Darlene Wingerak
Practice Areas
Darlene’s practice focuses on corporate and commercial law and alternative dispute resolution (ADR).
- Business Transactions Team
- Commercial Lending and Corporate Finance
- Commercial Transactions and Real-Estate
- Corporate Law and Governance
- Non-profit and Charitable Law
- Small Business
- Landlord and Tenancy
- Alternative Dispute Resolution
- Non-profits and Charities
- Family Law
- Mediation
- Residential Real-Estate
- Wills & Estates
Education
Darlene holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree, specializing in finance, marketing and general business, from the University of Saskatchewan. She worked in the banking industry as a commercial lender before returning to the U of S to attend law school. Darlene received her Bachelor of Laws (With Distinction) in 1992 and was called to the Saskatchewan bar in 1993, receiving the Academic Excellence Award for the highest standing on the exam that year. Darlene also has training in mediation, facilitation, and collaborative law.
Darlene holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree, specializing in finance, marketing and general business, from the University of Saskatchewan. She worked in the banking industry as a commercial lender before returning to the U of S to attend law school. Darlene received her Bachelor of Laws (With Distinction) in 1992 and was called to the Saskatchewan bar in 1993, receiving the Academic Excellence Award for the highest standing on the exam that year. Darlene also has training in mediation, facilitation, and collaborative law.
Professional Involvement
Darlene’s commercial law experience includes the purchase and sale of businesses, commercial finance transactions, shareholder agreements and general corporate transactions.
Darlene worked as a mediator with the provincial Ministry of Justice and Attorney General. In this role Darlene mediated family and civil files and facilitated both two party and multi-party disputes. She also participated in the design and delivery of conflict resolution workshops and delivered presentations on family law issues and other legal topics. In private practice Darlene presented at workshops on workplace harassment and designed and delivered a full day workshop on conflict management for the workplace.
Darlene’s prior experience includes being appointed a Deputy Rentalsman with the Office of the Rentalsman (now Office of Residential Tenancies), Darlene chaired hearings and adjudicated landlord and tenant disputes under The Residential Tenancies Act.
In addition to her work with clients, Darlene has offered her expertise in mediation and ADR to law students at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law as a presenter and coach. She has presented on conflict resolution and civil mediation for professional organizations and has been a volunteer presenter with the Public Legal Education Association of Saskatchewan.
Darlene is an active member of the Law Society of Saskatchewan and of the Canadian Bar Association, also serving as the CBA Saskatchewan Branch Vice Chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Section.
Community Involvement
Away from the office, Darlene is busy with her husband and their three active children.
Away from the office, Darlene is busy with her husband and their three active children.