Carly Meredith is an employment and privacy law counsel for national and international organizations and joint lead of the Quebec data privacy group.
Carly assists provincially and federally regulated employers with hiring, individual and collective terminations, performance and discipline management, the drafting and implementation of employment contracts and policies, workplace investigations, workplace health and safety, harassment and discrimination complaints, and compliance with applicable French language legislation. Carly also defends employers in employment litigation matters.
On the privacy front, Carly routinely advises clients on the application of Quebec data privacy legislation, which includes conducting data privacy audits, data transfer impact assessments and the review and development of data processing agreements and privacy policies.
Carly has extensive experience advising clients on coordinating and responding to data breaches and associated reporting requirements, as well as managing follow-up correspondence with Quebec’s privacy regulator. As litigation related to privacy breaches begins to become more frequent following recent amendments to Quebec’s privacy legislation, Carly has been called upon on several occasions to counsel on the privacy-related aspects of associated class actions.
A significant part of Carly’s practice also consists of advising clients on critical due diligence, integration and transitional matters related to employment and privacy in the context of complex M&A transactions.
Carly frequently publishes updates and news bulletins with respect to the rapidly evolving Quebec data privacy and employment landscapes and regularly presents and provides training on these topics.
Carly holds both a civil law and a common law degree from McGill University and has been with the firm since the inception of her career in 2016. Carly is currently serving as the Vice-President of a Montreal-based halfway house, where she has sat on the board of directors for the past 15 years and is an active member of the Irish community in Montreal.
