POTTER, Kelli: B.A., LL.B.

Kelli was raised on a farm in the Rural Municipality of Dauphin before moving to the Winnipeg area where she completed her education and started her legal career.

She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Winnipeg in 2000 and her LLB from the University of Manitoba in 2004. Kelli’s preferred area of practice is agribusiness issues related to family law matters, including farm transition matters. In 2020 she completed her Advanced Family Mediation Training and in 2021 her arbitration training.

Kelli is a life member of Manitoba Bar Council, a past co-Chair of the MBA Alternative Dispute Resolution subsection and a Past President of the Western Manitoba Bar Association. She currently sits as a Bencher for the Law Society of Manitoba. Kelli has also been a guest speaker at the University of Winnipeg, University of Manitoba and Assiniboine Community College on topics related to the practice of family law, agribusiness legal issues, alternative dispute resolution and legal ethics.

My parents, grandparents and great-grandparents were farmers in the Dauphin area and I grew up as the fourth generation in this farming family. As a child I helped with our egg operation and as I got older, I helped with the cattle and grain operation. As I got older, I moved away from the farm, but always maintained an active interest in farming, which influenced the direction of my legal career. For most of my career, I have focused on farming families and their business operations, providing services in a broad range of areas including parenting plans that are tailored to the unique circumstances of farming families, family property division matters, income determination and support issues and farm restructuring and transitions, as well as estate planning for farmers and their families.

Member: Law Society of Manitoba