Based in Kelowna and Vancouver, she also joins commercial litigation practice
Lawson Lundell LLP has announced the appointment of Taylor-Marie Young as a new partner in the firm’s Kelowna and Vancouver offices and as a member of the firm’s commercial litigation and trusts, estates, and incapacity disputes groups.
“I am joining a group of forward-thinking and talented colleagues — this next chapter is bright indeed,” Young said in a news release from the firm.
She expressed eagerness to help Lawson Lundell grow its litigation practice in Kelowna, the greater Okanagan, and the Interior.
Young’s experience has covered contractual disputes, shareholder and corporate conflicts, fraud claims, debtor-creditor matters, estate and trust litigation, employment disputes, and the defence of lawyers and other professionals.
She welcomed the additional resources and support she could offer her clients upon joining Lawson Lundell.
“Two things in particular drew me to the firm: its industry staying power and its sterling reputation for excellence and integrity,” Young said in the news release. “Both align with my professional goals and my personal values.”
More on Young
Young’s LinkedIn profile and the firm’s news release provided more information regarding her professional experience, organizational activities, and educational background.
She worked at Rush Ihas Hardwick LLP for around a decade. At that firm, she served as a partner beginning in January 2022, and as an associate from May 2016 to December 2021.
Before that, Young remained with Guild Yule LLP in Vancouver for a little over three years. At that firm, she worked as an associate from August 2015 to May 2016. In this role, she handled insurance defence and general litigation matters.
Specifically, she helped municipalities, educational institutions, health authorities, businesses, and professionals defend against claims primarily relating to occupier liability, professional liability, personal injury, human rights, employment, and medical malpractice.
Before her admission to the BC bar in September 2015, Young served as an articled student at Guild Yule from May 2013.
She has frequently contributed to professional development programs, seminars, and publications, including for the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia and its Annual Review of Law & Practice.
Young was a legal researcher at the Thompson Rivers University Faculty of Law from May 2012 to September 2012, and a graduate research assistant at the University of Victoria from January 2010 to September 2011.
She obtained her JD from Thompson Rivers University in 2014, her MA in linguistics from the University of Victoria in 2011, and her bachelor’s degree in journalism from Thompson Rivers in 2007.
