Megan Shortreed routinely represents clients in corporate, commercial, employment, civil, and administrative litigation. She argues cases involving shareholder and partnership disputes, duties of directors and employees, trusts and estates, product liability, and other complex commercial cases. She acts often on behalf of senior executives respecting their compensation, employment contracts or termination from employment, and for both employers and employees in respect of sensitive workplace investigations. She appears before the Toronto Commercial and Estates Lists, Ontario Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. She has extensive hearings experience before professional disciplinary tribunals. Megan has been featured in the Lexpert Special Edition — Litigation and has been listed by Lexpert since 2015 for Litigation – Corporate Commercial. She is recognized by both The Best Lawyers in Canada and Benchmark Canada. Megan was the inaugural recipient of the Honsberger Award, presented by the Toronto Lawyers Association in 2014, and received the Lexpert Zenith Award Celebrating Women in Law in 2017. In 2021, she was named Health Law/Medical Litigator of the Year by Benchmark Litigation Canada. Megan is a Bencher of the LSO and a former Director of The Advocates’ Society.
