Brenda M. Gash

Brenda Gash is a senior associate with the firm. She graduated from the University of Alberta in 1978 and was called to the Alberta Bar in 1979. Ms. Gash practiced law in Lethbridge, Alberta for 17 years and subsequently moved to British Columbia, where she was called to the Bar in 1999.

Her practice focus is in child protection and she is also experienced in family law mediation. Ms. Gash has completed a course in collaborative law and restricts her family practice to the collaborative approach.

Ms. Gash taught social welfare law as a sessional lecturer at the University of Calgary, Lethbridge campus between 1986 and 1994. She also taught in the political science department at the University of Lethbridge between 1985 and 1994. Ms. Gash also sat for three terms as a member of the Federal Human Rights Commission Tribunal, hearing cases across Canada.

She has been an instructor and contributor to Continuing Legal Education Society courses and course materials in both Alberta and British Columbia in the areas of family law and child protection practice. In 1995 Ms. Gash taught at the University of Southern Australia in the Practical Legal Training course for the School of Law, Adelaide, in the areas of negotiating, ethics and mediation.

Ms. Gash has contributed to many volunteer organizations in the community, completed a marathon and has personal interests in the areas of Japanese gardening, calligraphy, ikebana and woodworking.

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