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| Fred KOZAK Q.C. Partner |
e: fkozak@rmrf.com p: 780.497.3358 f: 780.429.3044 |
1976 – B.A., University of Alberta
1981 – LL.B., University of Alberta
1982 – Admitted to the Alberta Bar
2008 – Appointed Queen’s Counsel
2009 - Admitted to the Northwest Territories Bar
2010 - Admitted to the Yukon Bar
Fred carries on a civil litigation practice with an emphasis on constitutional law, media and defamation issues, employment and administrative proceedings. He represents several national news organizations, and provides pre-publication advice to print and broadcast media outlets. Fred has been counsel in five cases where the Charter has been used to strike down provincial or federal legislation, and has appeared in all levels of the courts of Alberta and in the Supreme Court of Canada.
Major Media Clients Include:
- Edmonton Journal
- CBC
- Globe and Mail
- CanWest
- CTV
- The National Post
- Canadian Press
- Broadcast News
- Lethbridge Herald
- Medicine Hat News
Member of:
- Law Society of Alberta
- Law Society of Northwest Territories
- Law Society of Yukon
- Canadian Bar Association
- Edmonton Bar Association
- Canadian Media Lawyers Association (Ad Idem)
- Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association
- Past Board Chair – Heart & Stroke Foundation of Alberta, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut
- President – Canadian Media Lawyers Association (Ad Idem)
- Founding Director - Edmonton Police Foundation
- Recognized as a "Leading Practitioner" in the area of Defamation by the 2009 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory.
- Recipient of the 2010 Award of Honorary Membership in the Alberta Dental Association and College.
- Recipient of the 2008 Champion's Award by the Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association.
- Sessional lecturer – Grant MacEwan College – “The Law and the Media”
- Past Lecturer - University of Alberta - Employment Law