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Mike Shannon conducts a trial practice in the field of personal injury and medical malpractice for people who have been seriously injured. His practice areas include personal injury and deaths involving car accidents, medical (health care) malpractice, slip and falls, product liability, aviation and occupier liability; acting for people who have had their long term disability, travel insurance and life insurance claims wrongly denied. He has recovered in excess of $100 Million dollars on behalf of his clients.
Mike is recognized by Lexpert and The Best Lawyers in Canada as one of the lead practioners in the area of personal injury law.
Mike is certified by the Law Society of Upper Canada as a specialist in the area of civil litigation.
Mike has conducted numerous jury trials over the past 25 years. He has also obtained privileges and has conducted litigation in Newfoundland and Arizona.
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Mike has published extensively in the personal injury area. He has lectured at many continuing legal education seminars in the above noted practice area for the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, the Ontario Bar Association, Insight, Osgoode Hall Law School, the Law Society of Upper Canada, the Canadian Institute, Melvin Belli Annual Seminars, the American Association for Justice, The Continuing Legal Education Society of Nova Scotia, Queen’s Faculty of Law, The Advocates’ Society, Forensic Engineering and Materials at the University of Toronto, International Competition for Mediation Advocacy and Osgoode Professional Development Conferences. He has Chaired numerous personal injury conferences.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association. He is a member of the Advocates’ Society, the Canadian Bar Association and the Ontario Bar Association. He is a past Trustee of the Toronto Lawyers Association, past Member of Council of the Canadian Bar Association – Ontario, past Delegate for the Province of Ontario for the American Association for Justice and past member of the Student Advisory Committee for the American Association for Justice.
In 2008 he was the recipient of the Volunteer Tribute Award from the Canadian Paraplegic Association Ontario. He was the recipient of the 2006 Outstanding Volunteer Support from the Canadian Paraplegic Association Ontario and in 2004 the Distinguished Service Award from the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association. He was the Chair of the Annual Toronto Wheelchair Relay for the Canadian Paraplegic Association Ontario for a number of years during which time over $2,000,000 was raised.
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In a recent jury trial Mike was co-counsel with Geoff Adair in which they acted for two plaintiffs, a husband and wife, who had suffered serious orthopedic injuries in a motorcycle accident. The trial took approximately 3 weeks. The jury awarded over $1,200,000 to the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs substantially exceeded their offer to settle and are accordingly likely to be awarded costs on a substantial indemnity basis.”
In a recent jury trial Mike was successful in obtaining a jury verdict of $5.3 Million on behalf of a pedestrian who was struck by a car, after the car was hit from behind by a truck. Mike was able to convince the jury that the car which had been stopped and was waiting to make a turn was 20% at fault and the truck was 80% at fault. This is one of the few cases in Canada where a rear ended vehicle was found at fault. |
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| PERSONAL |
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| Mike is an avid golfer and skier. He coaches minor hockey. |
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