| Lawyer Profile: Jennifer Conkie, Q.C.
Her professional goals include providing excellent legal service to a wide variety of clients, and working extensively in volunteer endeavours. She values innovative and creative dispute resolution and has been counsel in many mediations as well as an advocate for her clients in court. Throughout her career, Jennifer has been keenly involved in women's issues and human rights generally, and this is reflected in the cases she has taken on, as well as in much of her volunteer work. Public speaking and public legal education are mainstays of her efforts in these areas, as is her participation in LEAF's legal work and the Canadian Bar Association. She has been an adjunct professor at UBC and a participant in several important initiatives of the Law Society of British Columbia for women in the profession. She balances her work in the law with various artistic pursuits, including playing classical piano and participating in an a writer's group and book club. She was a co-winner of the 2007 Advocate's short story competition. |
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Jennifer Conkie has practised law since 1987. In 1993, after practising commercial and insurance litigation at four Vancouver firms, she began her own firm, Conkie & Company.