Alex Sayn-Wittgenstein

About Alex

Alex Sayn-Wittgenstein is a partner at Murphy Battista LLP who has worked primarily as a medical malpractice lawyer for over 25 years. His early years in practice included acting for health care defendants, giving him insight into how medical providers defend cases; since 2012 he has used that knowledge exclusively for people harmed by substandard health care and their families. His work includes acting for adults and children who suffered catastrophic brain injuries or spinal cord injuries, with court-approved awards exceeding $12 million in a sepsis case and $14 million in a labour and delivery case. He also acted on behalf of more than a hundred dental patients against one dentist over systemically faulty restoration work. Alex has practiced at all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and has been an instructor at the Peter A. Allard School of Law and a speaker for Continuing Legal Education of British Columbia and the Trial Lawyers of BC. He earned his LLB from the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC in 1994 and a B.Sc. from McGill University in 1991, and was called to the British Columbia bar in 1995.

Education & credentials

Law school

University of British Columbia (Peter A. Allard School of Law)

Undergraduate

McGill University, B.Sc., 1991