Christine M. Thomlinson

Christine Thomlinson is the co-founder of Rubin Thomlinson LLP and the Managing Director of RT Workplace Training Inc. With almost 30 years of experience, she understands and is sensitive to the challenges that businesses face. Recognizing that sometimes the law does not fit with a client’s business reality, Christine has a gift for exploring creative solutions, enabling her to help her clients to look at issues objectively and explain things in a way that people understand.

Christine is renowned for her knowledge, strategic and innovative thinking, and ability to provide solutions to challenging workplace issues. With these traits, she has become a trusted advisor to senior human resource professionals, providing counsel on pursuing employee relationships that support her clients’ business objectives. Christine and her colleagues work across the country, and have conducted various high profile investigations and reviews in workplaces such as the CBC, the Canadian Olympic Committee, and the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador.

Christine and Rubin Thomlinson are considered leading authorities in the areas of workplace harassment, workplace investigation, and workplace reviews. Their expertise is reflected in the best-selling text, Human Resources Guide to Workplace Investigations, written by Christine and her partner, Janice Rubin, as well as in the extensive training curriculum they have developed to enable employers to conduct effective workplace investigations themselves under increasing regulatory scrutiny.

In addition to the HR Guide, Christine co-authored the best-selling employment law guide with the late Mr. Justice Randall Scott Echlin, For Better or For Worse: A Practical Guide to Canadian Employment Law. Now in its 3rd edition, the book remains a prime resource for human resource professionals and students across Canada.

Moreover, Christine can regularly be found listed in the Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, Best Lawyers in CanadaTM, Leading Practitioners lists in Canada, and Lexpert’s Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada. She was also awarded the Lexpert Zenith award for her contribution to diversity and inclusion in the legal profession. As a firm, Rubin Thomlinson LLP has been recognized in 2016, 2018, and 2024 by Canadian Lawyer Magazine as one of the Top 10 Labour and Employment Law Boutiques in the country, and in 2019 as the Canadian Labour & Employment Law Boutique of the Year, by the Canadian HR Awards.