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where she also has a special interest and ex-
pertise in human rights matters. She works
with police associations across Ontario and
acts for police associations in tough cases
involving police-sector labour relations.
She represents unions and their members
in human rights litigation. Jones advises
her police association clients on govern-
ment legislation affecting their rights, and
also carries on a union-side labour practice
representing unions and their members at
grievance arbitrations, Labour Boards and
the courts. She Co-chairs the annual Police
Association of Ontario Emerging Issues
and Legal Developments conference.
Terra L. Klinck
Brown Mills Klinck Prezioso LLP
Pensions & Employee Benefits
Terra Klinck focuses on being an employer-
side pension and benefits lawyer. In 2017,
Klinck, along with three colleagues, es-
tablished BMKP, the first pension and
benefits boutique law firm in Canada.
A highly sought-aer expert, she advises
some of Canada's largest private-sector
employers on complex and novel pension
plan restructuring. She is an instructor of
the Pension Law Certificate Program with
Osgoode Professional Development, and is
regularly sought out as a speaker, allowing
her to share her knowledge and expertise
with other professionals.
Paul Litner
Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP
Pensions & Employee Benefits
Paul Litner is Chair of his firm's Pensions &
Benefits Department. His practice relates
exclusively to pensions, benefits and com-
pensation plans, and he deals extensively
with pension and benefits issues arising in
mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations.
He has assisted several clients in implement-
ing pension plan mergers, conversions and
other innovative plan consolidation strate-
gies. Litner has been engaged with the Asso-
ciation of Canadian Pension Management
over the past decade, and he was an active
member of its National Policy Commit-
tee and served a two-year term as Chair. In
2013, the ACPM honoured Litner with the
Association of Canadian Pension Manage-
ment Award for Exceptional Volunteerism.
He has authored numerous articles for re-
tirement industry publications.
Lisa J. Mills
Brown Mills Klinck Prezioso LLP
Pensions & Employee Benefits
Lisa Mills is an employer-side pension and
benefits lawyer, responsible for BMKP's fi-
nance portfolio. Mills served as a member,
and later Chair, of the Canadian Pension
and Benefits Institute's Ottawa Chapter.
She developed and subsequently taught
the pension law course for Queen's Uni-
versity Faculty of Law. Mills co-authored
the Public Pensions title of the Canadian
Encyclopedic Digest from 2012 -2015. She
also became involved with the special edu-
cation advisory committee of the Ottawa-
Carleton District School Board, represent-
ing the interests of special needs students
on the Board's Advisory Committee for
Extended Day and Child Care Programs.
Michael S. Richards
DLA Piper (Canada) LLP
Employment Law
In addition to maintaining his employ-
ment and labour practice, as Managing
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