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Andrea R. Lim

Partner

Andrea articled with Dutton Brock LLP and joined the firm as an Associate in 2009 following her call to the Ontario bar.  She entered the Partnership in 2021.

Andrea practices insurance defence work, with a focus on first party accident benefits claims.

Education

Andrea completed her Bachelor of Arts with Honours distinction at the University of Toronto, Trinity College in 2003. She also obtained her Master of Arts in History at Queen’s University in 2005. Andrea went on to obtain her LLB at the University of Windsor in 2008.

 

Awards

Andrea was awarded a Queen’s Academic Bursary in 2003 following her acceptance to the Master of Arts program at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She was also the recipient of the Richard B. Linsay, Q.C. Exceptional Young Lawyer Award in 2016, and received the inaugural Medico-Legal Society of Toronto Dr. Grant Farrow Award in 2021.

Andrea has authored various published articles regarding first party accident benefits in Ontario, including “My Beautify Dark Twisted Fantasy: Combining Physical and Psychological Impairment”, Toronto Law Journal, June 2012, and “The Fine Line Between Custodial and ‘On Call’ Care”, Claims Canada, October 2012. Since 2016, Ms. Lim has been the co-author of the Annotated Statutory Accident Benefits Schedule, which is an annual text published by LexisNexis.

 

Andrea is a member of:

  • Advocates’ Society
  • Canadian Defence Lawyers Association – Board Member since 2016, Executive Board Member since 2019, and Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee
  • Federation of Asian Canadian Lawyers
  • Medico-Legal Society – Council Member since 2017, Executive Council Member since 2019
  • Ontario Bar Association
  • Canadian Bar Association
  • Women’s Law Association of Ontario
  • DRI – The Voice of the Defence Bar
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