Being a lawyer while staying true to you: a conversation with Justice Susan Griffin of the BC Court of Appeal

Katrina Bahnam, OUTLaw's VP Communications this year, will moderate a 45-minute discussion with Justice Susan Griffin and a 15-minute audience Q&A period.

Justice Susan Griffin is a member of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia as well as the Court of Appeal of Yukon, following ten years as a trial judge on the Supreme Court of British Columbia. After growing up in an Ontario village she pursued her legal education at the University of Toronto before heading west to Vancouver, a city she chose for articling as it had the most temperate climate in Canada. Six years later, Justice Griffin and her partner decided to each take time out from work to obtain graduate degrees and travelled overseas together where they studied some of the time. It worked out well, with Justice Griffin obtaining a Masters of Law degree from LSE, University of London, UK and her partner obtaining her PhD in science. Discovering that Britain felt draftier than Vancouver, they returned to Vancouver and carried on their careers from there, occasionally escaping from the work by hiking in the summer and skiing in the winter and lots of travel around the world. Before her judicial appointment, Justice Griffin practiced a wide variety of civil litigation in Vancouver, first as a member of a litigation boutique and then as a member of a national law firm, and was appointed King’s Counsel. She is co-author of a leading text on civil procedure in BC.

L'événement se déroulera uniquement en anglais / The event will take place in English only