About Mary-Anne
Mary-Anne is a senior partner at Beckett and leads the Plaintiff Injury Group.
Mary-Anne has been passionately advocating for those injured in motor vehicle collisions and slip and fall accidents, since she was called to the Ontario Bar in 2002. She also represents individuals in disputes with their own insurance companies, particularly for long-term disability benefits and Statutory Accident Benefits, through the motor vehicle insurance system. Mary-Anne has handled many fatality cases representing parents and siblings who have lost loved ones in motor vehicle collisions. While fearlessly advocating for compensation for wrongful deaths, she seeks to provide her clients with compassionate guidance through the litigation process.
Injured claimants can depend on Mary-Anne to skillfully and passionately argue for their rights. She has vast experience appearing before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice and the License Appeal Tribunal. She has also argued a complex auto insurance case, Van Bastelaar v. Bentley et al., before the Ontario Court of Appeal.
Mary-Anne’s experience and training extends beyond her degree in law — she also completed two executive training programs on negotiations and a mediator’s training program, through Harvard Law School. She has been a guest lecturer at the University of Windsor Law School on insurance topics. She has provided several presentations for the Law Society of Ontario, Ontario Trial Lawyers Association, and the Middlesex Law Association on various insurance and litigation topics. Her cases have been reported in the Ontario Reports, Lawyers Weekly, and the Law Times.
In 2023, Mary-Anne was appointed to the Ontario Civil Rules Committee by the Honourable Chief Justice Morawetz. She is also a member of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association and has served on its Board of Directors since 2019. Most recently she serves on the Executive Committee of the Board and chairs the Practice Direction Committee which regularly drafts submissions to the government to address concerns for victims of car collisions and civil litigants in Ontario. Mary-Anne is very honoured to have been recently named Vice- President Elect and to be able to serve as Vice – President of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association for 2024/ 2025, President – Elect for 2025/2026 and as President of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association in 2026/2027.
Mary-Anne was born and raised in Windsor, Ontario and attended the University of Windsor for her undergraduate degree. She obtained her Bachelor of Laws at the University of Western Ontario in London. Mary-Anne practices exclusively in personal injury civil matters on behalf of injured people throughout Ontario, with her main practice in London, Ontario.
Outside of the practice of law, Mary-Anne has been a strong supporter and fundraiser for the Terry Fox Foundation, which is a charity of particular importance to her and her family.