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Dan Michaluk acts on behalf of management in employment and human rights matters and in a full range of matters related to information management and privacy. He works across all of the firm's client sectors, but does a significant amount of work with post-secondary educational institutions, both on student and labour and employment matters. In his privacy practice, Dan has advised public and private sector clients on privacy compliance, records management and security breaches and has represented clients in responding to access-to-information appeals and privacy complaints.
In 2009, Dan was featured in Law Times as one of three lawyers in Canada with a privacy niche practice. Dan is also a well-known and published writer and speaker on the law of information management and privacy. His “All About Information” blog won a Canadian Law Blog award in 2009 for Best Practitioner’s Blog and he is a regular contributor to the Slaw.ca cooperative legal blog.
Dan received a Bachelor of Commerce in 1994 and an LL.B. in 1997. Prior to joining the firm he was the Director of Operations for a start-up business simulation software company.
Decisions
- Re College Compensation and Appointments Council and O.P.S.E.U. (Interest Dispute), [2006] O.L.A.A. No. 399 (Kaplan)
- Re University of Toronto (Governing Council) and U.T.F.A. (Interest Dispute) (2006), 148 L.A.C. (4th) 193 (Winkler)
Publications
- B.J. Bowlby, D. Michaluk and J. Wootton Regan, An Educator's Guide to Human Rights, 2nd Ed., (Toronto: Canada Law Book, 2009)
- D. Michaluk, "Employer access to employee e-mails in Canada," (2009) Canadian Privacy Law Review, Vol. 6, No. 10.
- D. Michaluk, "A lawyer's perspective on records retention and destruction," (Originally presented at the Canadian Institute's "Managing Your Privacy Obligations" conference in May 2009)
- D. Michaluk, "Cloud Computing, Second Life and the University," (September 17, 2008)
- D. Michaluk, "Protect your domain name from rogue departing employees," (July 10, 2008)
- D. Michaluk, "Privacy law, students at risk and the safe campus," (Summer 2008) University Manager
- D. Michaluk, "Recent Cases Illustrate Polarity of Privacy Rules for Litigants," (2008) 8:3 Eye on Privacy
- D. Michaluk, "Finding the weak links in health care data security," (2008) 5:1 Employee Benefit News Canada
- D. Michaluk, "Understanding Church and State - The Occupational Health and Safety Department and PHIPA," (2007) 9:1 Eye on Privacy
- D. Michaluk and C. Peters, "Student at Risk: Maintaining Balance after Virginia Tech," (May 15, 2007)
- D. Michaluk, "Walking the Tightrope - Recent Developments in Employee Surveillance," (Originally presented at the OHRPA's May 2007 Ottawa Law Conference.)
- D. Michaluk, "Consequences of employees' refusal to provide personal information not covered by PIPEDA," (2007) 26 The Lawyers Weekly 46
- D. Michaluk, "School Closures," (2007) 19:1 Education Today 10
- D. Michaluk, "It's Not in My Job Description," (2005) 17:2 Education Today 6
Professional and Community Affiliations
- Member, OBA Privacy Law Section Executive
- Member, Sedona Canada Working Group (Steering Committee Member)
- Member, The Canadian Association of Professional Access and Privacy Administrators
- Member, Canadian Association of University Solicitors
- Member, College Compensation and Appointments Council Central Arbitration Review Committee
Year of Call
Education
- Queen's University, LL.B.
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