Principled. Strategic. Impactful.

Mercer provides fearless, rights-based legal advocacy with a focus on gender-based violence, workplace harassment, and human rights. Whether appearing before tribunals, courts, or public inquiries, she brings clarity, compassion, and tenacity to every matter. She’s particularly skilled at managing complex, sensitive issues involving trauma, power imbalance, or systemic harm—always with a client-first approach rooted in dignity and justice.

Specialties:

• Sexual violence and harassment claims

• Human rights complaints

• Survivor-centred legal strategy

• Systemic advocacy on GBV and equity issues

• Legal counsel in high-profile and sensitive matters

Policy Innovation Meets Grounded Experience

We work with governments, non-profits, and institutions to design and implement transformative policies, programs, and governance solutions. With experience at the highest levels of political leadership, she understands how to turn bold ideas into practical action—whether drafting legislation, shaping communications strategies, or building coalitions for change.

Specialties:

• Public policy and legislative reform

• Organizational equity strategy

• Strategic communications for advocacy

• Legal risk and governance analysis

• System design rooted in intersectional feminism

Centring Justice in Public Accountability

Mercer brings deep experience representing parties in inquests that uncover systemic challenges, especially in the context of gender-based violence. Her work in the Renfrew Inquest helped shape public understanding of femicide and intimate partner violence, with a focus on prevention, accountability, and survivor voices.

Specialties:

• Legal representation of families and advocacy groups

• Gender-based violence and institutional failure

• Coroner’s inquests and public inquiries

• Policy recommendations and systemic reform

• Trauma-informed, survivor-centred process navigation

From Evidence to Action

Mercer leads and contributes to research projects that inform law reform, policy development, and movement strategy. With a strong background in qualitative research, policy analysis, and rights-based frameworks, she delivers work that’s both analytically rigorous and practically useful—supporting clients to turn insights into action.

Specialties:

• Gender-based violence and workplace harassment

• Legal and policy analysis

• Strategic convening and stakeholder engagement

• Report writing, submissions, and advocacy tools

• Intersectional feminist and decolonial frameworks

We understand the importance of objective, fair, thorough and timely investigations that are conducted in accordance with the law and your organizational policies.

We bring a trauma-informed approach to complex disputes that get results that our clients can use to make sound decisions and ensure that they can meet their legal obligations.