The Supreme Court has found that a law partner is not an employee of the firm. The case holds meaning for the thousands of law and accounting partners across the country and the terms by which they must retire. In the case at hand, Vancouver lawyer John (Mitch) McCormick of Fasken Martineau DuMolulin LLP refused to retire when he turned 65 in 2010. He claimed he was an employee and subject to provincial law. The firm has a mandatory retirement clause for partners which it said applied to Mr. Mccormick. The court decided unanimously that he was a member of the partnership that ran the firm and therefore not under its control as an employee.
