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Pension and Employee Benefits Law
Litigation
Lisa practices exclusively in the area of pension and employee benefits, representing boards of trustees and corporate plan sponsors in both the public and private sector and in a wide variety of industries. Lisa is able to provide her clients with services as both a solicitor and a litigator.
In her solicitor practice Lisa regularly advises a wide variety of boards of trustees and other sponsors of pension and employee benefit plans in respect of the interpretation and amendment of plan texts, the application of the governing legal principles and of provincial and federal legislation. Lisa often prepares formal opinions for her clients advising on proposed courses of action in light of the governing legal principles. Lisa is particularly familiar with the provincial and federal privacy legislation as they apply to pension and employee benefit plans and has drafted privacy policies for a number of her clients.
In terms of her litigation practice Lisa regularly provides support to more senior litigators engaged in complex pension and employee benefit litigation, including class actions. Lisa is also able to provide litigation risk assessment and management services to her clients and in her practice she has appeared before the Court of Appeal, Supreme Court and Provincial Court of British Columbia, and has helped to successfully resist an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada.
Lisa’s litigation experience includes acting for defendant pension plan sponsors in three separate class actions brought by retired members and acting for a defendant board of trustees in an action relating to the reduction of post-retirement group benefits.
Lisa clerked for the Supreme Court of British Columbia before joining Lawson Lundell LLP.
British Columbia (2002)
Simon Fraser University (B.A., 1996)
University of Victoria (LL.B., 2000)
The Law Society of British Columbia, Member
Canadian Bar Association: Pensions and Benefits, Chair
Canadian Pension and Benefits Institute, Member
International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, Member
"Recent Legal Developments Affecting Trusteed Pension and Benefit Plans", co-author with Murray Campbell, February, 2006, Pacific Business & Law Institute Conference.
"Pension Plan Funding Update", co-author with Murray Campbell, April, 2006, Continuing Legal Education.
"Cho v. Telus Communications (B.C.) Inc.: Consequences of Ambiguous Terms in Pension Plans", Pension Planning, 2003, Vol. X, No. 3.
Speaking Engagements
“Pension Division on Marital Breakdown: An Introduction”, February 5, 2003, Canadian Pension and Benefits Institute, Continuing Education Series
“Introduction to Trust Responsibility”, International Foundation of Employee Benefits Plans, September 27, 2007, Vancouver
“Fiduciary Obligations and Liability”, Federated Press, December 20, 2007, Vancouver.
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