Kerry Lynn is a partner in the Calgary office of Bishop & McKenzie and was honoured with a King’s Counsel designation in 2024. She oversees a diverse practice with a considered and practical focus on Commercial Litigation, Employment, Immigration, Estate Litigation, and real property disputes. Kerry Lynn also works to support clients expand their families using assisted reproductive technologies and adoption.
She has built a reputation for finding innovative and creative solutions for individuals and families all the way to large institutions. In her employment practice, Kerry Lynn works proactively with employers to ensure they have comprehensive and compliant human resources policies and practices, including terminations, temporary layoffs, and employment matters related to transactions.
Kerry Lynn also focuses on workplace human rights issues, including instances of sexual harassment and assault as well as discrimination. Kerry Lynn brings her thorough and compassionate approach to all parties when dealing with these very difficult circumstances.
Kerry Lynn also assists employers and individuals who want to bring international experience into the Canadian workforce and community.
On top of that, Kerry Lynn has extensive experience resolving property disputes and title matters for property owners and lenders.
In 2010, Kerry Lynn took a leave from her practice and moved to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania to work with a human rights organization on constitutional challenges before the country’s highest court. Following that, she lived in Kabul, Afghanistan as a legal officer with the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan.
Kerry Lynn proudly Chairs the Board of Directors of the National Women’s Legal Action and Education Fund (LEAF), Canada’s leading feminist legal organization advancing gender equality. Kerry Lynn also sits on the Board of the Folk Festival of Calgary. Even with all that on her plate, she still finds time to visit the mountains with her family to enjoy backcountry camping in the summer and snowshoeing and snowboarding in the winter. In 2018, Avenue Magazine named her as one of Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40. Although, we already knew that.