Robyn Schleihauf is a lawyer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia with experience working with professional regulators and other administrative decision-makers. Her favourite thing is assisting clients in making their processes efficient, effective, within their regulatory authority and sound from an administrative law perspective. She conducts her investigations from an empathetic and trauma-informed perspective.
Robyn is a member of the Canadian Bar Association. She worked as a Pro Bono lawyer for the North Preston Land Pro Bono Initiative and was successful in assisting her clients to gain title to their land. She continues to advocate to government to meet its obligations with respect to land titles in African Nova Scotian Communities, along with her colleague, Angela Simmonds. Robyn has appeared on CBC news and in The Coast to speak on this issue. She has also guest lectured at her alma mater, Osgoode Hall Law School with respect to the Land Titles System in Nova Scotia.
Robyn is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School (2015), where she received the Cassels Brock & Blackwell Award for Professionalism and the Ian Scott Public Interest Internship Award. For her internship, she worked at a Community Legal Aid Clinic for the Baamseeda program, along with the Indigenous legal coordinator, providing legal assistance to Indigenous communities and individuals.
Robyn also writes creative non-fiction and personal essays and serves on the Board of Directors for Afterwords Literary Festival in Halifax.
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