Anna Lu

Associate
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Admitted to the Ontario Bar: 2020

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Anna is an advocate specializing in municipal and land use planning law. With a comprehensive understanding of regulatory intricacies, she provides strategic counsel that achieves favourable resolutions for her public and private sector clients, including landowners, developers and municipalities.

Anna is a member of the firm’s Municipal & Land Use Planning Group. She advises clients on a wide range of municipal and land use planning strategies and issues, including property tax appeals and expropriations. Anna’s previous experience as a real estate litigation associate has given her significant expertise in commercial lease disputes, certificates of pending litigation, construction disputes and title issues, as well as acquisitions and dispositions, which equips her to better assist clients within the municipal and land use spaces.

Anna has represented clients at the Ontario Land Tribunal, the Assessment Review Board, the Ontario Superior Court, the Divisional Court and the Landlord and Tenant Board, and in arbitration matters proceeding under the Arbitration Act, 1991.

Other Languages

Mandarin

Professional Involvement

Memberships

  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Ontario Bar Association
  • Urban Land Institute

Community Involvement

  • Board of Directors, Municipal Law Section, Ontario Bar Association, 2025-present
  • Director of Events, Young Women in Law, 2020-2022
  • Student Director, Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers, 2019-2020
  • Community Mediator, Osgoode Hall Mediation Clinic, 2017-2018

Selected Speaking Engagements

Presenter, Real Estate Summit, Law Society of Ontario, April 2024.

Selected Publications

Author, "Stopped Dead in Your Facts: Obtaining Leave to Appeal From the Ontario Land Tribunal," The Digest of Municipal & Planning Law, Issue 22 (2d), October 2024.

Co-Author, Real Estate Summit, Law Society of Ontario, April 2024.

Co-Author, Six-Minute Real Estate Lawyer, Law Society of Ontario, November 2020.

Education

  • JD, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, 2019
  • B.Sc. (Hons.) (Psychology and English), University of Toronto, 2015