Jamie Corbett

Jamie Corbett is a thoughtful and empathetic advocate for trade unions and the working people they represent.

Before law, she researched traditional music and the musicians who make it in Southern Brazil. In addition to other aspects of the public life of traditional music, she examined how traditional musicians access public funding to piece together their livelihoods. While writing, Jamie also worked as a TA and was part of the historic vote to unionize graduate students at Brown University with the American Federation of Teachers.

Ready for a new challenge, Jamie shifted to studying law at the University of Toronto to advocate for working people. She worked at Advocate for Injured Workers, where she represented injured workers with their WSIB matters. She also served as a co-manager of Artists Legal Advice Services, a no-cost clinic exclusively for Canadian artists’ legal issues in relation to their artistic work. Upon graduation, she received two class prizes for outstanding achievement in labour law.

Before joining UPFH, Jamie articled and worked as an associate lawyer at a union-side labour law firm in Toronto. She practised exclusively in the areas of labour, employment and WSIB law.

Jamie is a member of the Ontario Bar Association and the Canadian Association of Labour Lawyers.