Called to the Bar: 2014
Cassandra has extensive experience in civil litigation across a broad range of practice areas and industries, successfully representing clients at all levels of Court in Alberta. Her practice areas include commercial disputes (domestic and international), contractual disputes, fraudulent conveyance & enforcement claims, property litigation, professional negligence, landlord-tenancy disputes, class actions, defamation and employment.
Cassandra focuses on practical solutions to her clients’ needs and has considerable courtroom experience, which includes acting as lead counsel for trial at the Court of King’s Bench and the Court of Appeal. She has been involved in several injunctive matters, including successfully obtaining a freezing order/mareva injunction, a rare and extraordinary relief granted by the Court in emergency circumstances. She has also successfully represented clients before administrative bodies, beginning from the initial complaint and investigation, through the tribunal appeals and ultimately judicial review.
Cassandra has been involved in large-scale, complex commercial litigation and arbitrations. Such work has included an arbitral dispute wherein a $80-million arbitration award was granted in favour of the client, and an oil & gas arbitration involving complex issues of contract interpretation. She was also part of team representing an international energy company in a dispute regarding a right of first refusal clause in a complex matrix of oil and gas agreements. This matter involved pursuing relief in respect of a billion-dollar oil sands transaction.
Cassandra has been involved in a number of high-profile matters. Most notably, she is currently co-counsel in a class action arising from the sexual exploitation and assault of numerous class members spanning over nearly 24 years. The action addresses 3 decades of luring, grooming, sexual assaults and sexual abuse by a volunteer and employee of the defendants. The affected class members were students of and performers with The Young Canadians, a prestige performing arts facility operated by the Stampede Defendants. This case received extensive local and national press coverage. Other high profile matters have included successfully defending a claim against a client in a case which engaged allegations under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms and a consideration of the existing governing legislation in Alberta.
Cassandra was born and raised in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Cassandra obtained her J.D. from the University of Calgary Law School, where she achieved Dean’s List standing. Prior to law school, Cassandra obtained her BA (with distinction) in philosophy and psychology from the University of Alberta and worked as a rail traffic controller.
In her spare time, she enjoys travelling, the mountains and various outdoor activities, and is an avid dog lover.
Updated April 2024
