Kathleen McDormand

Partner and Lead, Team North

Location
Ottawa
Phone

Presentations & Publications

Beyond Our Walls

Professional Involvement

  • Member, Steering Committee, Cambridge Forum for Senior Estates & Trusts Practitioners – 2nd Generation
  • Member, Awards Committee, County of Carleton Law Association​
  • Trustee, Board of Trustees, Booth University College
  • Member, Law Society of Ontario
  • Member, Canadian Bar Association and Ontario Bar Association
  • Member, OBA Trusts and Estates Law Section Executive
  • Member, Law Society of Nunavut
  • Member, County of Carleton Law Association
  • Member, Society of Trust and Estates Practitioners

Community Involvement

  • Member, Salvation Army Canada and Bermuda Territory National Advisory Board
  • Youth Programs Coordinator, Salvation Army Ottawa Citadel
  • Past Chair, Board of Governors, Ottawa Grace Manor
  • Past Member, Camp Quality Eastern Ontario (camp for children living with cancer)

Awards & Recognitions

  • Selected by peers for inclusion in the 2025 edition (and since 2019) of The Best Lawyers in Canada® (Corporate and Commercial Litigation).
  • Recognized in the 2025 edition (and since 2021) of Chambers Canada - Canada's Leading Lawyers for Business (General Business Law: Northern Canada and Arctic).
  • Recognized in the 2025 edition (and since 2017) of The Canadian Legal Lexpert® Directory (Estate & Personal Tax Planning - Estate Litigation). Also recognized in the 2019 edition for Commercial Litigation.
  • Recognized in the 2025 edition of Benchmark Canada as a "Litigation Star" (Commercial; Estate).
  • Recipient of the 2025 CCLA Gordon F. Henderson Award.

Bar Admission & Education

  • Nunavut, 2010
  • Ontario, 2002
  • Workplace Mental Health Leadership Certificate, Faculty of Health Sciences, Queen's University, 2018
  • Program on Negotiation: Mediating Disputes Course, Harvard Law School Executive Program, June 2018
  • Accelerated Leadership Program, Harvard Law School, March 2018
  • Business Leadership for Women Lawyers Program, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, 2016
  • TEP,
  • LLB, University of Ottawa, 2001
  • B.Soc.Sci. (Hons.), University of Ottawa, 1998