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Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 173
  • Business and aboriginal law 28
  • Child protection 36
  • Criminal justice system 24
  • Family law 27
  • General 94
  • Lands and title 47
  • Litigation 13
  • Practice 50
  • Rights 73
  • Self-government 50
  • Tax issues 9
  • Treaty Negotiations 5
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 5
  • Wills and estates 1
• Administrative Law 107
  • Abuse of discretion 1
  • Appellate review 15
  • Charter cases 8
  • Discipline proceedings 8
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 2
  • Judicial review 55
  • Jurisdiction 13
  • Natural justice 11
  • Practice 51
  • Remedies 20
  • Tribunals 30
• ADR 91
  • Arbitration 27
  • Collaborative law 3
  • Judicial review 7
  • Mediation 16
  • Mediation--family law 11
  • Practice 35
• Air Law
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 16
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 4
  • Appeals 2
  • Directors liability 4
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 3
  • General 14
  • Petitions 1
  • Practice 10
  • Priorities 6
  • Proposals 5
  • Receiving orders 2
  • Settlements and preferences 5
  • Trustees 4
• Builders Liens 9
• Business Law 241
  • Acquisitions and mergers 32
  • Amalgamations 1
  • Banking law 4
  • Buying and selling a business 45
  • Capital alterations 4
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 21
  • Client Relations 27
  • Commercial litigation 19
  • Competition law
  • Continuations 2
  • Contracts 37
  • Corporate finance 32
  • Corporate governance 34
  • Corporate procedures 34
  • Directors 11
  • Dissolution and restoration 1
  • Ethics 14
  • Extra-provincial companies
  • Fiduciary 3
  • Franchising 8
  • Fraud 7
  • Incorporation and organization 14
  • International 4
  • Partnerships 9
  • Practice 42
  • Privacy 4
  • Professional Responsibility 37
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 7
  • Shares 5
  • Tax issues 7
• Communications Law 10
• Creditors Remedies 56
  • Acting for the creditor 34
  • Acting for the debtor 26
  • Assets subject to attachment 8
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 9
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
  • Consumer Protection
  • Equitable remedies 3
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 7
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 1
  • Postjudgment remedies 5
  • Prejudgment garnishment 3
  • Priorities 3
  • Proceeding to judgment 2
  • Repairers liens 1
  • Searches 2
• Criminal Law 75
  • Anti-terrorism
  • Appeals 2
  • Charter of Rights 17
  • Client Relations 2
  • Defences 5
  • Ethics 5
  • Evidence 24
  • Judicial interim release 3
  • Juries
  • Offences 13
  • Practice 17
  • Professional Responsibility 17
  • Sentencing 16
  • Young offenders 5
• Employment Law 171
  • Benefits 8
  • Client Relations 8
  • Compensation 13
  • Defamation 3
  • Discrimination 39
  • Duties and liabilities 36
  • Employment contracts 38
  • Employment standards 25
  • Ethics 4
  • General 54
  • Mandatory Retirement
  • Occupational health and safety 26
  • Pensions 3
  • Practice 35
  • Privacy 22
  • Professional Responsibility 12
  • Sexual harassment 9
  • Tax issues 3
  • Wrongful dismissal 46
• Environmental Law 26
  • Conservation covenants
  • Contaminated sites 17
  • Endangered species
  • Environmental assessment 4
  • Environmental protection 6
  • Forest practices
  • Insurance 1
  • Liability 11
  • Waste management
• Family Law 244
  • Adoption 14
  • ADR 26
  • Advocacy
  • Appeals 1
  • Child protection 71
  • Child support 25
  • Client Relations 60
  • Collaborative law 5
  • Common law spouses
  • Conflict of laws 3
  • Costs 3
  • Custody and access 69
  • Division of property 33
  • Divorce 10
  • Ethics 46
  • Evidence 30
  • General 60
  • Guardianship 42
  • Interim relief 9
  • Marriage 2
  • Marriage agreements 4
  • Mediation 13
  • Multiculturalism 22
  • Naming children 1
  • Orders 23
  • Pensions 2
  • Pleadings 40
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 1
  • Professional Responsibility 33
  • Property Agreements 1
  • Property Agreements
  • References to Registrar 1
  • Same-sex couples 7
  • Separation agreements 11
  • Spousal support 31
  • Tax issues 6
  • Unrepresented Litigants 27
• FOI and Privacy 22
• Health Law 7
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution
• Human Rights 129
  • BCHRA 24
  • Charter 31
  • CHRA 2
  • Client Relations 12
  • Discrimination 59
  • Ethics 11
  • Ethics 1
  • General 51
  • Procedure 12
  • Professional Responsibility 13
  • Remedies 15
• Immigration 52
  • Admission 16
  • Appeals 15
  • Business immigrants 8
  • Citizenship 4
  • Client Relations 13
  • Ethics 7
  • Extradition 2
  • Permanent residency 2
  • Policy 8
  • Practice 42
  • Professional Responsibility 9
  • Refugees 13
  • Tax issues
  • Visas 4
• Insurance 59
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 5
  • Agents 2
  • Claims 20
  • Contracts 22
  • Damages 5
  • Defences 7
  • Directors and officers insurance 2
  • Duties and liabilities 7
  • Exclusions 10
  • Fire insurance 3
  • Homeowners insurance 5
  • Lawyers liability insurance 2
  • Liability insurance generally 13
  • Life insurance 4
  • Litigation 16
  • Motor vehicle insurance 4
  • Municipal
  • Non Disclosure 3
  • Property and loss of income insurance 3
  • Subrogation 1
• Intellectual Property 6
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 2
  • Computer software and Internet issues 1
  • Copyright 1
  • Licensing 2
  • Patents 2
  • Remedies 1
  • Tax issues
  • Trade-marks 5
  • Trade secrets 2
• Labour Law 37
  • Arbitration 10
  • Certification and decertification 1
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 4
  • Industrial disputes
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 8
  • Picketing 1
  • Practice 4
  • Successorship 1
  • Unfair labour practices
  • Unions 8
• Legal Research and Writing 13
• Legal Support Staff 139
  • Business law for LSS 12
  • Civil litigation for LSS 24
  • Collections for LSS
  • Conveyancing for LSS 10
  • Corporate records for LSS 1
  • Estate administration for LSS 17
  • Family law for LSS 26
  • Foreclosures for LSS
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 23
  • PPSA for LSS
  • Research for LSS 1
  • Securities for LSS
• Litigation 553
  • Aboriginal litigation 7
  • Advocacy skills 38
  • Appeals 17
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
  • Causes of action 41
  • Chambers applications 34
  • Class actions 19
  • Client Relations 20
  • Commercial litigation 21
  • Conflict of laws 2
  • Constitutional 3
  • Costs 37
  • Damages 17
  • Defamation 11
  • Discovery 40
  • Economic Loss
  • Estate litigation 19
  • Ethics 51
  • Evidence 131
  • Experts 93
  • Host Liability
  • Infants 8
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
  • Intellectual property litigation 1
  • Juries 6
  • Jurisdiction 21
  • Labour and employment litigation 10
  • Law Reform 14
  • Limitation of actions 8
  • Limitation Periods 12
  • Municipal 2
  • Orders 7
  • Pleadings 57
  • Practice 114
  • Pre-trial Procedures 27
  • Professional Responsibility 79
  • Real estate litigation 39
  • Remedies 7
  • Reviews 3
  • Securities litigation 2
  • Settlement 20
  • Summary trials 9
  • Tax issues for litigators
  • Tax litigation
  • Torts 26
  • Trials 44
  • Unrepresented Litigants 19
  • Vicarious liability 2
• Maritime Law 1
• Municipal Law 13
  • Actions by and against municipalities
  • Bylaws 2
  • Contracts 1
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General 7
  • Land use planning 1
  • Licensing
  • Litigation
  • Municipal councils
  • Powers of municipality 2
  • Subdivision 7
  • Zoning 1
• Natural Resources 49
  • Aboriginal rights 15
  • Fisheries law
  • Forestry law 17
  • General 15
  • Mining law 28
  • Oil and gas law 2
  • Water 2
  • Wildlife
• Personal Injury 107
  • Client Relations 9
  • Damages 37
  • Defences 9
  • Ethics 5
  • Family compensation claims 3
  • Host Liability 2
  • Injuries 35
  • Insurance 9
  • Mediation 2
  • Medical malpractice 1
  • Motor vehicle accidents 21
  • Occupiers liability 4
  • Part 7 benefits 13
  • Practice 41
  • Professional Responsibility 11
  • Structured settlements and judgments 6
  • Tax issues 2
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
• Practice Management 233
  • Billing 12
  • Client development 14
  • Client Relations 85
  • Conduct and the Law Society 20
  • Document management 15
  • Employee hiring and retention 18
  • Ethics 121
  • In House Counsel 1
  • Insurance 5
  • Management and organization of firms 23
  • Partnership issues 12
  • Professional Responsibility 7
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
  • Solicitor-client privilege 16
  • Technology 20
  • Trust accounting 2
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 143
  • Client Relations 66
  • Ethics 113
• Real Estate 273
  • Agents and brokers 6
  • Assessment 16
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 19
  • Charges on title 8
  • Client Relations 12
  • Closing procedures 17
  • Commercial leases 17
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 13
  • Construction litigation 10
  • Conveyancing practice 27
  • Development cost charges 2
  • Development--general 20
  • Development rights 7
  • Environmental issues 2
  • Ethics 16
  • Expropriation 1
  • Financing 12
  • Foreclosure 21
  • Government approvals 2
  • Indian Act conveyancing 4
  • Land Title Office 12
  • Legal proceedings 46
  • Manufactured homes 3
  • Mortgages 14
  • Owner developers and strata corporations
  • Professional Responsibility 17
  • Purchase contract 16
  • Residential tenancies 2
  • Searches and investigations 4
  • Site development control 3
  • Statements of adjustments 2
  • Strata corporations 21
  • Strata plans 4
  • Strata properties--general 29
  • Structure of the developer 1
  • Subdivision 3
  • Surveys 1
  • Tax issues 51
  • Title 12
  • Undertakings 4
  • Vancouver Charter 2
  • Zoning 3
• School Law 2
• Secured Transactions 16
  • Chattel mortgages
  • Conflict of laws 1
  • Debtor protection 5
  • Due diligence
  • Enforcement 1
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 1
  • General 11
  • Intellectual property 2
  • Loans
  • Mortgages 1
  • Perfection
  • Purchase money security interests
  • Receivers
  • Registration 4
  • Security agreements 6
  • Security interests 3
• Securities 63
  • Appeals 2
  • BC Securities Commission 9
  • Disclosure 18
  • Due diligence 2
  • General 19
  • Hearings 4
  • Investigations 6
  • Judicial review 2
  • Local Policy Statements 3
  • National Registration Database
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
  • Offences 8
  • Orders 4
  • Practice 25
  • Private placement 3
  • Public offering 7
  • Regulation 13
  • Searches
  • Stockbrokers
  • Stock exchanges 8
  • Stock options
  • Takeover bids 6
  • Underwriters 1
• Solicitor 20
  • Conduct and the Law Society 6
  • Conflict of interest 3
  • Ethics 10
  • Solicitor-client privilege 8
• Tax 43
  • Aboriginal tax issues 5
  • Anti-avoidance rules
  • Appeals 1
  • Audits 2
  • Buying and selling a business
  • Capital gains 8
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 1
  • Collection practices and procedures
  • Corporate 9
  • Family law tax issues 2
  • Foreign income
  • General 1
  • Goods and Services Tax 2
  • Income splitting and attribution rules
  • Income tax 2
  • Intellectual property tax issues
  • Lawyers and law firms 1
  • Offshore taxation 1
  • Partnership 2
  • Pensions
  • Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 1
  • Practice 2
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 5
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 5
  • Reorganizations 3
  • Rollovers 3
  • Sales tax 2
  • Shares and shareholders 3
  • Tax litigation 2
  • Tax planning 7
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 17
• Technology Law 25
  • Intellectual property 5
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 3
  • Online contract formation
  • Practice 6
  • Privacy laws 6
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 4
  • Research 1
• Wills Estates and Trusts 184
  • Administration application 13
  • Adult guardianship 17
  • Charitable giving 2
  • Client Relations 30
  • Devolution of assets 15
  • Elder care 48
  • Estate litigation 40
  • Estate planning 74
  • Ethics 14
  • Executors and trustees 15
  • Fiduciary 2
  • General 11
  • Multijurisdictional estates 5
  • Probate application 9
  • Professional Responsibility 23
  • Tax issues 29
  • Trust planning 43
  • Wills 50
• Workers Compensation 25
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 1
  • Claims 21
  • General 13
  • Liability of employer 21
  • Procedure 6
  • Workers Compensation Board 3