Desneiges joined McCague Borlack in 2012 as the first associate hired in the firm’s Ottawa office. A gifted researcher with extensive trial experience, she assists the Ottawa office with complex matters.

She represents both individual and corporate clients, predominantly in employment law and human rights, and also in insurance defence, with a focus on professional negligence. She has appeared before the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, the Divisional Court, the Court of Appeal for Ontario, and many tribunals including the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario, the Workplace Safety and Insurance Appeals Tribunal, and the Canada Industrial Relations Board. Earlier in her career she was a special advisor at the RCMP and advised RCMP senior management on workplace conduct and professional responsibility.

Desneiges is a part-time professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, where she teaches Civil Procedure. She is also an adjudicator appointed under the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Act. 

Featured Cases:

• Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada v. Canada Revenue Agency, 2025 FPSLREB 56
• Heyworth v. Doyle Plumbing, Heating & Cooling, 2023 ONCA 754
• Clost v. Rennie, 2023 ONSC 6998
• Sankreacha v. Cameron J. and Beach Sales Ltd., 2018 ONSC 7216
• French v. Dr. S., 2017 ONSC 5490
• Mendes v. Blaisdale Montessori School, 2014 ONCA 821 (CanLII)