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Julie was a strong advocate and was often persuasive. The judge part was
something else: Julie has always been regarded by family, friends and colleagues
as even-keeled, hardworking, intelligent, rational and—critically—
able to appreciate people for who they are, to understand things from their
perspective and to communicate meaningfully with them. She has also
always been very decisive.
Julie summered with Bull Housser & Tupper in 1992. She completed full
articles with Harper Grey and was called to the B.C. bar in 1994. She carried
on as an associate with Harper Grey until 1996, when she moved to Robertson
Downe and Mullally for a brief stint before joining Skorah Doyle
Khanna, a firm started by three notable Harper Grey alumni. In 2004, she
moved to Lindsay Kenney, where she worked closely with Rick Lindsay,
Q.C., and Jan Lindsay, Q.C. In 2008, she joined Guild Yule, not long after
Mark Skorah, Q.C., and Jim Doyle had joined. Julie was a partner with
Guild Yule from 2011 until her judicial appointment. Her practice focused
on professional negligence and regulatory matters, complex personal injury
claims and insurance coverage disputes. In 2014, she taught her first of
many insurance law classes at UBC. She was so active in CLE that in 2016,
she was recognized as one of the most prolific volunteers over the previous
20 years.
Julie was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2018. She was elected as a
bencher for Vancouver County for 2020, after serving as a non-bencher
member on the Complainants’ Review Committee from 2014 and on the Discipline
Committee from 2018. She was a longtime co-author of the insurance
chapter for the CLEBC Annual Review of Law & Practice and contributing
author of the annual British Columbia Motor Vehicle Accident Claims Practice
Manual. Before her appointment, she had served as chair of the CBABC Advisory
Committee to the Judicial Council regarding the appointment of
Provincial Court judges, a committee she first joined as a member in 2013.
As mentioned, family is very important to the Lambs. As a partner at
Guild Yule, Julie treated the firm as family and saw the partnership as a
marriage. However, the most important family members are her own: her
husband, Dan; her children, Matthew, Megan and Liam; and Dan’s son,
Hunter. The children have been a constant source of inspiration. All four of
them are kind, funny, thoughtful and independent people, and Julie is justifiably
proud of them. For his part, Dan is a calm and steady partner, a reliable
source of joy and fun, and never one to complain when asked to
retrieve something from a high shelf.
In August 2019, Julie and Dan became proud East Vancouverites. They
live in a classic 1927-built home with their dogs, Ruby and Lola—or, more