Katie Sykes,

Katie is counsel in the Vancouver office of Lawson Lundell. As a member of the firm’s Research & Opinions Group, Katie’s practice focuses on research in a range of areas of law, including real estate and corporate law.

Katie is an associate professor at Thompson Rivers University. She writes and researches on innovation in law, the future of the legal profession, and animal law. She teaches courses including Tort Law, Property Law, and Corporate Governance.

From 2004 to 2010, Katie practiced in New York at Cleary Gottlieb LLP, with a focus on executive compensation and public company corporate governance. From 2003 to 2004, she was clerk to Justice Louis LeBel of the Supreme Court of Canada.

• Thompson Rivers University, Associate Professor
• Law Society of British Columbia, Member
• Law Society of British Columbia Lawyer Development Task Force, Member
• Animal Justice Canada, Board of Advisers