Lisa is the head of the firm’s Research and Opinions Group. She applies her 35 years of experience, for 10 years as a commercial litigator and then as an in-house legal academic, to help clients make considered and reasoned choices on both litigation and transactional issues.
She prepares opinions, pleadings, factums and briefs on a broad range of topics, including contract law, contract interpretation, statutory interpretation, constitutional law, Crown law and conflict of laws.
Lisa has taught conflict of laws (private international law) at two of B.C.’s law schools and follows this area of law as it develops across Canada. This background enables her to strategize with litigation counsel on jurisdictional issues and with transactional lawyers on structuring of jurisdictional and choice of law provisions.
Lisa publishes an annual update on contract law, focusing on recent cases relevant to commercial lawyers and solicitors.
Lisa still appears as co-counsel on appeals to the Supreme Court of Canada and has authored multiple factums for parties appearing in that Court as well as for parties appearing in Courts of Appeal.