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Shelley A. Wood,
K.C.

Partner

Wood Shelley

Language(s) spoken: English, French

Bar Admission(s): New Brunswick, 2000; Nova Scotia, 2003

Legal Assistant(s): George Daves

Shelley uses practice innovation to help her clients address the issues they face in an efficient, cost-effective manner. Her clients include corporations, insurers, and manufacturers. Some of the ways Shelley has helped her clients include:

  • Representing a hospital in defence of a claim of environmental toxicity.
  • Acting as coverage counsel in a class action suit against an automobile manufacturer.
  • Representing commercial, property, and automobile insurers in personal injury, commercial, and coverage cases.
  • Representing long term disability insurers in defending claims.
  • Extensive experience in defending restaurants, hotels, landlords, retail stores and snow removal contractors against occupier’s liability claims.

Practice Areas

Education & Career

Education

University of New Brunswick, LLB, 1999
Middlebury College, BA, 1996

Activities

Member, Canadian Bar Association

Accolades

King’s Counsel, 2025
Best Lawyers: Insurance Law, 2022 – 2025
Best Lawyers: Personal Injury Litigation, 2013 – 2025
Chambers and Partners Canada 2024 – 2025 Litigation: General Commercial – Atlantic Canada, Band 3 lawyer
Lexpert rating: Personal Injury, 2021 – 2025
Lexpert rating: Litigation – Commercial Insurance, 2018 – 2025

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