Lisa Vogt is a partner in the Vancouver office, National Practice Group Leader of the Real Property and Planning Group and Chair of our National Diversity Committee.
Ms. Vogt's practice involves extensive work with real estate developers and focuses on commercial land acquisitions and dispositions, land and community developments, resort developments and marketing land.
Her recent experience includes:
· structuring and preparing the legal documentation for multi-use urban projects, planned residential communities and resort developments;
· negotiating leases for commercial developments; and
· preparing disclosure statements and marketing materials for resort quarter share interests.
Ms. Vogt appears in the 2012 edition of The Best Lawyers in Canada in the area of real estate law and in the 2011 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory, a guide to the leading law firms and practitioners in Canada, as a leading lawyer in the area of property development. She received the University of British Columbia Law Alumni Association's 2011 Award of Distinction and was named as one of Canada's Most Powerful Women by the Women's Executive Network in 2010.
Ms. Vogt is the past Chair of the Vancouver Real Estate Subsection of the Canadian Bar Association, and chaired the group of lawyers who worked with the drafters of the new strata property legislation. She is currently a member of the British Columbia Law Institute's Real Property Reform Project Committee which is proposing substantive reform to real property legislation.
Ms. Vogt is the co-author of McCarthy Tétrault's Annotated British Columbia Strata Property Act, published by Carswell with annual updates.
Ms. Vogt is a strong advocate for women and families, and in particular, women in the legal profession. In 2010, she was recognized by the Women's Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) for her leadership, passion and dedication to advancing women in the legal profession. She is a speaker at leadership conferences on advancing women in law, and is a member of the Law Society's Task Force on the Retention of Women in Law. She also served as a long term board member with the Vancouver Children's Festival and the YWCA (Vancouver), and is currently a member of the Governance Committee of the Minerva Foundation for BC Women.
Ms. Vogt received her BA in 1977, her MA in English Literature in 1979 and her LLB in 1982 from the University of British Columbia. After completing her LLB, Ms. Vogt clerked for the British Columbia Court of Appeal.