Jeneane practices extensively in the administrative, municipal and planning law areas. With over 90 reported decisions from all levels of the Alberta Courts, her litigation experience provides a solid context for advising clients in meeting their challenges in the administrative, municipal and planning areas.
Jeneane leads legal teams on complex litigation and policy/bylaw development. As a partner since 2008, Jeneane performs a senior role managing client relations and associate development. Jeneane also served on Brownlee LLP’s Policy Board (2010-2014), providing strategic direction on a myriad of financial and business development matters, and leading Brownlee LLP’s municipal team.
Practise Areas:
Administrative law: Assisting clients and tribunals with jurisdictional matters, due process, governance and related litigation. Jeneane has also appeared before numerous tribunals including subdivision and development appeal boards, assessment review boards, the Safety Codes Council, the Municipal Government Board, the Natural Resources and Conservation Board, the Alberta Utilities Commission and the Environmental Appeal Board.
Planning and Development: advising municipalities on drafting and implementation land use bylaws, statutory plans, off-site levies and other cost recovery mechanisms. Assisting municipalities and developers on all litigation relating to contested developments, subdivisions, intermunicipal disputes and annexations. Assisting municipalities with planning and development enforcement, including compliance with land use bylaws, development agreements, development permits, and subdivision approvals.
Municipal Bylaws: creation, amendment and enforcement.
Municipal Councillor Conflict of Interest: general advice and litigation.
Municipal Elections and Councillor Disqualification: general advice and litigation.
Memberships & Professional Affiliations:
Law Society of Alberta, Barrister & Solicitor
Women’s Law Network, Administrative and Municipal Member (Alberta)
Canadian Bar Association, Municipal Law Section, National Executive
Canadian Bar Association, Municipal Law Section (Northern Branch), Member, Past Secretary
Canadian Bar Association, Administrative Law Section, Member
University of Alberta City-Region Studies Centre, CURB Magazine and Regional Planning Speakers’ Series, Advisory Committee Member
University of Alberta, Faculty of Extension, Applied Land Use Planning Program, Past Advisor
Edmonton Bar Association, Member
Community Involvement:
Good Samaritan Society, Director
Suit Yourself, Volunteer
Southwest Zone Hockey (Edmonton), Parent Liaison
Heart & Stroke Foundation, Volunteer
St. John Ambulance, Pet Therapy Volunteer
Augustana University College, Alumni Relations Board, Past President and Board Member
Augustana University College Board of Regents, Past Member (Ex-Officio)
Ceres International Women’s Fraternity, International Board Past President and Board Member
Ceres International Women’s Fraternity, Alberta Chapter Past President and Charter Member
Education, Year of Call and Employment History:
2008-present Joined Brownlee LLP as a partner
2010-14 Served Brownlee LLP’s Policy Board, Municipal Practise Area Leader
1990 Commenced employment as an associate at Brownlee LLP (then Brownlee Fryett)
1990 King’s College, London, Master of Laws (Public Law)
1989 Law Society of Alberta, called as a Barrister & Solicitor
1988-89 City of Edmonton, Office of the City Solicitor (Articles of Clerkship)
1988 University of Alberta, Bachelor of Laws
1985 University of Alberta Bachelor of Arts (Political Science and Psychology)
1982-84 Augustana University College (Bachelor of Arts Program)
Brownlee LLP is a mid-sized, regional law firm with offices in Calgary and Edmonton, providing the breadth and depth of service of a full-service law firm throughout Alberta and the Yukon, Nunavut and Northwest Territories. With extensive and long-standing practices in almost all legal disciplines, Civil Litigation, Municipal and Administrative Law, and Corporate-Commercial Law remain the cornerstones and core strengths upon which we continue to build extensive specialized and unique practice areas.
Our firm was founded in the late 1930’s by the late John E. Brownlee, the 5th Premier of Alberta, who was the original architect of a client-centered service focused on local issues important to the client wherever they are located across this Province and the Territories. These traditions continue to this day, which in turn provide for a constant stimulus for innovation in response to the needs of our clients, and issues and adversities that they may face. The firm now draws upon the skills and expertise of its many dedicated practice groups which have arisen and been created in response to our clients’ requirements. Working within these teams, and on a broader level as a firm built upon common history, purpose and principles, we service the extremely broad and diverse nature of legal services required by our clients and the diverse economic landscape of Alberta. Today, this unique approach to legal services has served to make Brownlee LLP a very trusted and recognizable name throughout Western Canada.
