Megan Shortreed is a top lawyer recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Administrative and Public Law, Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Health Care Law, Labour and Employment Law and Trusts and Estates.
Megan 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 is recognized by Chambers Canada, where she is noted as a “very strong litigator”. She is also recognized in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, The Best Lawyers in Canada and Benchmark Canada, where she was named Health Law/Medical Litigator of the Year in 2021 and 2024. 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. Megan is a Bencher of the Law Society of Ontario and a former Director of The Advocates’ Society.
Megan, who practices law in Toronto, Ontario, has been recognized since 2014. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Megan is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.