Yun Li-Reilly

Yun is a partner in the litigation and family departments and a trial lawyer whose practice includes matters relating to corporate, commercial, civil, family, estate, strata and tenancy disputes. Yun has represented clients before the B.C. Securities Commission and various professional disciplinary bodies. Yun has acted for individuals, corporations, and institutional clients before all levels of court in British Columbia, the Supreme Court of Canada, and various administrative tribunals.

Yun has law degrees from Harvard Law School and the University of British Columbia, as well as a background in Psychology and Neuroscience. Yun has served as a Judicial Law Clerk to Madam Justice Newbury and Mr. Justice Lowry of the British Columbia Court of Appeal, and has worked as the Court of Appeal’s consultant to its Civil Rule Reform Project. Yun co-authors the British Columbia Annual Practice, a procedural text used broadly by the judiciary and lawyers, with Madam Justice Janice Dillon. Yun is a law lecturer at Simon Fraser University.

Yun is the legal member of the UBC Women’s and Children’s Research Ethics Board, and a member of the Allard Law School Alumni Board of Directors. She was recently profiled in the 75th Anniversary Special Edition of the Allard School of Law Alumni Magazine, which featured an Allard graduate from each of the last 6 decades. Yun is a member of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association, and a member of the Canadian Federation of Asian Lawyers. Yun is an avid runner who has competed in the Boston and Vancouver Marathons.

Yun was born in China and raised in New Zealand. Yun is fluent in Mandarin.