In between her law degree and LLM, she worked as a tax lawyer with the firm Stikeman Elliott.
[1] She then became a professor of law at McGill University, where she was a recipient of the 3M Teaching Fellowship.
[4] Her research focus is on tax law,[5] and she has also been an advocate for university community inclusiveness.
[11] In 2016 Brooks was brought in by the Revenue Minister of the Government of Canada to act as an independent reviewer of accused tax malfeasance of KPMG advisors and the handling of the file by the Canada Revenue Agency.
Following her review, she was appointed as the vice chair of the agency's offshore advisory committee.