Queen’s Marque
600-1741 Lower Water Street
Halifax, N.S.
B3J 0J2
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.
Education & Career
Education
University of New Brunswick, LLB, 1999
Middlebury College, BA, 1996
Activities
Member, Canadian Bar Association
Accolades
Chambers and Partners Canada 2024 – 2025 Litigation: General Commercial – Atlantic Canada, Band 3 lawyer
Lexpert rating: Personal Injury, 2021 – 2024
Lexpert rating: Litigation – Commercial Insurance, 2018 – 2024
Best Lawyers: Insurance Law, 2022 – 2025
Best Lawyers: Personal Injury Litigation, 2013 – 2025