Pamela Cyr is still with UBC Law at Allard Hall as Acting Assistant Dean, Students. She is covering a maternity leave and will return to the Career Services Office in January 2013.

Jennifer Lau
E-mail: lau@law.ubc.ca
Phone: 604-827-3604
Fax: 604-822-9486
Office Location:
Allard Hall Room 154
1822 East Mall
Vancouver, BC

Jennifer Lauis the Acting Director of Career Services at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. Jenn obtained her Interdisciplinary B.A. in Chinese Migration and Race Relations from UBC in 2003 and pursued graduate coursework in college student development theory and higher education administration at the University of Maryland - College Park. She graduated with a L.L.B. from UBC in 2008 and was admitted to the British Columbia Bar in 2010. As a non-practicing member of the Law Society of British Columbia, Jenn provides summary legal advice on civil litigation matters at monthly Access Pro Bono clinics at the Gathering Place in Vancouver. During law school, Jenn summered at the UBC UBC Law Students' Legal Advice Program and the Health Employers Association of British Columbia. She then served as a judicial law clerk at the British Columbia Supreme Court in Vancouver before articling and practicing as a civil litigator at Farris, Vaughan, Wills & Murphy LLP in Vancouver, BC.

Jenn's non-legal experience includes stints as an undergraduate student recruiter-advisor, UBC history teaching assistant in Southeast Asia and Los Angeles, teacher at a boarding school in northwestern Massachusetts, and intern at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. She sits on the executive of SOGIC BC, the Canadian Bar Association's queer lawyers section, and the Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers (BC). She previously sat on the Board of the Chinese Canadian Historical Society of B.C. where she co-produced a documentary film on Chinese and First Nations intermarriage in BC and assisted in the development of a summer camp for teenagers on Chinese Canadian history and community involvement. Jenn looks forward to working with UBC Law students and alumni in exploring the many career opportunities made available by a legal education. When not working at the Faculty of Law, Jenn trains in swinging trapeze, aerial silks, and aerial hoop at the Vancouver Circus School and has convinced many a fellow lawyer to let go of their inhibitions and fly.

Chiara Woods
E-mail: woods@law.ubc.ca
Phone: 604-827-5052
Fax: 604-822-9486
Office Location:
Allard Hall Room 155
1822 East Mall
Vancouver, BC

Chiara Woods is the Acting Associate Director of Career Services. Chiara obtained her B.A. in Sociology from Concordia University in Montreal in 2000. After graduation, Chiara traveled and worked abroad before returning to Vancouver where she worked for several local organizations including the Community Legal Assistance Society. She obtained her LL.B. from the University of Manitoba in 2007 and articled at Gowlings in Calgary, where she also completed a secondment to Imperial Oil. After being admitted to the Alberta bar in 2008, Chiara joined Gowlings’ Energy and Business Law groups as an associate. In 2010, Chiara relocated to Vancouver and was admitted to the British Columbia bar. She subsequently practiced at a securities boutique and worked in the Legislative Services Department at a municipality. In her free time, Chiara enjoys volunteering, sking the local slopes and riding her road bike.

Tracy Wachmann
E-mail: wachmann@law.ubc.ca
Phone: 604.822.0112
Fax: 604.822.9486
Office Location:
Allard Hall Room 156
1822 East Mall
Vancouver, BC

Tracy Wachmann is the Public Interest Coordinator at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. Tracy obtained her B.A. in communications from Simon Fraser University in 1990, specializing in environmental risk perception. While at Simon Fraser University, Tracy was employed as the Student Academic Advisor for Interdisciplinary Studies. After realizing that she could affect social change more readily through the field of law, Tracy obtained her LL.B. (J.D.) from U.B.C. in 1994. Following a clerkship with the Supreme Court of British Columbia, Tracy was an articled student and associate with the boutique firm of Roberts & Griffin (now merged with Miller Thomson LLP), where she practiced general civil litigation and administrative law. In 2001, Tracy chose to become a sole practitioner with a focus on administrative law and began to specialize in the area of self-regulating professions. Since this time, Tracy has also worked in the field of public interest environmental law through West Coast Environmental Law and as a consultant to the Provincial Ministry of the Environment (formerly Water Land and Air Protection). Tracy has worked very closely with grassroots public interest community organizations in such diverse areas as land use planning and community support for families. Tracy is the mother of two children and has tailored her career towards maintaining a sustainable work/life balance.
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Lance Patrick Sy - Program Assistant
E-mail: careers@law.ubc.ca (general career-related inquiries)
Phone: 604.822.0846
Fax: 604.822.9486
Allard Hall Room 160
1822 East Mall
Vancouver, BC

Lance P. Sy is the Program Assistant for both the Career Services Office and the Communications department of the Faculty of Law at the University of British Columbia. Lance obtained his B.A. in Economics at UBC in May of 2011. During the final year of his undergraduate studies, Lance served as a Work-Study Administrative Assistant with the Access & Diversity office; he then joined the Faculty of Law shortly after graduation. Prior to his work at UBC, Lance also served as a Sponsorship Intern for the 2010 Vancouver Kidney Walk with the British Columbia Branch of the Kidney Foundation of Canada.

Lance counts economics and current events, television and movies, and a broad range of music among his interests and also enjoys reading, swimming, and biking. Lance's only legal credentials include having watched every episode of all twenty seasons of Dick Wolf's original Law & Order, as well as every episode aired to date of the show's Special Victims Unit and UK franchises. His next goal is perhaps an actual Juris Doctor – or running through the five seasons of David Simon's HBO series, The Wire.