2026 ADVISORY BOARD

Monique Jilesen is Managing Partner at Lenczner Slaght. She is a formidable advocate and one of the top litigators of her generation in Canada. Her practice focuses on class actions, contract and shareholder disputes, civil fraud cases, injunctions, professional liability, bankruptcy and insolvency matters, and securities and derivatives cases. 

Monique is a fearless litigator who clients trust to take on their most tough, notable, and high-profile cases, even at a moment’s notice. Monique successfully represented the University of Toronto in securing an interlocutory injunction to peacefully end a 50-day encampment on Front Campus.

She appeared at the Supreme Court of Canada representing intervenor, CFA Societies Canada, in an important appeal addressing reporting issuers' disclosure obligations under the Securities Act. In Li v Barber, she secured an unprecedented Mareva order freezing up to $20 million of assets and cryptocurrency of Freedom Convoy leaders. 

Monique was successful trial counsel to CN Railway in a complex 6-week Commercial List trial involving employee fraud and breach of fiduciary duty, resulting in a $10+ million judgment for her client. She also represented Douglas Cardinal in an injunction to restrain the use in Canada of the Cleveland baseball team's racist name and logo on human rights grounds. 

Monique’s extraordinary advocacy and leadership have been widely recognized with Fellowship in the American College of Trial Lawyers and International Academy of Trial Lawyers, the Law Society Medal, the Douglas K. Laidlaw Award for Excellence in Advocacy, and Toronto Life’s Top 50 Most Influential designation, among others.