John-Paul Alexandrowicz

Practicing in both English and French, John-Paul Alexandrowicz is an experienced school board lawyer and co-chair of BLG’s National School Boards Practice. His practice involves strategic advice and oral and written advocacy in a variety of forums including arbitration, labour boards, human rights tribunals and the courts. John-Paul has represented and advised almost every public, Catholic and francophone school boards in Ontario, both directly and through their provincial school boards associations. He has also acted for a number of independent schools across the province.

John-Paul has advised and appeared at well over a thousand arbitrations and at the Ontario Labour Relations Board on behalf of school boards and their provincial school boards associations. John-Paul is extensively involved in the central bargaining and local bargaining process under the School Boards Collective Bargaining Act and represents school boards in unfair labour practice and unlawful strike applications, including most recently in the November 2022 Ontario-wide school strike.

John-Paul has extensive knowledge of school board operations and often appears at school board trustee meetings to provide clear explanations of complex matters, including governance, student and executive compensation matters.

John-Paul teaches education law to upper-year law students at the Queen’s University Faculty of Law. In the past, he has taught industrial relations and labour law at George Brown College and Osgoode Hall Law School, where he was the program director for the Master of Laws in Labour and Employment Law. John-Paul is also on the Board of Directors and one of the founders of the Canadian Network of Education Human Resource Professionals CNEHRP which held its inaugural conference in Vancouver in March 2025.