Practice Areas
- Aboriginal Law 173
- Administrative Law 107
- ADR 91
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 16
- 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
-
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
-
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
- Human Rights 129
- Immigration 52
-
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
- Labour Law 37
- Legal Research and Writing 13
- Legal Support Staff 139
-
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
- Natural Resources 49
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
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- Aboriginal Law 173
- Administrative Law 107
- ADR 91
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 16
- 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
-
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
-
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
- Human Rights 129
- Immigration 52
-
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
- Labour Law 37
- Legal Research and Writing 13
- Legal Support Staff 139
-
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
- Natural Resources 49
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
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