Experience plus common sense and good judgment.
Disputes are a distraction and a drain on business owners and their businesses. That’s why Sheree’s clients come to her for her objectivity, guidance and expertise in obtaining the most beneficial, cost-effective resolution of their issue. Sheree brings not only her litigation experience and knowledge of the issue to the table, she brings common sense and good judgment.
Representative matters
With an in-depth understanding of her clients’ businesses, Sheree’s clients call upon her not only for individual disputes, but for assistance with big picture, strategic advice. Her clients include corporations (including directors, officers and shareholders), manufacturers, banks, receivers and individuals in insolvency cases, construction companies and insurers. Some of the ways Sheree has helped her clients include:
- Routinely acting for manufacturers and suppliers in product liability cases, including advising clients on handling potential recalls and management of customer claims.
- Representing a transportation/shipping company in a hearing before the Canadian International Trade Tribunal in a case involving a tender dispute.
- Successfully representing Sobeys in its court challenge of the Sunday shopping legislation and regulations passed by the Nova Scotia government.
- Representing commercial, property and automobile insurers in Nova Scotia, including coverage disputes and defending claims.
- Advising parties in shareholders disputes and oppression claims, including, for example, representing a national real estate brokerage in a shareholder dispute arising out of a property syndication in Alberta.
- Representing parties in obtaining and defending injunctions.
Areas of practice:
- Litigation
- Insurance
- Litigation – Corporate/Commercial
- Product Liability