Canada
Practice Areas
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
Career
Called to the British Columbia Bar, 1999
Professional Memberships
Member of the 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
Member of the Litigation Counsel of America’s Trial Law Institute and Diversity Law Institute
Publications
The Best Lawyers in Canada (2025)
Chambers Canada Ranked Lawyer (2024)
Benchmark Canada Litigation Star (2024)
Benchmark Canada Top 100 Women in Litigation (2024)
Lexpert Leading Lawyers in Canada (2024)
The Best Lawyers “Lawyer of the Year” in Energy Regulatory Law (2023)
Lexpert Leading Energy Lawyers (2023)
Lexpert Leading Litigation Lawyers (2023)
Lexpert Leading Infrastructure Lawyers (2021)
Martindale-Hubbell Ranking (AV)
Queen’s Counsel, now King’s Counsel (2015)
Senior Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers
Personal
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.
