Harper-Lee Overli

First Year of Call
2003 (AB)

Areas of Practice
Corporate Law, Insurance Law

Description
Harper-Lee Overli has been practicing since 2003. Her practice focuses on corporate commercial transactions, corporate commercial litigation, insurance and insurance litigation, building and development, administrative law, municipal law, bankruptcy and insolvency, financial and recovery services, and aboriginal law, including land claims litigation.

Harper-Lee has considerable court experience, having appeared before the Provincial Court of Alberta – Civil Division, the Provincial Court of Alberta – Criminal Division, the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench – Civil Division, the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench – Bankruptcy Division, and the Alberta Court of Appeal.

In addition to having her own practice, Harper-Lee has worked both in-house and in private practice, including acting as counsel for a large municipal corporation where she also worked proactively with its many business units and its governing entities, both elected and administrative, as senior counsel for one of Canada’s largest insurance companies, and as an associate with a multi-national law firm.

Harper-Lee is actively involved in the community. She sits on the Board of Governors of the Parks Foundation Calgary and is Chair of the Governance Committee of the Parks Foundation Calgary, was a director and past Executive Committee Member (Vice-Chair) for the Better Business Bureau of Southern Alberta and East Kootenay for a decade, is a sessional instructor at a local university where she prepares course curriculums and instructs several law- and business-related courses, and is an avid volunteer with a number of registered Alberta societies.

Harper-Lee prides herself in knowing her clients and working with them to obtain results which work for them.

Harper-Lee received her Queen’s Counsel, now King’s Counsel, designation in 2022.