Overview

Lillian Pan's practice is primarily focused on commercial litigation, including the areas of business litigation, securities, product liability, energy and employment litigation. She has appeared before many levels of court, including the Alberta Court of King's Bench, the Alberta Court of Appeal, the Ontario Court of Appeal, the Ontario Superior Court and the Federal Court; as well as the Alberta Securities Commission and the Ontario Securities Commission.
Lillian is a passionate mentor and a strong advocate for diversity. She is a senior advisor and mentor to the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers (FACL) since 2014, and an instructor in the trial advocacy course at the University of Calgary Law School.  She has joined the Board of The Advocates' Society for a four-year term starting in mid-2019.  In November 2019, Lillian was awarded the Leadership in the Profession & Private Practice Award in the 9th Annual WILL Awards, which is described as a lawyer who has shown extraordinary leading in a number of areas  namely mentoring of law students and junior lawyers, demonstrated leadership in law and diversity initiatives, and a commitment to being a positive role model for other lawyers. Additionally, she has been a frequent speaker, panelist and mentor including:
Board Member and Vice Chair of Calgary Chinatown BIA
Moderator and Speaker – The Advocate's Society, Litigating from Home: Remote Examinations Webinar held on May 29, 2020.
Asian Professional Network of Calgary - Resilience and Finding Your Voice, together with Ray Ho held on May 19, 2020;
Workshop Speaker, Law Needs Feminism Because, held on March 7, 2020;
Breakfast Seminar - Co-presenter on Privilege Law Going into 2020 (for clients), held on February 27, 2020;
Presentation for Scarboro Community Association on Caveats and Restrictive Covenants – February 10, 2020;
Women's Entrepreneur delegation for CCBC conference in Shanghai, November 2019
Asian Professional Network of Calgary – Failing Successfully Panel, November 29, 2018 – event held at Bow Valley College;
FACL Women's Speakers Event of January 24, 2019 speaking about the issues faced by racialized female lawyers together with (now Justice) Johanna C. Price (formerly of Peacock Linder Halt & Mack LLP) and Desiree Tam;
Women in Law Dean's Speaker Series at the University of Alberta, together with Christy Lee held on January 8, 2019;
Mentor to third year law students at University of Calgary Faculty of Law through the mentoring program at FACL since 2014;
Co-chair with Douglas A. McGillivray, Q.C. of Burnet Duckworth & Palmer LLP of The Resilient Litigator, a program put on by The Advocates' Society on July 19, 2019;
Panel member of the Cross-Examination Skills workshop put on by The Advocates' Society on August 13, 2019;
Principal to articling students at Dentons, 2019 – present;
Panelist at Canadian Bar Association/ University of Calgary Faculty of Law Conference on Youth Leaders in Law held on November 2, 2019,
Panelist for Strategic Capability Network Calgary Chapter on Women in Leadership and Looking to the Future on Gender Issues in the Workplace on January 28, 2020.These are examples of the many types of events/venues by which Lillian had tried to reach out, particularly to racialized female lawyers, to talk about mentoring, and diversity and inclusion issues.  Lillian is also part of Denton's Women LEAD, heads Denton's Calgary Diversity & Inclusion group, and Pro Bono group.

Practice Areas

• Administrative Law
• Natural Resources & Energy
• Civil Litigation
• Securities
• Labour Law

Bar Information

Called to the bar: 1989 (ON); 2000 (AB); 2013 (AB)