Karen Mirsky New Westminster Criminal Defence Lawyer

Karen Mirsky (she/her) is a criminal defence lawyer with offices on the traditional territories of the Katzie, Kwikwetlem, and Qayqayt First Nations in New Westminster, BC. She represents individuals at all levels of court in British Columbia, working regularly with drug-using and street-involved people, policing agencies, and persons from racialized and Indigenous communities. Her current focus is in the areas of protest law and police misconduct. She is the president of the BC Civil Liberties Association. She has sat as board president of Pivot Legal Society and PACE Society and has long been an advocate for grassroots involvement in the constitutional conversation. Karen worked as an associate editor at the UBC Law Review, having received a BFA (Hons.) in Creative Writing and working as a writer and editor prior to her legal career. Karen also sits on the advisory board of the Canadian Law Review.”