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Caroline P. Lee Q.C.
Partner

(403) 750-1134
lee@dbblaw.com

Caroline is a senior family law practitioner specializing in family law and alternative dispute resolution including collaborative family law, mediation and arbitration. Caroline joined the firm in 1989 with a strongly-established background in all aspects of family law. She became a partner in 1994 and was managing partner of the firm for six years. She was appointed Queen's Counsel in 2004.

Caroline has been involved as a family law teacher and lecturer with the Legal Education Society of Alberta and the Faculty of Law at the University of Calgary and has spoken at the Law Society of Alberta's Bar Admission (CPLED) Course and the National Family Law Program, sponsored by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada and the Canadian Bar Association.

She was on the Board of Directors of the Association of Collaborative Family Lawyers until 2003. She is a member of the Canadian Bar Association and former chair of the Canadian Bar Association Alberta Branch - Family Law Section (South).

Caroline has extended her dedication as a family law practitioner through volunteer work at the Calgary Women's Emergency Shelter, Children's Shelter, Calgary Sexual Assault Centre, and Y.W.C.A.. She was also a founding member of The Missing Children's Association.

Caroline's professional accomplishments were recognized by being selected to be included in the first and second editions of "The Best Lawyers in Canada" (2006 & 2008 and all subsequent editions) and as a leading practitioner in family law by the L'Expert Directory since 2005.

Law Practice

• Family Law
• Mediation and Arbitration
  

 

Called to Bar

• Alberta - 1983

 

Education

• University of Calgary, LL.B., 1982
• Queen's University, BA (Honours), 1979

 

Awards/Recognition

• Queen's Counsel, 2004
• Named in the Best Lawyers in Canada (2006, 2008, 2009 & 2010) in the area of Family Law

 

Memberships

• Association of Collaborative Family Lawyers
• Canadian Bar Association
  

 

Publications

• Co-Authored "Alberta Practice and Procedure Commentary for the Canadian Family Law Guide (CFAM)"

 

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