Marcia McNeil has practiced in the areas of labour, employment and human rights law for more than 20 years.

Representing clients in the private and public sectors, particularly municipalities, police services boards and high-tech companies, Marcia has appeared before British Columbia’s Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, as well as before administrative tribunals, including the provincial and federal Human Rights Tribunal, labour arbitrators and the B.C. Labour Relations Board.

Marcia has been recognized in the 2012 and 2013 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in employment law. She was the Chair of the B.C. Industry Training Appeal Board and the Vice-Chair of the Community Care and Assisted Living Appeal Board of British Columbia. She was a sessional lecturer in Employment Law at the University of Victoria in 2013.

Marcia began practicing in Vancouver in 1990 after clerking with the British Columbia Court of Appeal. She subsequently became senior counsel at the B.C. Labour Relations Board and later transferred to a position with the then Public Service Employee Relations Commission providing advocacy and bargaining services to the Government of British Columbia.

In 1998 she joined the Victoria-based labour and employment firm of Fuller, Pearlman, McNeil before joining Gowlings as a partner in 2008. Like Peter and Susan, Marcia was a partner with a national law firm prior to forming Sheen Arnold McNeil.