Course Chairs
Jennifer J.L. Brun — Harris & Brun Law Corporation, Vancouver
Lyle G. Harris, QC — Harris & Brun Law Corporation, Vancouver
About the Course Chairs
Jennifer Brun joined Harris & Brun in 2016, after practicing with a leading insurance defence firm in Vancouver since 2007. Her practice focuses on civil litigation and professional regulation, with an emphasis on claims arising from professional liability, occupiers' liability, recreational accidents, and motor vehicle accidents. She represents her clients in both litigation and regulatory contexts, before all levels of court in BC and before their respective governing bodies and administrative tribunals. Jennifer's experience includes litigating personal injury matters involving mild and complicated traumatic brain injuries; neurological injuries including spinal cord injuries; significant orthopaedic injuries; psychiatric and psychological injuries, and chronic pain. Her advice is routinely sought on insurance matters in the realms of litigation, coverage, subrogation, audits, policy wordings, and risk management.
Jennifer is a persuasive advocate for her clients, having earned a Bachelor of Science; a Bachelor of Laws, and a Master of Laws specializing in civil litigation and dispute resolution. Further, Jennifer completed a judicial law clerkship at the Supreme Court of BC prior to being called to the bar. Nationally, Jennifer was elected an executive member of the Young Lawyers – Canadian Bar Association (YL-CBA) from 2010-14, serving as National President from 2012-13. Jennifer has remained active in the CBA and more recently was elected in 2017 to the CBA (BC branch) ("CBABC") Provincial Council and Executive Committee, and in 2018 to the position of CBABC Secretary-Treasurer. She is also a member of several other professional associations including the Medical Legal Society of BC.
Jennifer is a regular contributor and presenter for continuing professional development seminars both provincially and nationally, focusing on civil litigation and health law content. She enjoys addressing substantive law and narrow practice issues, such as discovery practice and oral advocacy techniques, as well as other important issues facing our justice system including access to justice, judicial independence, and the self-regulation of our profession. Since 2017, Jennifer has co-authored Discovery Practice in British Columbia, a CLEBC publication, with Lyle G. Harris, QC.
Lyle G. Harris, QC is a partner at his firm Harris & Brun, Vancouver. He was called to the BC bar in 1976, and has regularly acted for plaintiffs and defendants, as well as insurance companies, in personal injury, and insurance cases since that time. He has conducted over 100 trials and appeals in the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal. In 2000–01, Lyle was compensation counsel for Thomas Sophonow in the Manitoba Commission of Inquiry (before Peter deC. Cory, retired Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada) into Mr. Sophonow's 1982 wrongful murder conviction. The inquiry ultimately recommended compensation for Mr. Sophonow in the amount of $2.66 million dollars.
Lyle's well-known book, Discovery Practice in British Columbia, was published by CLEBC in the summer of 1999, and is updated annually. He has been a frequent contributor at seminars offered by CLEBC, Canadian Defence Lawyers, and the Trial Lawyers Association of BC. Lyle was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2009.
Faculty
The Honourable Mr. Justice Paul W. Walker — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Master Ian W. Caldwell — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Jennifer J.L. Brun — Harris & Brun Law Corporation, Vancouver
Ben Colangelo — Rice Harbut Elliott LLP, Vancouver
Lyle G. Harris, QC — Harris & Brun Law Corporation, Vancouver
Erin Haupt – Harris & Brun Law Corporation, Vancouver
Craig McIvor — Preszler Injury Lawyers, Vancouver
Jim McNeney, QC — McNeney McNeney Spieker LLP, Vancouver
Michael Wilhelmson — Harris & Brun Law Corporation, Vancouver
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