Andi MacKay is a co-founder of MacKay Boyar Law Corporation and one of the leading civil and commercial litigators in the province. She is a dedicated trial lawyer with an extremely broad practice based on an inviolate commitment to her clients and their causes.

Benchmark Litigation recognizes her as a Litigation Star with an “impressive pedigree” and an “interesting” practice combining criminal and commercial matters.  She is also recognized for her expertise in criminal cases involving allegations of ineffective assistance of counsel.

Some of Andi’s corporate clients include the Doctors of British Columbia, the Lawyers Insurance Fund and the Law Society of British Columbia. She also acts for a number of high net worth individuals in a broad range of litigation matters.

Andi’s practice includes complex civil litigation, select criminal cases, investigations and administrative proceedings. She is regularly at the helm of a number of leading cases on the scope of fiduciary duties and acts for clients in a range of other matters including oppression proceedings, shareholders disputes and commercial lease matters. She also acts for police officers involved with code of conduct proceedings and other administrative proceedings. From 2003 to 2010, Andi was an associate special prosecutor of a complex criminal proceeding involving allegations of breach of trust by ministerial assistants. She also practices in less common practice areas including tavern liability law, contempt of court and insurance coverage actions and is a regular participant in criminal cases involving allegations of ineffective assistance of counsel.

Andi is a member of the faculty of the National Criminal Law Program, a lecturer at Allan McEachern Advocacy Course and a frequent lecturer for continuing legal education programs. She has been a contributing author to a number of textbooks, usually on evidentiary issues.

Andi has been involved in constitutional cases including a challenge to Employment Insurance legislation denying adoptive mothers maternity benefits. Although she did not succeed in that case, she was honoured to participate (and still thinks the case was wrongly decided).

For many years, Andi had the privilege of practicing alongside William Berardino, Q.C., one of British Columbia’s most respected barristers. He challenged her not to specialize but instead to take on a broad array of cases, noting that, while the law is always changing, a general practice trial lawyer will develop advocacy skills that will remain constant. Andi took Bill’s advice, gaining a broad range of expertise which has proven to be invaluable when guiding clients through multi-faceted challenges.