Description
Having graduated with honours in civil and common law from McGill University, picking up the Gerald S. Tritt Prize (for the best special contracts results) along the way in 2004, Catherine Galardo began her practical training as a student at the Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law and as a student clerk at the Superior Court under the Honourable Louis Crête before beginning her career at Langlois Kronström Desjardins.

Catherine decided to devote herself primarily to labour & education law. She is also a member of the firm’s health law group.

Catherine represents a number of unionized & non-unionized businesses and public sector organizations in her labour law practice. At the moment, the bulk of her practice is with school boards across Quebec.

Associations & Achievements
Since 2009 - Member of the Ordre des conseillers en ressources humaines agréés.

Presentations & Conferences
2010 - Presentation of « La cybersurveillance : quelles sont les balises du droit de l'employeur? », at the 13th Edition of the World Federation of People Management Association, September 28, 2010, Montréal.

2010 - Professional training conference presentation entitled "How to manage termination of the employment relationship" delivered to the Quebec order of professional human resources counsellors.

Since 2008 - Delivered a presentation entitled "Disciplinary Management: Loyalty, Competence, and Attendance", as part of a training session organized by the Ordre des CRHA du Québec.

2007 - Worked on a presentation entitled "Amendments to the Education Act", to the Fédération des Commissions scolaires du Québec (Quebec School Boards Federation) by Yann Bernard and Bernard Jacob.

2005 - Worked on a presentation entitled "How to Draft an Attendance Policy That Stands Up to Scrutiny by Arbitrators and Tribunals".

2005 - Worked on a presentation entitled "A Review of Psychological Harassment Jurisprudence in Quebec".

2004 - Worked on a presentation entitled "The Pay Equity Act".

Publications
2010 -  Wrote "L'utilisation d'internet en milieu de travail" in collaboration with Me Martine Bergeron, VigieRT, numero 47, April 2010

2007 - Contributed to the article Les antécédents judiciaires des employés du milieu scolaire (Criminal Records of Employees in the Education Sector) in Développements récents en droit du travail en éducation, Éditions Yvon Blais, pp. 161–211

2005 - Wrote a legal bulletin entitled Le régime québécois de l'assurance parentale entre en vigueur le 1er janvier 2006 (The Québec Parental Insurance Plan Comes Into Effect on January 1, 2006)

2003 - Helped research and write Dictionnaire de droit privé et lexiques bilingues sur les Obligations (A Dictionary of Private Law and Bilingual Glossaries on Obligations) in conjunction with the Quebec Research Centre of Private and Comparative Law, 3rd edition, Éditions Yvon Blais

Representative mandate
Employment Law - Senior Executive
Successfully defended a major financial institution against a claim for constructive dismissal that called into question the institution's respect for the applicable legal rules and the soundness of its corporate governance (currently under appeal).