Kiran Kang
Partner
- Location:
Toronto
- Phone:
416-979-4242
- Fax:
416-591-7333
- Email:
Biography
Progressive, principled, and professional, Kiran Kang tackles hard cases with poise and grace, inspiring the confidence of her clients. No case is too big or too small for her as she takes all of her clients’ concerns with the same degree of seriousness and care, regardless of the issue.
Kiran works primarily with public sector union clients across Ontario, including those representing teachers, firefighters, college faculty, and municipal employees. She works on a wide range of issues including promotion and discipline; collective agreement interpretation; workplace privacy; human rights, harassment, and accommodation; as well as complaints before professional regulatory bodies including the College of Teachers. Kiran also helps to secure wins for working people at the bargaining table and at interest arbitration. She offers her clients reliable, sensible, and sympathetic advice.
Recently, Kiran served as counsel to the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario in a landmark decision from the Supreme Court that confirmed that public school teachers in Ontario enjoy Charter protections in their workplaces, including the right to privacy under s. 8 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. She has also fought to secure accidental death benefits for first responders; to entrench a robust right to preparation time for teachers (see here and here); and to enforce compliance with the statutory “freeze” provisions under s. 86 of the Labour Relations Act, among others.
Kiran has an established profile as a leader in the profession on issues related to equity, inclusion, and negotiations. Through this work, she regularly provides anti-harassment and cultural humility workshops to professionals including lawyers, paralegals, adjudicators, administrative and managerial staff, educators, and emergency service providers. She also serves as a mentor to junior lawyers and law students through organizations such as GROWL, SABA Toronto, and OWN, and has previously served on the executives of the OBA’s Education Law Section and its Constitutional, Civil Liberties and Human Rights Law Section. Currently, Kiran serves as the Treasurer of Halton Community Legal Services. In recognition of her contributions to the legal profession, Kiran was the 2023 recipient of the Ontario Bar Association’s Heather McArthur Memorial Young Lawyers Award.
Born and raised in the Prairies, with degrees from the University of Alberta and Osgoode Hall Law School, Kiran was called to the Ontario Bar in 2016 after articling at the firm.
When not working, Kiran is busy learning lessons in patience, the art of culinary rejection, risk-management, and negotiation from her three young kids and trying to not humiliate herself too badly in a women’s basketball league.