Lawyers and Staff

Colleen studied municipal and land use planning law while attending UBC Law School and has been working with local governments in British Columbia since her articling days. Called to...

Darroch Campbell is a graduate of the University of Alberta Faculty of Law and has been practicing law for over 20 years.  The completion of a program in labour and...

Ashley operates out of our Alberta office and her practice is focused on land use and development, real property, conveyancing, environmental matters, and drafting legal agreements. Ashley also provides...

Sara has practiced local government law at Lidstone & Company since 2009 and became a partner in the firm in 2020. She is a litigator and provides advice on...

Janae Enns is a registered professional planner and lawyer. She has a bachelor’s degree in geography with a concentration in planning and a master’s degree in community planning. Prior...

Alison is a municipal lawyer licenced in Alberta and British Columbia. She advises and advocates for clients on a wide range of municipal law issues, including land use planning...

Chris advises and assists clients in corporate, real estate, contracting, construction, procurement, expropriation, and other commercial matters. Prior to joining Lidstone & Company, Chris practiced for 17 years in...

Michael has been practising law in British Columbia for over 20 years. Since 2007, he has dedicated his practice to acting for local governments in a solicitor’s role. That...

Alejandra (Ale) Henao is an associate with Lidstone & Company’s Labour, Employment, and Human Rights Group. Ale advises the public and private sectors on a wide range of contractual...

Paul is Associate Counsel at Lidstone & Company. Paul is the head of the law firm’s Litigation Department. He won the Gold Medal in law at the University of...

Ralph is Senior Counsel at Lidstone & Company. He most recently held the position of Corporate Counsel/General Manager Legal and Legislative Services at Metro Vancouver. Prior to his ten...

Charlotte is an associate with our law firm. She graduated from University of Calgary Law School. Previously, she worked in the technology industry as a project manager and coordinator...

Catherine is an associate lawyer at Lidstone & Company. She provides advice, representation, and legal drafting to local governments. She has developing interests in bylaw enforcement, judicial review, finance...

Alex is an associate lawyer at Lidstone & Company. She has developing interests in bylaw review and drafting, environmental law, and aboriginal law. She has a law degree from...

Don Lidstone K.C. is licenced in BC, Alberta, and Yukon. He practices generally in the area of local government law. His municipal law focus is in the areas of...

Mandeep is a seasoned solicitor specializing in property law including land use and land development. He commenced his legal career as a litigation lawyer conducting judge alone and jury...

Chris has retired from the active practice of law but remains available to lead our law firm mentorship program. Chris practiced exclusively on behalf of local governments since 1984....

Mary started her legal career at a Vancouver firm practicing civil litigation, providing advice to schools, health authorities, municipalities, and other institutions on a variety of matters including human...

Lindsay Parcells is the head of our Alberta office and practices municipal law with an interest in land use, real property, corporate, commercial, indigenous relations, and environmental matters. Lindsay...

Anthony was born and raised in the beautiful Bulkley Valley in northern British Columbia. Since 2010, his practice has focused exclusively on providing advice and representation to local governments...

Kitty is an associate lawyer at Lidstone & Company. She acts for local governments on real property, land development, and corporate and commercial matters. She advises clients on buying,...

Rahul Ranade, P.Eng., is Associate Counsel at Lidstone & Company who practices construction, procurement and infrastructure law. He advises clients on various aspects of public infrastructure from project development...

Rachel completed her articles at Lidstone & Company and has practiced local government law since her call to the bar in 2015. She advises local governments in relation to...

Greg Vanstone has devoted the majority of his 37-year legal career to representing local governments and school boards. After being called to the bar in 1984, Greg practiced with...

Matthew acts for local government clients on a wide variety of civil and commercial matters, including disputes involving breaches of contracts and agreements, real estate development and insurance defence....

Andrew is an Associate Counsel with Lidstone and Company and has practiced exclusively in labour, employment and human rights law since his call to the bar in 2012. Andrew...

James’ practice mainly involves litigation and dispute resolution, although he also provides advice on a broad variety of local government matters. James has practised law involving local governments since...

Tom has spent his entire legal career representing local governments as well as individual elected officials, municipal staff, and police officers. He has appeared on behalf of municipalities before...

Nicole Coran is an Articling Student at Lidstone & Company. Nicole completed her law degree at UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law, with a specialization in Law and Social...

Qaasim is an Articling Student at our firm. He completed his law degree at University of Toronto Law School. He is interested in indigenous, environmental, and municipal law. Previously,...

Kathy provides paralegal services for civil litigation and enforcement proceedings at all levels of court in British Columbia. Prior to joining Lidstone & Company, Kathy worked at Murdy &...

Amanda is our Administrative Assistant, she takes care of a variety of receptionist/administrative work provided by the lawyers at Lidstone & Company. Prior to working at the firm Amanda...

Jamie is a Senior Accountant at Lidstone & Company.  She provides accounting support and looks after the accounting department for the company.  She is a CPA, CGA and received...

Linda joined Lidstone & Company in 2023. She oversees all aspects of office operations and administration. Prior to joining Lidstone & Company, Linda worked as an Office Manager for...

Allison Martens is one of our Administrative Assistants at Lidstone & Company. She supports the daily operations of the reception and administration work provided by the lawyers. Before joining...

Abigail is an Intermediate Accountant at Lidstone & Company LLP in Vancouver, where she manages trust and general accounting operations, including billing, in compliance with the Law Society’s standards....

Hannah is an Administrative Assistant for our Alberta office. She handles receptionist and administrative tasks provided by the lawyers at Lidstone & Company. Prior to Joining Lidstone & Company,...

Cindy is a paralegal who assists our lawyers in commercial and residential real estate transactions. She attended Lane Community College in Eugene, Oregon. Cindy is new to Calgary and...

Marcela is one of our Administrative Assistants. She takes care of various inquires from reception duties to administrative work provided by the lawyers at Lidstone & Company. Prior to...