Ludmila Herbst KC

Advocacy & Litigation

Class Actions

Tax Litigation and Dispute Resolution

Administrative & Regulatory Law

Arbitration; Appellate Advocacy

Corporate & Commercial Litigation

Shareholder Disputes and Securities Litigation

Transportation

Government & Public Municipal Sector

Oil & Gas

Utilities

Called to the British Columbia Bar, 1999

Senior Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America

Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers

Member of the Law Society of British Columbia

Member of the Canadian Bar Association

Member of the Western Canada Commercial Arbitration Society

Member of the Advocates’ Society

Member and former executive member of the Canadian Property Tax Association-BC Branch

Member of Attorney General of BC’s Arbitration Advisory Group, advising on reforms to arbitration legislation in BC

Benchmark Canada Litigation Star (2025-2026)

Lexpert Leading Lawyers in Canada (2026)

The Best Lawyers in Canada (2026)

Chambers Canada Ranked Lawyer (2026)

Lexpert Leading Litigation Lawyers (2025)

Lexpert Leading Energy Lawyers (2025)

Benchmark Canada Top 100 Women in Litigation (2025)

Lexpert Leading Litigation Lawyers (2024)

The Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” in Energy Regulatory Law (2023)

Lexpert Leading Infrastructure Lawyers (2021)

Martindale-Hubbell Ranking (AV)

Queen’s Counsel, now King’s Counsel (2015)

Ludmila is an experienced litigator. For 25 years, she has acted for clients in corporate, commercial, regulatory and public law matters dealing with shareholder and other corporate disputes, contractual issues, real property (including property tax), energy regulation, anti-money laundering issues and many others.

She has represented clients before all trial and appellate courts in British Columbia as well as the Federal Court and the Supreme Court of Canada. Ludmila also often argues cases before arbitrators and administrative tribunals, including the British Columbia Utilities Commission and the Property Assessment Appeal Board. She acted for a participant in the Cullen Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia.

Ludmila frequently chairs and presents at conferences and publishes on issues pertaining to her practice. She was featured in the February 2023 “Spotlight” of the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia for her longstanding contributions to legal education. She is one of the two co-authors of Commercial Arbitration in Canada: Domestic and International Arbitrations, a leading text on arbitration law that has been cited by trial and appellate courts across Canada. She is also the assistant editor of, and a regular contributor to, the Advocate, a legal journal circulated to all lawyers in British Columbia with a readership throughout the Commonwealth.

Ludmila has long been recognized as a leading lawyer in Canada by publications including Benchmark Litigation, Chambers Canada, Best Lawyers and Lexpert.