ERTL LAWYERS - Key Persons

Andrea Allin

Job Titles:
  • EMPLOYMENT & DISABILITY PARALEGAL
  • Member of the Durham Region
  • Paralegal
  • Paralegal / Office Manager
Andrea is a licensed paralegal and has focused on employment and disability matters for the better part of a decade. Andrea graduated from the University of Guelph-Humber with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Family and Community Social Services and a diploma in Social Services, and then received her Graduate Certificate in Paralegal Studies at Durham College. Andrea is a proud member of the Durham Region, where she lives.

David Ertl

Job Titles:
  • EMPLOYMENT & DISABILITY LAWYER
  • Hamilton Employment Lawyer and Owner
  • Investigator
  • Kingston Employment Lawyer and Owner
  • London Employment Lawyer, and Owner
  • Mississauga Employment Lawyer and Owner
  • Oshawa Employment Lawyer, and Owner
  • Ottawa Employment Lawyer, and Owner
  • Watch Employment Lawyer
  • Windsor Employment Lawyer, and Owner
David has 20 years of proven results in employment law and disability insurance law, in both Ontario and British Columbia. David passionately represents clients who have been wrongfully dismissed and / or have been denied long-term disability benefits. Over the years, he has recovered millions in improperly withheld severance pay and disability benefits for his clients. He also a trusted advisor to employers in all areas of employment law, including policy drafting, employee relations, workplace health and safety, privacy, discipline and termination, employment standards, and human rights. David is a certified workplace investigator, and regularly conducts investigations, with a focus on sexual harassment in the workplace. He has appeared before the courts of Ontario and British Columbia, the Tax Court of Canada, Human Rights Tribunal (Ontario and B.C.), the Ontario Labour Relations Board, and numerous other tribunals and professional college disciplinary bodies. As an adjunct professor, David has taught employment law, tribunal practice and procedure, and trial advocacy. He has also written extensively about employment and administrative law matters for Canada's leading encyclopedic law digest. David received his law degree from the University of Western Ontario. David practised with a national law firm in both its Vancouver and Toronto offices where, in addition to employment law, he practised in areas of injury and disability, professional regulation and discipline, as well as criminal and quasi-criminal defence.