Biography
Olena Gavrilova joins Dolden from another boutique insurance defence firm in Vancouver, where her practice focused on ICBC defence, personal injury, and lawyers indemnity claims. Olena’s previous practice areas include civil and commercial litigation and family and estate matters.
Olena has a broad range of litigation experience and has conducted judge-alone and jury trials in the BC Supreme Court. She regularly appears at all levels of Court in British Columbia.
Outside of work, Olena is an active member of her community and is on the Board of Directors of the Richmond Food Bank Society. She coaches bocce for the BC Special Olympics in Richmond each summer. In the past, she was a member of the Executive of the Women Lawyers Forum, a section of the BC Canadian Bar Association as well as a volunteer with the Westcoast LEAF (Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund).
REPORTED DECISIONS
Campbell v. WCAT, 2023 BCCA 245
Campbell v. WCAT, 2022 BCSC 862
Mundell v. Cherry et al., 2021 BCSC 1483
McInnes v. Lenz, 2018 BCSC 1727
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS
Canadian Bar Association of BC
BAR ADMISSIONS
British Columbia Bar, September 2013
EDUCATION
Juris Doctor, Queen’s University, 2012
Bachelor of Arts (International Relations), University of British Columbia, 2009
