Ron Franklin

Ron Franklin founded Franklin Law, a social justice-oriented, human rights, employment, and labour law firm focused on empowering workers to fight injustice at work. From the outset, access to justice, social justice, the inherent dignity of all human beings, and collaborative lawyering, have shaped his vision of what a law firm could and should be, and those considerations remain defining features of his clients’ experiences to this day. Ron has represented an incredibly diverse group of workers and has seen first-hand the interplay between their ethno-racial, gender-sexual, socioeconomic, and ability-based identities and their lived experiences at work. Through his extensive human rights advocacy, he has had the honour of representing workers before the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, Canadian Human Rights Commission, Canadian Human Rights Tribunal, Divisional Court, and Federal Court, and in grievance arbitration. Ron remains active in the community. He presents human rights workshops to students, lawyers, and the public and is currently a member of the Association of Human Rights Lawyers, the ARCH Disability Law Centre, the Workers Action Centre, the Law Union, the Canadian Association of Black Lawyers, and the Jamaican Canadian Bar Association.