Lawyer Profile
Ludmila B. Herbst
Vancouver, British Columbia
Overview
University of British Columbia (B.A., Pol. Sci. with International Relations, Hons., 1994)
Ludmila is an experienced litigator. For more than 25 years, she has acted for clients in corporate, commercial, regulatory and public law matters including shareholder and other corporate disputes, contractual issues, class actions, real property (including property tax) and energy regulation. She has repeatedly been recognized as a leading litigator in Canada by publications including Benchmark, Chambers Canada, Best Lawyers and Lexpert; she was appointed as Queen’s Counsel (now King’s Counsel) in 2015; she is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers; and she is a senior fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America.
She has represented clients before all trial and appellate courts in British Columbia as well as the Federal Court and the Supreme Court of Canada. In addition, she often argues cases before arbitrators and administrative tribunals, including the British Columbia Utilities Commission, the Property Assessment Appeal Board, and the Cullen Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia. She also sits as an arbitrator.
Ludmila frequently chairs and presents at continuing professional development conferences and publishes on issues pertaining to her practice. She is one of the two co-authors of Commercial Arbitration in Canada: Domestic and International Arbitrations, a leading text on arbitration law that has been cited many times by trial and appellate courts across Canada. She is also the assistant editor of, and a regular contributor to, the Advocate, a legal journal circulated to all lawyers in British Columbia with a readership throughout the Commonwealth.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1999 (BC); 2015 (BC)