About Jenna

Jenna Shaddock-Smith practises family and child protection law at CDR Law. She earned her Juris Doctor from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University in 2020, after completing a Master of Science in Kinesiology at Dalhousie in 2017 and a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Kinesiology and Psychology at the University of New Hampshire in 2015. During law school she served as Vice President Academic, volunteered with the Tenants' Rights Program at Dalhousie Legal Aid, and completed a placement with the Nova Scotia Supreme Court's Family Division. She is an executive member of the Canadian Bar Association's Child and Youth Law Section and sits on the Board of the Law Foundation of Nova Scotia, and is a practising lawyer with the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society.

Practice areas

Education & credentials

Law school
Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
Undergraduate
University of New Hampshire, Bachelor of Science (Hons) in Kinesiology and Psychology
Other degrees
Masters of Science in Kinesiology, Dalhousie University, 2017

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