BROWN, Mona: BA, LL.B., C.Arb, TEP, CAFA®

Mona Brown is a senior partner at PKF Lawyers, where she has been practicing tax and small business law for the last 32 years.  Mona received her B.A. 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.  She is an active member of the CBA and MBA – being a life council member and former vice-chair of the National Wills, Trust and Estate Planning Subsection.  She is a frequent lecturer at continuing legal education and private seminars on Tax and Estate Planning, Agricultural Law and Cottage Succession both in Manitoba and nationally.

She is a Chartered Arbitrator and a founding member of the Canadian Association of Farm Advisors.  In January 2004, she appeared in the S.C.C. on the Monsanto v. Schmeiser case representing the intervener, the Canadian Canola Growers Association.  She and her husband have operated an active grain farm at Sperling, MB for 37 years.  She has recently authored a book on Farm Tax Strategies and Wills and Succession for the Manitoba Department of Agriculture.

Member: Law Society of Manitoba