Joanna Sweet – Managing Partner

Joanna Sweet

Managing Partner

Practice Areas: Personal Injury

Joanna is a managing partner at Greg Monforton and Partners since 2023, having joined there as an associate lawyer in 2013. Her practice focuses on representing people who have been injured in car crashes, slip and falls, and dog bites. She also represents her clients in their accident benefits, long term disability and Canada Pension Plan – Disability claims. She also works in the area of estate litigation. She never represents insurance companies.

Joanna grew up in Essex County. She graduated with her law degree from the University of Windsor in 2005 and she earned a doctorate in political science from Carleton University in 2012. She has published articles in The Litigator, which is the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association’s flagship publication, as well as papers on political theory and Canadian politics in various academic journals. She has taught as a sessional instructor in the University of Windsor’s political science department and has taught Constitutional Law and Auto Insurance Law in the University of Windsor’s Faculty of Law.

Since 2021, Joanna sits on the board of the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association (OTLA) where she has been involved in numerous submissions to the Ontario Government. She is passionate about safeguarding the rights of injured people through political advocacy. In 2023 she joined the Executive of the OTLA board and chairs the Continuing Legal Education committee. She is a co-chair of the Essex Law Association Bench and Bar Committee. Joanna is also a member of The Advocates’ Society and Canadian Bar Association.