Beyond the Investigation: How Mediation Can Address Problematic Workplace Dynamics

Warren Mouck is a workplace lawyer who helps employers and employees navigate legal challenges with confidence, candour, and discretion. From hiring and contracts to dismissals and disputes, Warren offers practical, strategic advice and represents clients at all levels of court in Ontario.

Before founding his own firm, Warren spent more than a decade at respected Ontario law firms, advising businesses on all areas of workplace law, including employment standards, occupational health and safety, human rights, wrongful dismissals, and labour relations.
A skilled litigator, Warren regularly appears before the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal, the Labour Relations Board, the Superior Court of Justice, and in grievance arbitrations.

Warren is based in Hamilton, Ontario and provides legal services throughout the province of Ontario. Prior to moving to Hamilton, he taught Civil Practice and Procedure at the Bora Laskin Faculty of Law in Thunder Bay, where he graduated as valedictorian of the charter class. Recognized for his expertise, Warren is regularly invited to speak on labour and employment law by the Law Society of Ontario, Human Resources Professionals Association, and the Hamilton Law Association.

Michelle draws on more than 15 years’ experience as a workplace and regulatory investigator to conduct thorough, empathetic, trauma-informed investigations. She maintains an unbiased and open-minded perspective and values improving the quality and dynamics of the workplace by addressing issues in a crisis and by helping clients restore a healthy working environment. Michelle is also an experienced workplace mediator, providing both evaluative and interest-based alternative dispute resolution services, and conducts workplace assessments.

Michelle began her career at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal where she articled in the Tribunal Counsel Office. She then spent as eight years an investigator and legal counsel at the Office of the Ontario Ombudsman, where she undertook high-profile regulatory investigations. Michelle then practised at a well-known Toronto-based firm where she conducted workplace investigations into sexual harassment, discrimination, bullying, and other policy violations. Michelle completed a certificate in Dispute Resolution and Alternative Dispute Resolution, and most recently completed an MA in Counselling Psychology.

Her combined experience in investigations and counselling allows her to provide clients with empathetic, impartial, trauma-informed investigations that respect the dignity and psychological safety of all parties and witnesses.