Faculty & Staff » Natasha Brown

Natasha Brown is the Director of Professional Practice & Externships.  She is the former Legal Director of Legal Help Centre of Winnipeg, Inc. (“LHC”), a non-profit, inner-city legal clinic, which provides clinical legal education opportunities for law students. Natasha received her Bachelor of Education in 2001 and her Bachelor of Laws in 2005, both from the University of Manitoba. Natasha worked in private practice, exclusively in the area of family law, until 2012. Natasha teaches Family Law and Advanced Family Law and is responsible for overseeing clinical & experiential externship opportunities for law students.  Natasha was the recipient of a Lexpert Zenith Award for Legal Excellence in 2017 in recognition for her work mentoring students and young lawyers.

-Presenter: “Training Family Law Lawyers”- National Family Law Program Conference- Halifax NS (originally scheduled for July, 2020- rescheduled to July, 2021)

-Presenter: “Plain Language Communication” - The Law Society of Manitoba (November, 2016)

-Presenter: “The Risks and Rewards of Clinic - Educating Law Students through Family Law Clinics” - International Journal of Clinical Legal Education (“IJCLE”) Conference in Toronto, Ont. (July, 2016)

-Presenter: “Self-Represented Litigants in Family Law” - The Law Society of Manitoba (April, 2016)

-Presenter: “Educating Through Access to Justice” – Law Society of Manitoba’s Pitblado Lectures (November, 2014)

-Guest Speaker: Robson Hall Feminist Legal Forum Panels- various dates

Guest Speaker: Pro Bono Students Canada- Manitoba Chapter Panel on Access to Justice- various dates

-President of the Association for Canadian Clinical Legal Education (ACCLE)

-Vice-Chair of the Manitoba Bar Association’s Women Lawyers Section

- Member of the Law Society of Manitoba’s Access to Justice Stakeholders Committee

-Elected council member of the Manitoba Bar Association

-Executive Member of the Manitoba Bar Association’s Legal Research Section

-Member of the Government of Manitoba’s Family Law Modernization Collaboration Table

-Member of the Manitoba Court of Queen’s Bench’s Family Law Joint Committee

-Member of The Law Society of Manitoba’s Access to Justice Stakeholders Committee

-Learning Group Facilitator for the Law Society of Manitoba’s CPLED program

-Member of the organizing committee of the Western Canada Family Law Negotiation Competition