Maggie Stewart

Associate

INSIGHTS, PERSPECTIVE, SOLUTIONS.

When businesses come to Maggie, they’re not just looking for a lawyer. They’re looking for someone who understands the business world. Maggie makes it her business to not only understand her client’s legal issues, but their operational and organizational goals. Clients benefit from her thirst for knowledge and drive to succeed. Maggie’s focus area is litigation, insurance defence, media law and defamation.

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Working with clients such as newspaper publishers, developers, institutional clients, insurance companies, individuals and local and national businesses, Maggie has helped her clients by:
  • Working on defamation and freedom of the press cases for Atlantic Canada’s leading newspapers.
  • Acting on behalf of major insurance companies in personal injury, accidental death and property damage claims. 
  • Representing a consortium of institutional and industrial clients in Utility and Review Board hearings.
  • Acting on behalf of individuals in debt collections and business disputes.
  • Representing municipalities, developers and individuals in municipal planning and zoning  law matters. 
  • Contributing to the legal team that supported a client’s bid to purchase a multi-million dollar industrial complex.

Areas of practice

  • Litigation
  • Media Law and Defamation
  • Insurance Defence
  • Municipal
  • Media and Entertainment
  • Energy

BAR ADMISSION(S)

Nova Scotia, 2008

LAW SOCIETY(IES)

Nova Scotia Barristers' Society

EDUCATION

Dalhousie University, LL.B., 2007
Dalhousie University, B.A. (honours), 2001

ACTIVITIES

  • Member, Canadian Bar Association
  • Board member, Legacy Centre for the Performing Arts
  • Board member, DaPoPo Theatre 
  • Past board member, Iranian Cultural Society, 2008-2009
  • Volunteer: actively  engaged at the national level, in advocacy on equity and labour issues in professional theatre, particularly with respect to Aboriginal and culturally diverse performing arts organizations
  • Member, Ad Idem / Canadian Media Lawyers’ Association
  • Member, Canadian Defence Lawyers

LANGUAGE(S)

English, French

Suite 900
Purdy's Wharf Tower One
1959 Upper Water Street
Halifax, NS, Canada
B3J 3N2

P 902.444.1731
F 902.420.1417

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LEGAL ASSISTANT(S)

Ann Pottie

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