Exceptional Service, Exceptional Results
Providing Ontario employers and employees with seasoned litigation advocacy, strategic employment counsel, and impartial workplace investigations.
Exceptional Service
Exceptional ResultsNancy Shapiro opened the doors of The Employment Law Boutique in 2025 after spending over 25 years in the commercial litigation group at Koskie Minsky LLP, practising employment law. Focused, responsive advocacy for employers and employees alike.
Which side of the table are you on?
Strategic, practical, and results-oriented legal solutions tailored to employees, employers, and organizations.
Services for Employees
Ensuring that you receive the support and strategic guidance necessary to navigate severance packages, dismissals, and executive compensation contracts.
- Employment contracts & executive compensation
- Non-solicitation & non-compete agreements
- Severance package analysis
- Wrongful & constructive dismissal
- Human rights, discrimination & harassment
- Litigation & tribunal representation
Services for Employers
Supporting businesses, HR departments, and management with HR statutory compliance, agreement drafting, and proactive risk reduction.
- Risk management & statutory compliance
- Contract & policy drafting
- Corporate transactions & M&A support
- Partnership, shareholder & management disputes
- Directors & officers (D&O) liability
- Litigation & tribunal representation
Investigation Services
Thorough, impartial, trauma-informed examinations of complex workplace issues, including harassment, toxicity, and human rights allegations.
- Independent third-party investigations
- Investigation policies & protocols
- Advising internal HR-led investigations
- Pre-investigation resolution & mediation
- Complaint & response drafting
- Interview attendance for complainants & respondents
Nancy Shapiro
“Nancy is a zealous advocate and dedicated to minimizing risk to her clients.”
Nancy works with privately-held small to mid-sized businesses across Canada as well as executives, managers and other non-unionized employees experiencing workplace issues — before all levels of the courts, employment-related tribunals and boards, and in mediation and arbitration.
- Osgoode HallLaw School graduate, 1996
- 1998Called to the bar
- 25+ yearsKoskie Minsky LLP commercial litigation group
- Top 500Lexpert lawyers for business in Canada, 2026
The record speaks
Nancy Shapiro has been consistently recognized by peer-review directories, national legal publications, and industry organizations.
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Lexpert / American Lawyer Top 500Employment Law
2020, 2021, 2024–present - 02
Canadian Legal Lexpert DirectoryEmployment Law
2017–present - 03
Best Lawyers in CanadaLabour and Employment
2022–present - 04
“2023 Lawyer of the Year”Labour and Employment, Best Lawyers in Canada
2022–2023 - 05
Chambers CanadaEmployment and Labour, non-unionized employees
2020–present - 06
Canadian HR Reporter’s 5-Star Employment LawyersCanadian HR Reporter
2022–present - 07
Post City Magazine’s Top Lawyers in the GTAPost City Magazine
2021–present
A boutique, by design
Senior attention on every file — and a team that knows your matter by name.
Three steps to clarity
Whether you are facing termination, reviewing a contract, dealing with a workplace dispute, or need an investigation handled properly, the first step is a confidential conversation.
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Notes from the bench & boardroom
Thought leadership, legal commentary, and court updates on Ontario employment law.
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