About Katherine

Katherine Shapiro is an associate at Rice Parsons Leoni & Elliott LLP, practising primarily in class actions on behalf of consumers and injured people across Canada in product liability, privacy, competition, and securities litigation. She began her career at a plaintiff-side class action firm in Toronto and has appeared as counsel at all levels of court in Ontario and British Columbia. Her cases have included proposed class actions over Depo-Provera, PFAS contamination, and vaping and social media harms to youth. Katherine was called to the bar in Ontario in 2022 and in British Columbia in 2023. She holds a J.D. from the University of Toronto (2021) and a B.M.Sc. in biochemistry from the University of Western Ontario (2017).

Practice areas

Class Actions

Education & credentials

Law school
University of Toronto
Undergraduate
University of Western Ontario, B.M.Sc. Biochemistry (2017)

Listing compiled from public sources in July 2026. Confirm Katherine Shapiro’s licence and standing in the Law Society of British Columbia directory ↗