Lawyer Profile
Michelle C. Awad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Overview
Michelle is a senior partner in McInnes Cooper’s Litigation and Insurance Groups. She is a Fellow of both the American College of Trial Lawyers and the International Academy of Trial Lawyers. Michelle practices throughout Atlantic Canada in the areas of commercial litigation and arbitration, securities, risk management, shareholder disputes, product liability, defamation, commercial insurance and bonding, and disability and life insurance underwriting and claims. Michelle is known for her strategic and client-focused advice leading to dispute avoidance and dispute resolution. She has represented businesses and business leaders from all parts of Canada and around the world before all levels of Courts, including the Federal Court and the Supreme Court of Canada. Outside of law practice, Michelle is a Director of the Halifax Port Authority and a member of the QEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation Board of Trustees. In her spare time, Michelle enjoys tennis, running, skiing and cooking.
McInnes Cooper is very pleased to have 86 of our lawyers, with representation across all six of our offices, recognized in the 15th edition…
McInnes Cooper congratulates Partner Michelle Awad QC on being named one of Benchmark’s Top 25 Female Litigators in Canada again for 2016. This…
McInnes Cooper is proud to congratulate our Partners, Kevin Kiley, Kevin Gibson, Michelle Awad QC, and Gavin Giles QC, on their…
McInnes Cooper is proud to congratulate Partner Michelle Awad, QC on being named one of Benchmark’s Top 25 Female Litigators in…
On July 18, 2014, McInnes Cooper Partner Michelle Awad, QC was recognized by Benchmark Canada as one of Canada’s top 25 women litigators in…
McInnes Cooper is delighted to announce that Michelle Awad, QC has been recognized with a 2013 Lexpert Zenith Award: Celebrating Women Leaders…
McInnes Cooper is proud to have 14 of our lawyers nationally recognized as Provincial Litigation Stars for The Atlantics in the 2026 Edition of…
Practice Areas
Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1992 (NS); 2010 (NS)