Megan Delaronde

About Megan Delaronde

Megan Delaronde is a criminal defence lawyer and associate at Cooper Lord Law in Kitchener. Megan will take on any type of charge, and young people, Indigenous clients, drug and firearm cases, and files that involve a search warrant get particular attention. Clients can come to Megan on a Legal Aid certificate or as private clients.

The road to the defence side ran through the Crown's office first. While at Osgoode Hall Law School, Megan spent two summers working at the Kitchener Crown Office and earned distinction in the criminal and Indigenous law courses. Articles were split between Tonya Kent and Cooper Lord Law, on matters that ranged from straightforward charges all the way to complex murder files. Once articling wrapped up, Megan came back to Cooper Lord as an associate, and was called to the bar at a ceremony in London, Ontario, in June 2025.

Criminal law was Megan's goal from early on. Megan studied legal studies at the University of Waterloo and worked briefly in tech before law school, and served from 2021 to 2023 as Director of Cultural and Community Relations for the Osgoode Indigenous Students' Association. Megan is a member of the Red Sky Métis Independent Nation in Thunder Bay. The call to the bar was a family milestone too: Megan was called at the same ceremony as one of Megan's parents. Megan credits that parent's encouragement and tenacity for the decision to enrol in law school in the first place, and talks about the work with real urgency: "Justice just waits for no one."

Megan's work has reached the Supreme Court of Canada. In the Korduner appeal (SCC file 41737), Megan was one of four lawyers acting for the intervener Women in Canadian Criminal Defence. The appeal asks whether s. 320.31(9) of the Criminal Code, which makes statements to police, including ones compelled under a provincial law, admissible to justify a breath demand, infringes s. 7 of the Charter. The intervener's position was that using compelled statements this way narrows the protection against self-incrimination, and that the effect would be felt most by marginalized communities and especially women. The Court heard the appeal on February 17, 2026.