Angela Thiele

Partner - Vancouver Offices

Angela Thiele is a Vancouver lawyer and a partner with Lindsay Kenney LLP. A general litigator with a very varied practice, Angela leads LK Law’s Family Law practice group, and also handles employment matters for employers, employees and unions, estate and committee litigation, shareholders’ remedies, professional negligence matters and real estate litigation. She has also acted for the insured in coverage disputes and in disability and life insurance claims.

As LK Law’s leading family law lawyer in Vancouver, Angela addresses complex divorce issues, property division, protecting business interests, custody and access disputes, tax implications upon marriage breakdown and support payments. She helps to guide the work of LK Law’s other divorce lawyers, child custody lawyers, and family law lawyers in Vancouver and Langley.

Angela appears at all levels of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada, and has taken cases before many administrative tribunals, including WorkSafe BC, Unemployment Insurance Tribunals, and both the British Columbia and Canada Labour Relations Boards.

Born in Vancouver, BC, Angela obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science in 1980, and a Bachelor of Laws in 1983, both at the University of British Columbia. She was awarded several scholarships including the Law Society Gold Medal for the highest standing in the class over the three-year degree program.

Deeply engaged as a volunteer, Angela has guest-lectured on family, estate, and employment law at the People’s Law School, Terminal City Club, Murray Axsmith & Associates, South Vancouver Family Place, Stenberg & Associates and Continuing Legal Education. She has assisted the Law Society in professional discipline matters by participating in conduct reviews of other lawyers’ practices, and by advising lawyers how to respond to Law Society complaints. Angela is active in her community serving as a past Library Board member as well as a Parks Board Commissioner for 2009/10 for the city of Burnaby. Ms. Thiele also devotes many hours towards a charity fundraiser for Ovarian Cancer Canada, spearheading an annual event known as Laughter through the Tears.