Alyssa's Biography
Alyssa graduated from the University of Alberta with a Bachelor of Science in Honours Environmental Biology and the University of Victoria Faculty of Law. She summered and articled with Young, Anderson and then joined the firm as an associate after her call to the bar in August 2004. Before attending law school, Alyssa worked in forest research for the University of Alberta and the Canadian Forest Service. She maintained a strong environmental interest at law school being actively involved and holding an executive position with the University of Victoria Environmental Law Centre.
Alyssa has spoken as a guest lecturer at seminars and courses on local government law and planning law put on by Simon Fraser University and Capilano University. She has also spoken as a guest lecturer at the UBC Faculty of Law in municipal law and the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning in planning and land use law. In March 2011, she spoke at the Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute at the Sturm College of Law in Denver, Colorado on the topic “Conditioning Development on Water and Energy Conservation”.
Alyssa is co-chair of the Canadian Bar Association B.C. Environmental Law Subsection. She has co-authored a paper on local government drinking water liability for the Pacific Business and Law Institute and a paper on municipal pesticide regulation for the International Municipal Lawyers Association. She has also authored and presented papers for the Continuing Legal Education Society of B.C and updates the chapter on ‘Development Rights’ in the Continuing Legal Education Society’s Real Estate Development Practice Manual.
Alyssa has a passion for traveling, spending her last semester of law school on exchange to New Zealand. In her spare time, she is an avid surfer, snowboarder and hiker.