Andrew Harold Monkhouse

• Active Member of the Law Society of Ontario • Active Member of the Law Society of British Columbia

Managing Partner, Legal Author, Law Professor, Business Owner and Community Volunteer. Andrew has many roles. In his role as a litigator he took the most employment law cases to trial or summary judgment of any lawyer in Ontario and also the most employment law appeals (including Divisional Court, Ontario Court of Appeal and Supreme Court levels) between 2013 and 2025 therefore having exceptional in-court experience.

Andrew is a pioneer in Class Actions work having started the first contractor/employee class action in Ontario and the first vacation-holiday underpayment class actions.

Andrew has worked tirelessly for clients in civil litigation, specializing in employment, human rights, and disability insurance law. Andrew has an academic appointment to teach courses at Osgoode Hall Law School as an adjunct (part time) professor where he teaches law students.

Andrew is extremely active in his involvement in legal organizations devoted to training, networking, and improving legal skills among employment lawyers. Andrew is the founding President of the ELAO – Employment Lawyers Association of Ontario (ELAO) – which represents and organizes events for employment lawyers in Ontario. He is also the current Past Chair of the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) and Canadian Bar Association (CBA) Labour and Employment Sections. Andrew has spoken at countless educational seminars providing his legal knowledge to other lawyers on a variety of topics.

As the managing partner of Monkhouse Law, Andrew has grown the firm, which ranked as the top growing law firm in Canada in 2019 according to the Globe and Mail , in all of North America by the Financial Times again in 2020 , and in Ontario in 2020 again by the Globe and Mail . Monkhouse Law has been selected as a finalist for “Labour & Employment Law Boutique of the Year” by the Canadian HR awards three times ( 2018, 2019, 2020 ) and was the silver winner of the “University of Waterloo Award for Next Generation Employment Innovation” award in 2020. Among many other awards, Monkhouse Law was chosen as the “readers’ choice” award by the Toronto Star in 2019.