Overview
CODY YORKE is an associate in Outten & Golden LLP, and a member of the firm’s Executives and Professionals Practice Group. Prior to joining the firm in 2018, Ms. Yorke worked as an associate at a leading Canadian employment law firm. Ms. Yorke was counsel in Galea v. Wal-Mart Canada Inc., a groundbreaking employment law case in which her client was awarded nearly $1.7 million, including $500,000 in punitive damages and $250,000 in moral damages, awarded in Canadian law for an employer’s bad faith. The decision is the highest moral damages award in Canadian law and one of the highest punitive damages awards in Canadian employment law.
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Bar Admissions
New York
Admitted in 2018
Awards
- Queen's Law Course Prize in Evidence
- Torkin Manes LLP Academic Excellence & Community Service Award
- Gavel Award
- Reuben Wells Leonard Prize in Equality Rights and the Charter
- Sherrard Kuzz LLP Prize in Labour Law, Employment Law, and Administrative Law
Organizations & Affiliations
LGBT Bar Association of Greater New York
Member
New York Women’s Bar Association
Member
Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York
Member
Languages
English
Education
Queen’s University, J.D.
Graduated 2014
Contact Details and Office Locations
Office: (212) 245-1000
Fax: (646) 509-2060
685 Third Avenue, 25th Floor
New York, New York 10017
New York, New York 10017
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