About Lisa

Lisa Newby is a family and estates lawyer at YLaw's Vancouver office with more than 30 years of call to the bar, over a decade of which has focused exclusively on family law. She now works primarily as a parenting coordinator, arbitrator, and mediator, after eight years as a stay-at-home parent before returning to family law practice in 2014. She holds an LL.B. from the University of British Columbia (1993) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Political Science from McGill University (1990), and was called to the bar in British Columbia in 1994. She is accredited by the Law Society of British Columbia as a Family Law Mediator, Family Law Arbitrator, and Parenting Coordinator, and is a collaborative lawyer with Collaborative Divorce Vancouver. She speaks English and French fluently, with conversational Spanish.

Education & credentials

Law school
University of British Columbia
Undergraduate
McGill University, Bachelor of Arts (Honours), Political Science, 1990

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