Rosalind Cooper is one of the leading and most widely-recognized environmental lawyers in Canada. Rosalind’s expertise is recognized in Chambers Global, Chambers Canada, Lexpert/American Lawyer Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada, Best Lawyers in Canada, and Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory. She has twice received the designation “Best Environmental Lawyer of the Year”. Rosalind is also a recognized environmental mediator and arbitrator and certified by the Law Society as an expert in environmental law. 

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She defends environmental charges, and litigates contaminated land and other environmental disputes before all levels of court. She is also involved in appeals and environmental assessment proceedings before the Environmental Review Tribunal and provides regulatory advice in all areas of environmental law. Rosalind advises on a variety of transactions including mergers and acquisitions, the purchase and sale of real estate, secured lending transactions, and leasing arrangements. Rosalind also provides advice to clients with respect to occupational health and safety matters, defends charges and deals with work refusals and appeals of orders issued by the Ministry of Labour and ESDC, as well as reprisal complaints.