McBride & Shields

About McBride & Shields

McBride & Shields is a small, fully bilingual litigation and corporate firm with its head office in downtown Toronto and a second office in New Liskeard, in Northeastern Ontario. It's run by two partners, Amanda McBride and managing partner Daniel Michaud-Shields, who both practice in English and French. The firm says it can advise on federal law as well as Ontario, Alberta, British Columbia, and Quebec provincial law, though its lawyers are personally called to the Ontario and Quebec bars.

The practice centres on civil and commercial litigation, covering insurance, contract, real estate, and corporate disputes, along with corporate and commercial work such as incorporations, financing, and shareholder agreements. It also practices employment law and Indigenous law, advising on matters such as impact and benefit agreements, the duty to consult and accommodate, and hearings before regulatory and land use planning tribunals.

Daniel Michaud-Shields has argued matters before the Superior Court in Ontario and Quebec, the Court of Appeal of Ontario, and the Supreme Court of Canada. Amanda McBride has appeared before the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Financial Services Commission of Ontario, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal, and Quebec courts.