LeRoy M. Lenethen, Q.C.,
Retired
| Phone | (902) 678-6156 |  |
|---|---|---|
| Fax | Fax: (902) 678-6010 | |
| lenethen@tmclaw.com | ||
| Legal Assistant | Robin Morton Ext. #270 |
LeRoy is a former Partner, Managing Partner, and Of Counsel of Taylor MacLellan Cochrane. He retired from the firm on January 2, 2014. If you are a client and require assistance please contact Robin Morton who will direct you to the appropriate lawyer.
Preferred Areas of Practice
- General Litigation
- Education and University Law
- Employment & Labour
- Expropriation and Professional Negligence
Qualifications
- Queen's Counsel, 1988
- Bar Admission: Nova Scotia, 1972
- LL.B. (Dalhousie University) 1971
- B.A. (Acadia University) 1968
Professional Experience
LeRoy's practice involves mainly litigation matters including advice to clients regarding a broad range of disputes. His work covers a wide variety of legal issues with an emphasis on matters that arise in education and university law, employment and labour law, professional negligence and general litigation. He has represented clients at all levels of court in the Province of Nova Scotia and has appeared before various arbitration boards and other administrative boards and tribunals including: Grievance Arbitration Boards, Labour Relations Board, Human Rights' Boards of Inquiry, and Education Act Boards of Appeal.
LeRoy has had extensive experience in prosecuting, on a retainer basis, a wide range of local, provincial and federal criminal and regulatory offences since 1973 but during the last 25 years of his practice has concentrated on general litigation on a wide variety for institutions, corporate and individual clients.
Since 1975 he has been the senior solicitor for Acadia University and since 1991 has been the senior solicitor involved in a broad range of litigation and employment and labour issues for the local Kings County District School Board and subsequently the Annapolis Valley Regional School Board.
He represented many local businesses and farmers throughout the Counties of Hants, Kings, Annapolis and Digby as the No. 101 series highway wound its way from Halifax through to Yarmouth during the 1970's and 1980's. He has advised provincial and municipal expropriating authorities regarding the expropriation process and assisted in evaluating costs associated with that process. He continues to represent clients in compensation claims whose lands are required for public purposes.
For a number of years, he has been one of the lawyers engaged by the Nova Scotia Barristers' Liability Claims Fund to assess claims of professional negligence against lawyers and has successfully resolved and successfully defended a number of these claims.
He continues to represent clients engaged in a broad range of civil disputes regarding individuals, corporations and institutions.
Professional Activities & Affiliations
Member of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society since 1972, Canadian Bar Association since 1971, Canadian Bar Association's Civil Litigation and Labour Law Subsections and National Subsections, Canadian Association for the Practical Study of Law in Education (CAPSLE), and Kings County Barristers' Society (KCBS). Former Member of the Bar Council of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, Discipline Committee and the Ethics Committee of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society, Nova Scotia Branch Executive of the Canadian Bar Association, and past President of the Nova Scotia Branch of the Canadian Bar Association. Founding Member of Canadian Association of University Solicitors (CAUS) in 1979 and a past President of that organization and the recent (2003) recipient of that organization's John Hackett Memorial Award, and a former President and Courthouse Committee Chair of the KCBS.
Activities within the Firm
Former Partner and Managing Partner of the firm, organized a number of firm retreats, Senior Member of General Litigation Group, Senior Member of Labour and Employment Law Group, and Member of Education Law Group.
Legal Services
Kentville Office / Mailing Address:
50 Bridge Street
Kentville, NS
Canada
B4N 2E4
Kingston Office:
643 Main Street
Kingston, NS
Canada
t: 902.678.6156 Kentville
t: 902.242.6156 Kingston
f: 902.678.6010
Toll Free: 1-888-4-TMC-LAW