About

Georgialee Lang has practiced as a trial and appellate lawyer in Vancouver, Canada for 30 years. She has been blessed with great clients, wonderful colleagues and exceptional cases. Her website is at georgialeelang.com. Her present focus is on appeal work, litigation strategy, arbitration, mediation and writing legal and political pieces. Her accomplishments include:

Regular contributor to Canliiconnects.org

Family Law Coordinator for Trial Lawyer’s of British Columbia

Expert witness in British Columbia Supreme Court and Courts in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong

Invited Fellow of the International Academy of Family Law Lawyers

Awarded Lexpert Zenith Award for Leading Women Lawyers September 2013. One of 60 Canadian women lawyers honoured in Toronto

Appeared as counsel for intervenor Evangelical Fellowship of Canada in AG v. Bedford Supreme Court of Canada (Prostitution case) June 2013

Appeared as counsel for 8 fathers seeking access to their children from Bountiful BC’s polygamous community

Awarded 2012 Canadian Bar Association Community Service Award for pro bono work

Named by “Best Lawyers in Canada” and “Lexpert” as a leading lawyer in Canada

Regular contributor to “Huffington Post” and “Postmedia”

Law blog “lawdiva.wordpress.com” awarded Best Canadian Legal Blog 2010 by the Canadian Blog Awards

Law blog nominated in Canadian Weblog Awards for Best New Blog and Best Written Blog

Named by Next Level Leadership as a Leading Woman in the business, entrepreneur and professional category

Adjunct Law Professor in the University of British Columbia Law School

Counsel in three Supreme Court of Canada cases: Stein v. Stein 2008 Rick v. Brandsema 2009 and Bedford v. AG Canada

Member of the Supreme Court of Canada’s Advocacy Institute

Member of Attorney-General’s Family Law Act Advisory Group

Family Law Coordinator for Trial Lawyers of BC

Founding member of the Family Law Arbitrators Group

Member of the Family Law Advocates Group

Participant in Knowledge Network educational video- Unrepresented Litigants and Family Law

Participant in National Judge’s Conference video- Mock Trial Evidence

Member of Advisory Committee Family Relations Act Reform Project (Social Planning and Research Council)

Fellowship in the Chartered Institute of Arbitration, United Kingdom

Executive board member of Leading Women for Shared Parenting

Executive board member of the North American branch of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators UK

Prolific writer, media commentator for a variety of legal publications, including Lawyer’s Weekly, Canlii Connects, Lexis Nexis, The Advocate, Continuing Legal Education, Trial Lawyers of BC, Pacific Business and Law Institute, Huffington Post, Postmedia, Toronto Star, Desert Sun (Calif) and keynote speaker

Decades of public service including leadership positions in the Canadian Bar Association, the Lawyer’s Benevolent Fund, the Legal Services Society, Continuing Legal Education, UBC Law Alumni Association, Alpha in the Workplace, Broadway Lodge, Regent College, Broadway Church and other organizations;

Founder of a Free Legal Clinic operated for Cityreach Society in Vancouver

Pro Bono Law Coordinator for the British Columbia Court of Appeal;

Mentor to dozens of law students and young lawyers.

For fun she sings, acts, writes, rides motorcycles, skis, travels and cooks gourmet meals for Doug. (she also plays with her puppy Phoenix)

Georgialee Lang BA JD FCIArb
glang@georgialeelang.com
georgialeelang.com