Kerri Priddle
About Kerri
Expertise
Kerri is a planner and a problem solver: she advises individuals and corporate clients on litigation matters such as personal injury, medical and dental malpractice, employment, estate disputes, human rights breaches and defamation as well as other general litigation matters such as contract disputes. She brings a depth of experience to her legal practice, including:
- Acting as trial counsel in complex personal injury matters, dealing with traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, soft tissue and orthopaedic injuries, catastrophic losses, medical and employment losses.
- Providing strategic advice regarding employment disputes and/or by providing advice to employers as to the appropriate steps required to avoid legal disputes.
- Advising unhappy beneficiaries who may have been wrongfully left out of an estate or given an inappropriate share of an estate.
- Advocating for clients in mediations and negotiations.
- Additionally, Kerri regularly participates and presents in seminars relating to tactical issues in litigation, such as trial strategies, expert medical opinion evidence, cross-examination techniques and the preparation of witnesses.
Associations
Kerri is a current member of the Law Society of British Columbia, the Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia, the American Association of Justice (Canadian Caucus) and the Kamloops Bar Association. She regularly speaks at various legal conferences and creates legal information blogs on her website, following a decade of articles in the Connector and a local Radio NL legal information spot.
From 2019 – 2022, Kerri was named the Chair of the Royal Inland Hospital Foundation Board and had volunteered her time to this great cause for over 8 years making an impact in her community buy helping raise over 30 million dollars to equip the new Phil and Jennie Gaglardi Hospital Tower. She also acts as a Sessional Professor of Legal Ethics at Thompson Rivers University in the Faculty of Law.
