1055 West Georgia St, Suite 1500, PO Box 11117, Royal Ctr, Vancouver, BC
Year called to bar: 1991 (BC)
Joan Young heads McMillan’s litigation team in British Columbia. She is a highly skilled courtroom advocate with an impressive list of trials and appeals under her belt and in 2024 was admitted as a Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America. Joan is McMillan’s leading class action lawyer in British Columbia with a practice concentrated on complex commercial litigation & regulatory regimes in competition/antitrust, regulatory compliance, public law, consumer protection, product liability, and privacy. Trusted by the world’s leading companies for her skilled and effective handling of high-stakes litigation, some of her recent work defending class proceedings has involved: Tires, 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. Joan is recognized by peers and various legal directories as a leading litigation expert who “consistently exceeds expectations”, is very “thorough and sharp” and has a “notable number of fans among clients”.
