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Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 167
  • Business and aboriginal law 17
  • Child protection 24
  • Criminal justice system 14
  • Family law 22
  • General 68
  • Lands and title 66
  • Litigation 14
  • Practice 31
  • Rights 57
  • Self-government 37
  • Tax issues 10
  • Treaty Negotiations 5
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 5
  • Wills and estates
• Administrative Law 144
  • Abuse of discretion 2
  • Appellate review 27
  • Charter cases 16
  • Discipline proceedings 13
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 10
  • Judicial review 77
  • Jurisdiction 13
  • Natural justice 11
  • Practice 63
  • Remedies 21
  • Tribunals 42
• ADR 100
  • Arbitration 36
  • Collaborative law 2
  • Judicial review 7
  • Mediation 23
  • Mediation--family law 21
  • Practice 31
• Air Law
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 40
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 7
  • Appeals 1
  • Directors liability 4
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 5
  • General 22
  • Petitions
  • Practice 3
  • Priorities 17
  • Proposals 10
  • Receiving orders 4
  • Settlements and preferences 7
  • Trustees 3
• Builders Liens 14
• Business Law 360
  • Acquisitions and mergers 45
  • Amalgamations 1
  • Banking law 4
  • Buying and selling a business 70
  • Capital alterations 4
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 28
  • Client Relations 11
  • Commercial litigation 36
  • Competition law 1
  • Continuations 1
  • Contracts 34
  • Corporate finance 60
  • Corporate governance 43
  • Corporate procedures 29
  • Directors 9
  • Dissolution and restoration
  • Ethics 14
  • Extra-provincial companies
  • Fiduciary 3
  • Franchising 2
  • Fraud 7
  • Incorporation and organization 18
  • International 8
  • Partnerships 9
  • Practice 44
  • Privacy 11
  • Professional Responsibility 26
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 15
  • Shares 8
  • Tax issues 29
• Communications Law 10
• Creditors Remedies 71
  • Acting for the creditor 29
  • Acting for the debtor 26
  • Assets subject to attachment 8
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 9
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 1
  • Consumer Protection
  • Equitable remedies 3
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 10
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 3
  • Postjudgment remedies 6
  • Prejudgment garnishment 4
  • Priorities 17
  • Proceeding to judgment 3
  • Repairers liens
  • Searches 2
• Criminal Law 100
  • Anti-terrorism
  • Appeals 3
  • Charter of Rights 21
  • Client Relations 5
  • Defences 9
  • Ethics 8
  • Evidence 37
  • Judicial interim release 2
  • Juries
  • Offences 22
  • Practice 25
  • Professional Responsibility 20
  • Sentencing 17
  • Young offenders 6
• Employment Law 184
  • Benefits 4
  • Client Relations 8
  • Compensation 7
  • Defamation 3
  • Discrimination 46
  • Duties and liabilities 33
  • Employment contracts 35
  • Employment standards 18
  • Ethics 3
  • General 48
  • Mandatory Retirement
  • Occupational health and safety 28
  • Pensions 4
  • Practice 30
  • Privacy 37
  • Professional Responsibility 9
  • Sexual harassment 8
  • Tax issues 3
  • Wrongful dismissal 46
• Environmental Law 27
  • Conservation covenants
  • Contaminated sites 19
  • Endangered species
  • Environmental assessment 5
  • Environmental protection 4
  • Forest practices
  • Insurance 1
  • Liability 9
  • Waste management
• Family Law 394
  • Adoption 9
  • ADR 37
  • Advocacy 1
  • Appeals 3
  • Child protection 65
  • Child support 43
  • Client Relations 61
  • Collaborative law 8
  • Common law spouses 6
  • Conflict of laws 7
  • Costs 8
  • Custody and access 75
  • Division of property 84
  • Divorce 5
  • Ethics 42
  • Evidence 42
  • General 84
  • Guardianship 56
  • Interim relief 11
  • Marriage 5
  • Marriage agreements 8
  • Mediation 20
  • Multiculturalism 11
  • Naming children 2
  • Orders 26
  • Pensions 6
  • Pleadings 53
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 5
  • Professional Responsibility 35
  • Property Agreements 8
  • Property Agreements
  • References to Registrar 2
  • Same-sex couples 9
  • Separation agreements 12
  • Spousal support 52
  • Tax issues 10
  • Unrepresented Litigants 17
• FOI and Privacy 41
• Health Law 25
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution
• Human Rights 137
  • BCHRA 17
  • Charter 42
  • CHRA 3
  • Client Relations
  • Discrimination 56
  • Ethics 3
  • Ethics 1
  • General 29
  • Procedure 13
  • Professional Responsibility 3
  • Remedies 14
• Immigration 95
  • Admission 39
  • Appeals 28
  • Business immigrants 30
  • Citizenship 18
  • Client Relations 10
  • Ethics 14
  • Extradition 9
  • Permanent residency 14
  • Policy 29
  • Practice 52
  • Professional Responsibility 5
  • Refugees 34
  • Tax issues 5
  • Visas 13
• Insurance 94
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 3
  • Agents 2
  • Claims 19
  • Contracts 29
  • Damages 2
  • Defences 13
  • Directors and officers insurance 2
  • Duties and liabilities 11
  • Exclusions 19
  • Fire insurance 2
  • Homeowners insurance 8
  • Lawyers liability insurance 3
  • Liability insurance generally 21
  • Life insurance 7
  • Litigation 25
  • Motor vehicle insurance 18
  • Municipal
  • Non Disclosure 4
  • Property and loss of income insurance 4
  • Subrogation 10
• Intellectual Property 11
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 3
  • Computer software and Internet issues
  • Copyright 3
  • Licensing 3
  • Patents 4
  • Remedies
  • Tax issues
  • Trade-marks 6
  • Trade secrets 3
• Labour Law 50
  • Arbitration 23
  • Certification and decertification 2
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 7
  • Industrial disputes
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 14
  • Picketing 1
  • Practice 8
  • Successorship 2
  • Unfair labour practices 4
  • Unions 15
• Legal Research and Writing 23
• Legal Support Staff 266
  • Business law for LSS 15
  • Civil litigation for LSS 41
  • Collections for LSS
  • Conveyancing for LSS 55
  • Corporate records for LSS 1
  • Estate administration for LSS 24
  • Family law for LSS 71
  • Foreclosures for LSS
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 40
  • PPSA for LSS 2
  • Research for LSS 1
  • Securities for LSS
• Litigation 884
  • Aboriginal litigation 8
  • Advocacy skills 47
  • Appeals 21
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
  • Causes of action 58
  • Chambers applications 35
  • Class actions 43
  • Client Relations 40
  • Commercial litigation 32
  • Conflict of laws 3
  • Constitutional 5
  • Costs 54
  • Damages 27
  • Defamation 14
  • Discovery 86
  • Economic Loss 1
  • Estate litigation 46
  • Ethics 69
  • Evidence 216
  • Experts 141
  • Host Liability
  • Infants 11
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance
  • Intellectual property litigation 1
  • Juries 8
  • Jurisdiction 34
  • Labour and employment litigation 14
  • Law Reform 20
  • Limitation of actions 11
  • Limitation Periods 15
  • Municipal 4
  • Orders 13
  • Pleadings 80
  • Practice 188
  • Pre-trial Procedures 43
  • Professional Responsibility 89
  • Real estate litigation 47
  • Remedies 13
  • Reviews 4
  • Securities litigation 7
  • Settlement 27
  • Summary trials 16
  • Tax issues for litigators
  • Tax litigation
  • Torts 39
  • Trials 72
  • Unrepresented Litigants 30
  • Vicarious liability 2
• Maritime Law 1
• Municipal Law 39
  • Actions by and against municipalities 3
  • Bylaws 9
  • Contracts 3
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management 1
  • General 24
  • Land use planning 7
  • Licensing 2
  • Litigation 2
  • Municipal councils 7
  • Powers of municipality 11
  • Subdivision 14
  • Zoning 3
• Natural Resources 43
  • Aboriginal rights 13
  • Fisheries law
  • Forestry law 10
  • General 11
  • Mining law 29
  • Oil and gas law 4
  • Water 2
  • Wildlife
• Personal Injury 164
  • Client Relations 15
  • Damages 48
  • Defences 15
  • Ethics 13
  • Family compensation claims 3
  • Host Liability 3
  • Injuries 48
  • Insurance 13
  • Mediation 4
  • Medical malpractice 4
  • Motor vehicle accidents 31
  • Occupiers liability 5
  • Part 7 benefits 14
  • Practice 67
  • Professional Responsibility 23
  • Structured settlements and judgments 8
  • Tax issues 3
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
• Practice Management 243
  • Billing 22
  • Client development 15
  • Client Relations 84
  • Conduct and the Law Society 16
  • Document management 31
  • Employee hiring and retention 9
  • Ethics 111
  • In House Counsel 1
  • Insurance 5
  • Management and organization of firms 21
  • Partnership issues 11
  • Professional Responsibility 8
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
  • Solicitor-client privilege 12
  • Technology 25
  • Trust accounting 7
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 177
  • Client Relations 76
  • Ethics 142
• Real Estate 438
  • Agents and brokers 11
  • Assessment 19
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 12
  • Charges on title 9
  • Client Relations 26
  • Closing procedures 18
  • Commercial leases 32
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 2
  • Construction contracts 28
  • Construction litigation 26
  • Conveyancing practice 57
  • Development cost charges 2
  • Development--general 52
  • Development rights 12
  • Environmental issues 6
  • Ethics 30
  • Expropriation 3
  • Financing 22
  • Foreclosure 32
  • Government approvals 4
  • Indian Act conveyancing 8
  • Land Title Office 31
  • Legal proceedings 67
  • Manufactured homes 2
  • Mortgages 27
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 1
  • Professional Responsibility 23
  • Purchase contract 28
  • Residential tenancies 7
  • Searches and investigations 9
  • Site development control 1
  • Statements of adjustments 3
  • Strata corporations 17
  • Strata plans 10
  • Strata properties--general 45
  • Structure of the developer 2
  • Subdivision 22
  • Surveys 11
  • Tax issues 67
  • Title 22
  • Undertakings 5
  • Vancouver Charter 3
  • Zoning 4
• School Law 2
• Secured Transactions 11
  • Chattel mortgages
  • Conflict of laws 1
  • Debtor protection 6
  • Due diligence 1
  • Enforcement 1
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 1
  • General 5
  • Intellectual property 2
  • Loans
  • Mortgages 2
  • Perfection
  • Purchase money security interests
  • Receivers
  • Registration 4
  • Security agreements 7
  • Security interests 3
• Securities 66
  • Appeals 1
  • BC Securities Commission 10
  • Disclosure 10
  • Due diligence 1
  • General 23
  • Hearings 1
  • Investigations 2
  • Judicial review 2
  • Local Policy Statements
  • National Registration Database
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
  • Offences 5
  • Orders 1
  • Practice 16
  • Private placement 2
  • Public offering 3
  • Regulation 10
  • Searches
  • Stockbrokers
  • Stock exchanges 4
  • Stock options
  • Takeover bids 5
  • Underwriters 1
• Solicitor 51
  • Conduct and the Law Society 16
  • Conflict of interest 10
  • Ethics 24
  • Solicitor-client privilege 17
• Tax 97
  • Aboriginal tax issues 5
  • Anti-avoidance rules 1
  • Appeals
  • Audits
  • Buying and selling a business 4
  • Capital gains 8
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 2
  • Collection practices and procedures 1
  • Corporate 22
  • Family law tax issues 5
  • Foreign income 1
  • General 10
  • Goods and Services Tax 10
  • Income splitting and attribution rules
  • Income tax 9
  • Intellectual property tax issues
  • Lawyers and law firms 1
  • Offshore taxation
  • Partnership 3
  • Pensions
  • Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 1
  • Practice 7
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 7
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 7
  • Reorganizations 4
  • Rollovers 5
  • Sales tax 8
  • Shares and shareholders 6
  • Tax litigation 1
  • Tax planning 5
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 36
• Technology Law 53
  • Intellectual property 5
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 2
  • Online contract formation
  • Practice 24
  • Privacy laws 8
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 5
  • Research 5
• Wills Estates and Trusts 312
  • Administration application 17
  • Adult guardianship 26
  • Charitable giving 2
  • Client Relations 37
  • Devolution of assets 34
  • Elder care 52
  • Estate litigation 75
  • Estate planning 132
  • Ethics 21
  • Executors and trustees 22
  • Fiduciary 2
  • General 37
  • Multijurisdictional estates 5
  • Probate application 17
  • Professional Responsibility 32
  • Tax issues 49
  • Trust planning 63
  • Wills 61
• Workers Compensation 24
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 1
  • Claims 20
  • General 11
  • Liability of employer 20
  • Procedure 6
  • Workers Compensation Board 3