Karen R. Zimmer

Karen R. Zimmer is the leader of Alexander Holburn’s Defamation + Publication Risk Management and Information + Privacy Practice Groups. She is also a member of the firm’s Appellant Advisory, Business Disputes, Class Actions, Health, Education, Local Government, and Charities + Non-Profit Practice Groups. Her practice is primarily focused on the following areas of litigation and compliance: libel and slander, privacy, society governance and litigation matters, and commercial litigation.

Karen has extensive experienced in pursuing her clients’ interests in urgent interlocutory applications, short and lengthy trials, appeals, arbitrations, mediations, complaints and inquiries before the privacy commissioners, and judicial reviews. She has appeared at all levels of court in British Columbia, as well as in courts in other provinces and territories.

She was a speaker on several topics at the 2022 Continuing Legal Education Society of BC seminar on Defamation, Privacy and Media Law. Karen is recognized in The Best Lawyers in CanadaTM 2023 for her work in privacy and data security law.

Karen believes in the importance of assessing risk exposure early on in her retainer and providing ongoing risk management advice to ensure that contentious matters do not escalate. Where litigation is to be avoided, she is experienced in working with her clients to achieve a resolution. Karen appreciates that her areas of practice frequently require quick action and responds accordingly.