Joan M. Young

Joan Young heads McMillan’s litigation team in BC. She is a highly skilled courtroom advocate with an impressive list of trials and appeals under her belt. She is McMillan’s leading class action lawyer in BC with a practice concentrated on complex commercial litigation and regulatory regimes.  Recognized for her skilled and effective handling of high-stakes litigation, some of her recent work defending class proceedings has involved the following: search ads, air bag sensor controls, fuel pumps, electric vehicle car batteries, device manufacturers privacy breach, opioids, roll-on/roll-off car carriers, capacitors, forged steel, “Bridgemark” securities secondary market claim, wire harness, spark plugs, ECU, ignition coils, Gmail, diesel engine emissions defeat device, optical disk drives, and ramen noodles. She acted as counsel in one of Lexpert’s “Top 10 Cases of 2019-2020,” representing the appellant before the Supreme Court of Canada in the leading case on certification standards in antitrust class actions (Pioneer Corp. v. Godfrey). She is recognized by peers and various legal directories as a leading expert and is described by clients as someone who “consistently exceeds expectations,” is very “thorough and sharp,” and has a “notable number of fans among clients.”