister of Labour, and has presided over several labour arbitrations. Murray is a member of Stewart McKelvey’s Partnership Board, and is chair of the Firm’s Human Resources and Governance Committee. Some examples or Murray’s work include:
- Represents many of PEI’s largest employers and leading businesses.
- Represents post-secondary institutions in governance, policy and human resources issues, including collective bargaining, grievances, human rights complaints, accommodation, academic and discipline matters.
- Acted as counsel to one of PEI’s largest private sector employers in one of the longest and most complicated proceedings to come before the PEI Labour Relations Board, including multiple certification applications, unfair labour practice complaints, successor rights and common employer applications.
- Represents PEI’s largest consortium of Nursing Homes and Community Care facilities providing strategic advice, and representation on human resource matters including hiring, grievances, dismissals and human rights complaints.
- Represented a large institutional employer in the defence of a human rights complaint that raised issues of national importance.
- Helps clients prepare and implement workplace policies including harassment and discrimination policies, alcohol and drug policies, and discipline policies.
- Represents clients in collective bargaining, including acting as lead negotiator.
- Assists clients in handling and responding to workplace investigations.
- Helps clients prepare employment documentation including employment contracts, confidentiality agreements and non-competition and non-solicitation agreements.
Education & Career
Education
University of New Brunswick, LL.B., 1995
University of New Brunswick, B.A. (honours), 1992
Certified Canadian Human Resources Professional
Activities
Managing partner, Charlottetown, 2021 – present
Partnership Board, Stewart McKelvey
Prince Edward Island Rules of Court Committee
Board member, Chartered Professionals in Human Resources, Prince Edward Island (CPHR PEI)
Practice group leader, Labour & Employment, Stewart McKelvey, 2013 – 2014
President, Law Society of Prince Edward Island, 2011 – 2012
Chair, National Administrative Law Section, Canadian Bar Association, 2011 – 2012
Course leader, Administrative Law, Law Society of Prince Edward Island Bar Admission Course, 2009 – 2014
Judicial Appointments Advisory Committee to the Federal Minister of Justice, 2006 – 2009
Canadian Association of University Solicitors
Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers
Mayor’s Task Force on Arts and Culture for the City of Charlottetown, 2012
Fundraising Committee, East Coast Music Awards 2011
Political commentator, CBC Prince Edward Island Television and Radio
Accolades
Best Lawyers 2021 Labour and Employment Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Charlottetown
Queen’s Counsel, 2013
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for community service, 2012
Best Lawyers, Labour and Employment Law, 2017 – 2022
Lexpert rating: Employment Law, 2010 – 2021
Lexpert rating: Labour Relations, 2011 – 2021
Thought Leadership
Publications
Author, Another Last Goodbye: The Life and (Near) Death of Mandatory Retirement in Canada, Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers Annual Conference, Montreal, QC, September 2014
Presentations
CAUT Investigations, November 2018
Recruitment and Hiring, October 2018
Cannabis in the Workplace (with Joel M. Dubois), Presentation to the Federal Court of Appeal for the National Judicial Institute
October 18, 2018