She/Her
E-mail:
ymatsuno@southernlaw.ca
Yuki Matsuno is a lawyer, investigator, and mediator. Currently, Yuki practises workplace law with Southern Butler Price LLP, focusing on workplace investigations, mediations, and assessments. Her background includes working as an associate with the Labour and Employment group at Russell and DuMoulin (now Fasken) and six years in labour relations at the British Columbia Institute of Technology.
Over the course of her career, Yuki has worked with a wide variety of individuals and organizations in the public, private, and non-profit sectors to help people engage with each other at work in a respectful and effective manner. Yuki has also facilitated conversations in work teams in various sectors and industries to help articulate common values and build pathways to better teamwork. Her work is informed by her lived experience as well ongoing learning in the field of trauma, the effects of historical/structural oppression, and intercultural and intergenerational issues.
Yuki trains, coaches, and presents in a variety of subject areas, including mediation, dealing with conflict, and communication skills. She has taught as a sessional at the Peter A. Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia and held appointments as a member of the B.C. Employment Standards Tribunal and the Employment and Assistance Appeal Tribunal and as a Child Protection Mediator.
Yuki is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia and the Canadian Bar Association, British Columbia Branch. She is also a former member of the Civil and Family Rosters of Mediate BC.
Yuki holds a B.A. (Hons.) and an LL.B. from the University of British Columbia. She obtained a Certificate in Conflict Resolution from the Justice Institute of British Columbia and is currently pursuing a Master of Counselling at City University of Seattle in Vancouver.
