Kristin Dobrosky, Barrister, Solicitor & Notary Public
JD (Schulich School of Law), BoBM (Dalhousie University)
Kristin Dobrosky
Kristin is dedicated to the ways in which the law can empower, restore, and protect rights. With a dynamic background in law and business, she believes in offering holistic legal solutions to her Clients as they heal, grow and progress through their lived experiences.
Kristin graduated with Distinction from the Dalhousie Bachelor of Business Management Program in 2012. Throughout her business studies she was actively involved with her Faculty and served as Vice President Finance (2010-2011) and Vice President External (2011-2012) for the Dalhousie Management Society. She also travelled to Mississippi with the Dalhousie Habitat for Humanity Chapter to build houses for Hurricane Katrina victims, co-chaired the inaugural Dalhousie Annual Seven Speaker Series, and worked with the University council to approve the first law minor for the Bachelor of Management program.
After obtaining her BoBM Kristin moved to Melbourne, Australia, where she was appointed as Operations Manager for the award-winning financial advising firm, Freedom Finance Australia, before returning home to complete her Juris Doctor in Law at Dalhousie’s Schulich School of Law.
Throughout law school Kristin worked as a Student at Law for a boutique firm in Halifax focused on Real Estate & Property Law and Wills & Estates. She also participated in the Dalhousie Legal Aid Clinic as a Senior Law Student where she provided legal aid services in the areas of Youth Criminal, Family & Child Protection, Residential Tenancies, and Income Assistance Law.
Kristin believes in fostering Nova Scotia and its’ communities. Her community contributions include: working with the Nova Scotia Access to Justice & Law Reform Institute on legal education projects, teaching part-time at Schulich School of Law, offering Probono estate planning documents to terminally ill individuals through the Nova Scotia Health Law Program, and providing trauma-informed Probono legal advice to workplace sexual harassment survivors, in collaboration with the Legal Information Society of Nova Scotia.