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Lisa Teryl's first book, Nova Scotia Law: Everything You Wanted to Know But Couldn't Afford to Ask, was published by Pottersfield Press (October 2002). The book is a compilation of two years of Sunday Daily News legal columns, which she wrote from 2000-2005.
She has been practising law for eleven years and founded the firm Teryl Scott, Lawyers inc. with her brother Shawn Scott, who also provided the cartoons for the book. When not in the courtroom, Lisa can be heard on CBC Radio's Mainstreet as their resident legal expert. She is currently working on her next book: A Democracy Lover's Guide to the Canadian Constitution.
Lisa also has a black belt in Chito Rye Karate and loves to windsurf.
- Nova Scotia Law: Everything You Wanted to Know But Couldn't Afford to Ask. Cartoons by Shawn Scott. Pottersfield Press, 2002. ISBN 1-895900-53-0.
- "[P]resented in a question-and-answer format, it's a book made for browsing, depending on personal interests, but I also found it an absorbing read from start to finish. [Teryl's] answers to questions posed by readers are concise and to the point, often illustrated with stories and actual cases." - Marilyn Smoulders, The Daily News, March 2003.
- "Lisa Teryl is a lawyer on a mission. She is determined to make the law more user-friendly and hopefully lawyers more approachable..." - Michelle Thomason, The Sunday Herald, June 2003
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- Columnist for the Sunday Daily News, 2000 - present.
- CBC Radio Mainstreet's legal expert since summer 2003.
- CBC Newsworld The Docket, "in-house legal counsel" responding to legal questions on the show's website under Pro Bono, winter 2003.
- Global TV Maritime Noon, monthly segment on various topics on the law, winter 2003 - present.
