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Shantona Chaudhury co-founded Pape Chaudhury LLP in 2018. Her practice includes commercial litigation, class actions, torts, professional discipline, professional negligence, judicial review, administrative, constitutional, and public international law. She has particular expertise in appeals, having been counsel in over 35 appeals at the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Divisional Court, the Federal Court of Appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada. She also appears before the Superior Court, the Federal Court, and administrative tribunals. She has been appointed as amicus curiae by the Federal Court and the Ontario Court of Appeal.

Shantona is ranked in the Chambers Guide to Canada’s Leading Lawyers, the Canadian Lexpert Directory (commercial litigation and class actions), Best Lawyers, and Benchmark Litigation (Litigation Star). In 2020, she was named to Benchmark’s list of the “Top 50 Women in Litigation”. Lexpert named her a ‘Rising Star’ in 2017, and she on Benchmark’s “Under 40 Hot List” in 2018 and 2019.

Shantona is the co-Executive Director of the Supreme Court Advocacy Institute, a national non-profit organization offering advocacy training to counsel appearing before the Supreme Court of Canada.

Shantona is fluently bilingual (English/French) and was called to the Bar in both Ontario and Québec in 2007. She obtained her B.C.L. from Oxford; her B.C.L./LL.B. from McGill; and her M.A. & B.A. from Queen’s University. Prior to starting practice, she clerked for Justice Ian Binnie, trained as a Middle Temple Fox Scholar pupil barrister in London, interned at the UN International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, interned at the Parliament of Canada, and worked in the music industry.