204.745.2028
mbrown@snj.ca

Practice Areas:

corporate/commercial
agricultural law
real estate
wills/estate planning

Mona G. Brown

Mona Brown's preferred areas of practice are tax planning, agricultural law, wills & estate planning, corporate and commercial law, real estate matters, family law and municipal law. She is also a Chartered Arbitrator and arbitrates Canada Labour Code disputes, tax disputes and private matters as well as acting as Mediator in many disputes. She acts as counsel to municipalities and has acted for developers in major residential developments. She also acts for many farm organizations. In 2004, she and Carena Roller appeared in the Supreme Court of Canada on the Monsanto vs. Schmeiser case (Roundup Ready Canola) as counsel to the intervener, The Canadian Canola Growers Association. Mona is a frequent lecturer on tax estate planning. Mona and her husband, Gordon, operate a grain farm at Sperling. They have two children.

Mona received her B.A. in honor economics and political science from the University of Winnipeg in 1974 and her LL.B. from the University of Manitoba in 1978. She received the Montague Israel prize in 1979 as the most promising student called to the bar. In 1980, she moved her practice to Carman and became a partner in McKenzie, Mooney & Brown. In 2000, she became the managing partner in McCarthy & Brown. She merged her firm with Smith Neufeld Jodoin LLP in January 2008. She is an active member of the CBA and MBA - being a life council member and former vice-chair of the National Wills & Trust subsection. She has been a bencher of the Law Society of Manitoba, has taught Agricultural Law and Wills & Estate Planning to the Bar Administration course and has been a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education seminars.

She is active in LEAF, MAWL, NAWL and the Provincial Council of Women. Her hobbies include travel, gardening, kayaking and skiing. Mona is a founding member of CAFA and has authored and edited chapters in the Family Farm Professional Manual.