We are pleased to welcome five new CLEBC Board Directors beginning September 1, 2019. Several are current CLEBC contributors and we greatly appreciate their continued support in this new capacity.
- Dr. Cristie Ford is Associate Dean, Research and the Legal Profession, and a Professor of Law at UBC Allard School of Law. Dr. Ford’s research focuses on regulatory theory as it relates to international,
US, and Canadian financial and securities regulation.
- Scott Morishita is associate counsel at Rice Harbut Elliott LLP. Scott is an elected member of the CBABC Provincial Council and recently appointed to the CBABC Access to Justice Committee. He is on the Board of RainCity Housing and Support Society, and has volunteered with the Lawyers Assistance Program of BC for over 10 years.
- Mary-Jane Wilson practises
in the areas of wills, estates, estate planning, and real estate law at Wilson Rasmussen LLP. She has mentored young women lawyers as part of the formal mentoring program of the CBABC Women Lawyers Forum.
- Greg Palm is a senior litigation lawyer at Hamilton Duncan. He is an active member of the CBABC where he is a two-term member of the Provincial Council, the current chair of the Professional Issues Committee, and a member of the BarTalk Editorial Board.
- Amanda Krishan’s practice focuses on immigration law and wills and estates. In 2019, Amanda and her partner opened VK Law Corporation to provide legal services to Kimberley and the East Kootenays.