Alison is a partner at Lockyer Campbell Posner. She graduated from the University of Guelph in 2002 with an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Psychology, and from Queen’s University Law School in 2005. While at Queen’s, she volunteered for the John Howard Society, serving as Vice President of the Board of Directors.In Kingston, Alison worked for the Correctional Law Project representing federal prison inmates at their disciplinary trials and parole hearings. She still conducts parole hearing for clients throughout Ontario. She has also represented clients before regulatory and licensing tribunals such as the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario. In 2005, Alison joined LCP as an articling student and after her Call to the Bar in 2006, joined the firm as an associate. In 2011, Alison was made a partner at the firm.Alison has a particular interest in Charter and impaired driving litigation. She specializes in defending people charged with drug offences, impaired driving offences, sexual assault, and violent offences. She has successfully defended persons accused of offences ranging from mischief to murder. In addition to her trial work, Alison has successfully argued conviction and sentence appeals at both the Summary Conviction Appeals Court for Ontario and the Ontario Court of Appeal.In 2007 and 2008, Alison represented 9 people at the Goudge Inquiry who were convicted of homicides as a result of the flawed pathology work of Dr. Charles Smith. In the years since the Inquiry concluded, many of those convictions have been quashed by the Ontario Court of Appeal.In 2010, Alison was successful in defending a client who the Crown sought to have designated a dangerous offender and imprisoned indefinitely. In 2011, Alison was successful in having charges against a client charged with murder dismissed at the conclusion of his preliminary inquiry. In 2013, Alison’s client was acquitted of second degree murder.