Shelagh Burrowes
Senior Associate
Norton Rose Fulbright Canada LLP
Biography
Shelagh Burrowes focuses primarily on employment-related matters, including drafting and revising employment contracts and advising clients on issues regarding human rights, employment policies and procedures, and employment-related litigation.
Professional experience
Collapse allJ.D., Queen’s University, 2011
M.A., Queen’s University, 2008
B.A.(Hons.), University of Calgary, 2006
- Alberta 2012
Ms. Burrowes has acted for clients in various employment and immigration matters including:
- Wrongful dismissal litigation
- Human rights complaints
- Reviewing and drafting employment agreements, non-competition agreements, non-solicitation agreements and workplace policies and procedures
- WeirFoulds LLP Award, Highest Standing in Remedies, Queen’s University, 2010
- Graduate Award, Queen’s University, 2007
- Jason Lang Scholarships, 2003, 2004 and 2005
- Canadian Bar Association
- Law Society of Alberta
- Calgary Bar Association
- Volunteer, UEnd Poverty, 2012
- Associate editor, Queen’s Law Journal, 2009 - 2010
- Co-chair, Queen’s Law Chapter of CLaIHR (Canadian Lawyers for International Human Rights), 2009 - 2010
- Volunteer editor, Queen’s Law Journal, 2008 - 2009
- Vice president (external) & acting president, Undergraduate English Literature Students’ Society, University of Calgary, 2005 – 2006