Karen Lau-Po-Hung

Karen is an experienced trial lawyer with a focus on jury trials – her record speaks for herself, she has had tremendous success securing acquittals for clients in jury trials for all types of offences including first and second-degree murder prosecutions. She has also won acquittals in judge alone trials, including a first-degree murder. Though she has defended nearly every criminal charge known to law, she specializes in complex prosecutions involving allegations of firearms possession and drug trafficking.

She has argued cases at every level of court, including the Supreme Court of Canada. In addition to her heavy caseload, Karen is an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School, where she co-teaches upper year students in the specialist Criminal Procedure course and Crim Law II: Advocacy Criminal Trial course.