Emily joined NST’s partnership in 2025, having first joined the firm as a law student and then returned for her articles and as an associate. Prior to her call to the bar, Emily clerked at the British Columbia Court of Appeal.
Emily is a strong advocate and is experienced before all levels of court in British Columbia, including as lead counsel in trials before the Provincial Court and Supreme Court. She brings tenacity, understanding, and perceptive intelligence to her work on behalf of her clients. Emily is passionate about guiding clients through challenging circumstances while being responsive to their needs and goals.
Emily maintains both a commercial and civil litigation practice and an estates and trusts litigation practice. In her trusts and estates practice, she acts on a range of issues facing executors, trustees, and beneficiaries, including property transfer disputes, wills variation, validity issues, and administration and accounting issues. Her commercial and civil practice includes contractual disputes, shareholder and partnership disputes, defending claims of professional negligence, and disputes concerning property. She also has administrative law experience responding to regulatory proceedings in the forestry sector.
Emily frequently works with and has been mentored by NST’s leading litigators, Irwin Nathanson K.C., Stephen Schachter K.C., James C. MacInnis K.C., Karen L. Carteri, K.C., Mark S. Oulton, K.C., and Julia K. Lockhart.
She is a co‑author of “Chapter 2: Pleadings in a Civil Case” of CLE BC’s British Columbia Civil Trial Handbook since 2021 and co‑author of “Rule 12” in the CanLII Guide to BC Litigation since 2020. She has contributed as an author and presenter for continuing professional development programming and provides free legal services through Access Pro Bono’s legal clinic program.
Emily is an associate member of the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners and a member of The Advocates Club.
