Lawyer Talk with Donovan Francis (Short-Form)

The Job Talk Podcast - Episode 054
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Profile of our guest in this episode of The Job Talk Podcast:
Donovan H. Francis is Founder and Managing Lawyer at Ontario registered law firm,
GOOSELAW™ Immigration, located in the Greater Toronto Area, Canada.
Donovan currently helps businesses inside Canada and from around the world bring
talent to Canada without dealing with complicated immigration laws. He leads a team of
lawyers and immigration support workers dedicated to helping billion-dollar multinational
corporations, Canadian and foreign owned startups as well as medium-sized companies
seeking work permit support for their foreign employees or wishing to create a Canadian
startup for immigration purposes.
He leverages his expertise as a Canadian educated lawyer, a go-to marketing and
communications professional, and a proud immigrant to Canada, to provide high-quality
Canadian immigration services. He leads his team in helping Canadian and foreign
employers navigate complex immigration regulations, including those related to
international trade agreements such as NAFTA, CETA and GATS. Donovan also
provides direction related to various work permit categories, including intra-company
transferees and labour market impact assessments and Global Skills Strategy
applications.
PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE
In the past, he worked as a business immigration lawyer at a global corporate
immigration law firm where he advised a diverse portfolio of clients, including global
corporations and Fortune 500 companies, as well as small and medium-sized
companies.
He has also served as head of communications and marketing within a division of global
engineering firm, Worley. He provided the company's leadership team with strategic
marketing, advertising, and internal communications advice around multiple long and
short-term corporate outcomes.
QUALIFICATION HIGHLIGHTS
Donovan is a member in good standing of the Law Society of Ontario and has been
admitted to the Ontario Court of Appeal and the Ontario Superior Court of Justice. He is
also a member of the Canadian Bar Association and the Canadian Association of Black
Lawyers. Under appointment under The Notaries Act, RSO 1990, Donovan is a certified
Notary Public & Commissioner.
A graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, Canada, Donovan holds a Juris
Doctor (Law degree) and a master’s degree in Communications and Technology from
the University of Alberta, Canada. He is also a proud alum of the University of The West
Indies (Mona) in Jamaica.
BOARD DIRECTORSHIP AND COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Donovan has held positions on several boards and committees and has served in an
advisory and managerial role for different political campaigns in Alberta and Ontario. He
is currently Director of Human Resources & Legal Affairs at CANCARO (Canadian,
Migration & Counter Trafficking in Persons Organization). He has served as
Communications Director, CARIWEST Festival (Western Canada’s largest Caribbean
street festival) as well as on the M.A. in Communications and Technology Advisory
Board at the University of Alberta. He also served on the Faculty of Extension Awards
Committee also at the University of Alberta.
Recent Speaking Engagements
Speaker - Collision Conference June 27, 2023, Toronto - Masterclasses at Collision
Conference 2023: Effective Immigration Strategies: How to Bring Global Tech Talent to
Canada (upcoming).
Guest lecturer - University of Victoria Faculty of Law - September 4, 2022: The
statutory and regulatory scheme governing the immigration of temporary skilled workers
required for Canadian and multinational corporations.
Panelist, Osgoode Hall Law School, Immigration Law Intensive (York University):
Pursuing a career in Immigration law
CZcams channel Host: Presenter on CZcams channel with close to 40,000
subscribers globally and a focus on Canadian immigration:
/ @gooselawimmigrationtv
Media appearances
The Monitor magazine - published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives,
January 26, 2022: We are all Afghanistan
International Business Times, May 2020: Americans Are ‘Window Shopping’ Canada
Move Requirements Amid Election Result Wait
Asaase Breakfast Show - Asaase Radio, July, 2022: Canadian immigration session in
Accra, Ghana
The Entrepreneur Nation™ on Rogers TV, May 2022: Immigration for Canadian
businesses and families