Practice Areas
- Aboriginal Law 320
- Administrative Law 265
- ADR 212
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 86
- Builders Liens 33
-
Business Law
474
- Acquisitions and mergers 11
- Amalgamations 3
- Banking law 8
- Buying and selling a business 28
- Capital alterations 1
- Charities and non-profit organizations 66
- Client Relations 2
- Commercial litigation 67
- Competition law 26
- Continuations 1
- Contracts 56
- Corporate finance 39
- Corporate governance 55
- Corporate procedures 36
- Directors 25
- Dissolution and restoration 2
- Ethics 3
- Extra-provincial companies 4
- Fiduciary 7
- Franchising 5
- Fraud 7
- Incorporation and organization 43
- International 7
- Partnerships 27
- Practice 4
- Privacy 5
- Professional Responsibility 5
- Searches
- Shareholders 28
- Shares 11
- Tax issues 67
- Communications Law 12
-
Creditors Remedies
63
- Acting for the creditor 18
- Acting for the debtor 9
- Assets subject to attachment 7
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 8
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens
- Consumer Protection 1
- Equitable remedies 5
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 7
- Injunctions and preservation orders 3
- Postjudgment remedies 8
- Prejudgment garnishment 3
- Priorities 26
- Proceeding to judgment
- Repairers liens
- Searches 2
- Criminal Law 253
-
Employment Law
463
- Benefits 15
- Client Relations
- Compensation 18
- Defamation 2
- Discrimination 149
- Duties and liabilities 64
- Employment contracts 78
- Employment standards 59
- Ethics 1
- General 57
- Mandatory Retirement 10
- Occupational health and safety 47
- Pensions 22
- Practice 9
- Privacy 63
- Professional Responsibility 2
- Sexual harassment 16
- Tax issues 3
- Wrongful dismissal 142
- Environmental Law 81
-
Family Law
672
- Adoption 4
- ADR 61
- Advocacy
- Appeals 3
- Child protection 94
- Child support 89
- Client Relations 62
- Collaborative law 15
- Common law spouses 16
- Conflict of laws 11
- Costs 7
- Custody and access 119
- Division of property 144
- Divorce 11
- Ethics 50
- Evidence 52
- General 56
- Guardianship 39
- Interim relief 29
- Marriage 4
- Marriage agreements 25
- Mediation 39
- Multiculturalism 10
- Naming children 1
- Orders 13
- Pensions 13
- Pleadings 71
- Pre-nuptial agreements 12
- Professional Responsibility 41
- Property Agreements 13
- Property Agreements 12
- References to Registrar
- Same-sex couples 6
- Separation agreements 22
- Spousal support 113
- Tax issues 26
- Unrepresented Litigants 15
- FOI and Privacy 116
- Health Law 50
- Human Rights 394
- Immigration 214
-
Insurance
221
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 18
- Agents 3
- Claims 40
- Contracts 34
- Damages 9
- Defences 34
- Directors and officers insurance 7
- Duties and liabilities 15
- Exclusions 26
- Fire insurance 3
- Homeowners insurance 17
- Lawyers liability insurance 6
- Liability insurance generally 46
- Life insurance 11
- Litigation 68
- Motor vehicle insurance 28
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 5
- Property and loss of income insurance 4
- Subrogation 22
- Intellectual Property 70
- Labour Law 137
- Legal Research and Writing 32
- Legal Support Staff 398
-
Litigation
1728
- Aboriginal litigation 42
- Advocacy skills 16
- Appeals 40
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 95
- Chambers applications 102
- Class actions 91
- Client Relations 28
- Commercial litigation 93
- Conflict of laws 11
- Constitutional 26
- Costs 119
- Damages 60
- Defamation 23
- Discovery 168
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 114
- Ethics 67
- Evidence 336
- Experts 173
- Host Liability 3
- Infants 5
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 2
- Intellectual property litigation 13
- Juries 26
- Jurisdiction 50
- Labour and employment litigation 58
- Law Reform 25
- Limitation of actions 8
- Limitation Periods 25
- Municipal 11
- Orders 22
- Pleadings 170
- Practice 140
- Pre-trial Procedures 98
- Professional Responsibility 46
- Real estate litigation 91
- Remedies 26
- Reviews 3
- Securities litigation 32
- Settlement 82
- Summary trials 33
- Tax issues for litigators 1
- Tax litigation 3
- Torts 105
- Trials 195
- Unrepresented Litigants 46
- Vicarious liability 19
- Maritime Law 2
- Municipal Law 59
- Natural Resources 82
-
Personal Injury
294
- Client Relations 13
- Damages 72
- Defences 32
- Ethics 16
- Family compensation claims 6
- Host Liability 13
- Injuries 59
- Insurance 29
- Mediation 16
- Medical malpractice 6
- Motor vehicle accidents 73
- Occupiers liability 6
- Part 7 benefits 30
- Practice 84
- Professional Responsibility 18
- Structured settlements and judgments 12
- Tax issues 7
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
-
Practice Management
368
- Billing 50
- Client development 30
- Client Relations 91
- Conduct and the Law Society 28
- Document management 90
- Employee hiring and retention 12
- Ethics 110
- In House Counsel 3
- Insurance 11
- Management and organization of firms 31
- Partnership issues 2
- Professional Responsibility 2
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
- Solicitor-client privilege 37
- Technology 40
- Trust accounting 16
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 165
-
Real Estate
612
- Agents and brokers 14
- Assessment 39
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 9
- Charges on title 12
- Client Relations 12
- Closing procedures 14
- Commercial leases 64
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general
- Construction contracts 97
- Construction litigation 59
- Conveyancing practice 26
- Development cost charges 14
- Development--general 68
- Development rights 9
- Environmental issues 22
- Ethics 17
- Expropriation 2
- Financing 10
- Foreclosure 64
- Government approvals 1
- Indian Act conveyancing 8
- Land Title Office 6
- Legal proceedings 89
- Manufactured homes 4
- Mortgages 31
- Owner developers and strata corporations 3
- Professional Responsibility 6
- Purchase contract 26
- Residential tenancies 12
- Searches and investigations 8
- Site development control 1
- Statements of adjustments
- Strata corporations 30
- Strata plans 6
- Strata properties--general 62
- Structure of the developer
- Subdivision 20
- Surveys 2
- Tax issues 60
- Title 9
- Undertakings 2
- Vancouver Charter 3
- Zoning 2
- School Law 47
- Secured Transactions 42
-
Securities
144
- Appeals 3
- BC Securities Commission 13
- Disclosure 32
- Due diligence 4
- General 53
- Hearings 6
- Investigations 3
- Judicial review 6
- Local Policy Statements 1
- National Registration Database 1
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
- Offences 15
- Orders 6
- Practice 7
- Private placement 10
- Public offering 15
- Regulation 26
- Searches 4
- Stockbrokers 2
- Stock exchanges 11
- Stock options 7
- Takeover bids 13
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 139
-
Tax
211
- Aboriginal tax issues 7
- Anti-avoidance rules
- Appeals 2
- Audits 4
- Buying and selling a business 6
- Capital gains 6
- Charities and non-profit organizations 4
- Collection practices and procedures 1
- Corporate 50
- Family law tax issues 21
- Foreign income 3
- General 8
- Goods and Services Tax 29
- Income splitting and attribution rules 1
- Income tax 12
- Intellectual property tax issues 2
- Lawyers and law firms 5
- Offshore taxation 3
- Partnership 3
- Pensions 1
- Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 2
- Practice 5
- Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 13
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 8
- Reorganizations 5
- Rollovers 4
- Sales tax 18
- Shares and shareholders 6
- Tax litigation 2
- Tax planning 5
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 68
- Technology Law 97
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
518
- Administration application 34
- Adult guardianship 39
- Charitable giving 8
- Client Relations 28
- Devolution of assets 41
- Elder care 82
- Estate litigation 131
- Estate planning 176
- Ethics 20
- Executors and trustees 38
- Fiduciary 3
- General 50
- Multijurisdictional estates 9
- Probate application 36
- Professional Responsibility 28
- Tax issues 86
- Trust planning 118
- Wills 57
- Workers Compensation 46
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PRACTICE AREA
- Aboriginal Law 320
- Administrative Law 265
- ADR 212
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 86
- Builders Liens 33
-
Business Law
474
- Acquisitions and mergers 11
- Amalgamations 3
- Banking law 8
- Buying and selling a business 28
- Capital alterations 1
- Charities and non-profit organizations 66
- Client Relations 2
- Commercial litigation 67
- Competition law 26
- Continuations 1
- Contracts 56
- Corporate finance 39
- Corporate governance 55
- Corporate procedures 36
- Directors 25
- Dissolution and restoration 2
- Ethics 3
- Extra-provincial companies 4
- Fiduciary 7
- Franchising 5
- Fraud 7
- Incorporation and organization 43
- International 7
- Partnerships 27
- Practice 4
- Privacy 5
- Professional Responsibility 5
- Searches
- Shareholders 28
- Shares 11
- Tax issues 67
- Communications Law 12
-
Creditors Remedies
63
- Acting for the creditor 18
- Acting for the debtor 9
- Assets subject to attachment 7
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 8
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens
- Consumer Protection 1
- Equitable remedies 5
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 7
- Injunctions and preservation orders 3
- Postjudgment remedies 8
- Prejudgment garnishment 3
- Priorities 26
- Proceeding to judgment
- Repairers liens
- Searches 2
- Criminal Law 253
-
Employment Law
463
- Benefits 15
- Client Relations
- Compensation 18
- Defamation 2
- Discrimination 149
- Duties and liabilities 64
- Employment contracts 78
- Employment standards 59
- Ethics 1
- General 57
- Mandatory Retirement 10
- Occupational health and safety 47
- Pensions 22
- Practice 9
- Privacy 63
- Professional Responsibility 2
- Sexual harassment 16
- Tax issues 3
- Wrongful dismissal 142
- Environmental Law 81
-
Family Law
672
- Adoption 4
- ADR 61
- Advocacy
- Appeals 3
- Child protection 94
- Child support 89
- Client Relations 62
- Collaborative law 15
- Common law spouses 16
- Conflict of laws 11
- Costs 7
- Custody and access 119
- Division of property 144
- Divorce 11
- Ethics 50
- Evidence 52
- General 56
- Guardianship 39
- Interim relief 29
- Marriage 4
- Marriage agreements 25
- Mediation 39
- Multiculturalism 10
- Naming children 1
- Orders 13
- Pensions 13
- Pleadings 71
- Pre-nuptial agreements 12
- Professional Responsibility 41
- Property Agreements 13
- Property Agreements 12
- References to Registrar
- Same-sex couples 6
- Separation agreements 22
- Spousal support 113
- Tax issues 26
- Unrepresented Litigants 15
- FOI and Privacy 116
- Health Law 50
- Human Rights 394
- Immigration 214
-
Insurance
221
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 18
- Agents 3
- Claims 40
- Contracts 34
- Damages 9
- Defences 34
- Directors and officers insurance 7
- Duties and liabilities 15
- Exclusions 26
- Fire insurance 3
- Homeowners insurance 17
- Lawyers liability insurance 6
- Liability insurance generally 46
- Life insurance 11
- Litigation 68
- Motor vehicle insurance 28
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 5
- Property and loss of income insurance 4
- Subrogation 22
- Intellectual Property 70
- Labour Law 137
- Legal Research and Writing 32
- Legal Support Staff 398
-
Litigation
1728
- Aboriginal litigation 42
- Advocacy skills 16
- Appeals 40
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 95
- Chambers applications 102
- Class actions 91
- Client Relations 28
- Commercial litigation 93
- Conflict of laws 11
- Constitutional 26
- Costs 119
- Damages 60
- Defamation 23
- Discovery 168
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 114
- Ethics 67
- Evidence 336
- Experts 173
- Host Liability 3
- Infants 5
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 2
- Intellectual property litigation 13
- Juries 26
- Jurisdiction 50
- Labour and employment litigation 58
- Law Reform 25
- Limitation of actions 8
- Limitation Periods 25
- Municipal 11
- Orders 22
- Pleadings 170
- Practice 140
- Pre-trial Procedures 98
- Professional Responsibility 46
- Real estate litigation 91
- Remedies 26
- Reviews 3
- Securities litigation 32
- Settlement 82
- Summary trials 33
- Tax issues for litigators 1
- Tax litigation 3
- Torts 105
- Trials 195
- Unrepresented Litigants 46
- Vicarious liability 19
- Maritime Law 2
- Municipal Law 59
- Natural Resources 82
-
Personal Injury
294
- Client Relations 13
- Damages 72
- Defences 32
- Ethics 16
- Family compensation claims 6
- Host Liability 13
- Injuries 59
- Insurance 29
- Mediation 16
- Medical malpractice 6
- Motor vehicle accidents 73
- Occupiers liability 6
- Part 7 benefits 30
- Practice 84
- Professional Responsibility 18
- Structured settlements and judgments 12
- Tax issues 7
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
-
Practice Management
368
- Billing 50
- Client development 30
- Client Relations 91
- Conduct and the Law Society 28
- Document management 90
- Employee hiring and retention 12
- Ethics 110
- In House Counsel 3
- Insurance 11
- Management and organization of firms 31
- Partnership issues 2
- Professional Responsibility 2
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
- Solicitor-client privilege 37
- Technology 40
- Trust accounting 16
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 165
-
Real Estate
612
- Agents and brokers 14
- Assessment 39
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 9
- Charges on title 12
- Client Relations 12
- Closing procedures 14
- Commercial leases 64
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general
- Construction contracts 97
- Construction litigation 59
- Conveyancing practice 26
- Development cost charges 14
- Development--general 68
- Development rights 9
- Environmental issues 22
- Ethics 17
- Expropriation 2
- Financing 10
- Foreclosure 64
- Government approvals 1
- Indian Act conveyancing 8
- Land Title Office 6
- Legal proceedings 89
- Manufactured homes 4
- Mortgages 31
- Owner developers and strata corporations 3
- Professional Responsibility 6
- Purchase contract 26
- Residential tenancies 12
- Searches and investigations 8
- Site development control 1
- Statements of adjustments
- Strata corporations 30
- Strata plans 6
- Strata properties--general 62
- Structure of the developer
- Subdivision 20
- Surveys 2
- Tax issues 60
- Title 9
- Undertakings 2
- Vancouver Charter 3
- Zoning 2
- School Law 47
- Secured Transactions 42
-
Securities
144
- Appeals 3
- BC Securities Commission 13
- Disclosure 32
- Due diligence 4
- General 53
- Hearings 6
- Investigations 3
- Judicial review 6
- Local Policy Statements 1
- National Registration Database 1
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
- Offences 15
- Orders 6
- Practice 7
- Private placement 10
- Public offering 15
- Regulation 26
- Searches 4
- Stockbrokers 2
- Stock exchanges 11
- Stock options 7
- Takeover bids 13
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 139
-
Tax
211
- Aboriginal tax issues 7
- Anti-avoidance rules
- Appeals 2
- Audits 4
- Buying and selling a business 6
- Capital gains 6
- Charities and non-profit organizations 4
- Collection practices and procedures 1
- Corporate 50
- Family law tax issues 21
- Foreign income 3
- General 8
- Goods and Services Tax 29
- Income splitting and attribution rules 1
- Income tax 12
- Intellectual property tax issues 2
- Lawyers and law firms 5
- Offshore taxation 3
- Partnership 3
- Pensions 1
- Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 2
- Practice 5
- Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 13
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 8
- Reorganizations 5
- Rollovers 4
- Sales tax 18
- Shares and shareholders 6
- Tax litigation 2
- Tax planning 5
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 68
- Technology Law 97
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
518
- Administration application 34
- Adult guardianship 39
- Charitable giving 8
- Client Relations 28
- Devolution of assets 41
- Elder care 82
- Estate litigation 131
- Estate planning 176
- Ethics 20
- Executors and trustees 38
- Fiduciary 3
- General 50
- Multijurisdictional estates 9
- Probate application 36
- Professional Responsibility 28
- Tax issues 86
- Trust planning 118
- Wills 57
- Workers Compensation 46
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