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Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 178
  • Business and aboriginal law 29
  • Child protection 36
  • Criminal justice system 24
  • Family law 27
  • General 96
  • Lands and title 50
  • Litigation 14
  • Practice 52
  • Rights 75
  • Self-government 50
  • Tax issues 9
  • Treaty Negotiations 5
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 5
  • Wills and estates 1
• Administrative Law 114
  • Abuse of discretion 1
  • Appellate review 17
  • Charter cases 9
  • Discipline proceedings 8
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 2
  • Judicial review 61
  • Jurisdiction 14
  • Natural justice 11
  • Practice 54
  • Remedies 20
  • Tribunals 33
• ADR 100
  • Arbitration 36
  • Collaborative law 3
  • Judicial review 7
  • Mediation 23
  • Mediation--family law 11
  • Practice 43
• Air Law
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 26
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 8
  • Appeals 2
  • Directors liability 5
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 4
  • General 18
  • Petitions 1
  • Practice 10
  • Priorities 12
  • Proposals 10
  • Receiving orders 4
  • Settlements and preferences 8
  • Trustees 4
• Builders Liens 9
• Business Law 258
  • Acquisitions and mergers 32
  • Amalgamations 1
  • Banking law 4
  • Buying and selling a business 52
  • Capital alterations 4
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 21
  • Client Relations 27
  • Commercial litigation 27
  • Competition law
  • Continuations 2
  • Contracts 37
  • Corporate finance 39
  • Corporate governance 35
  • Corporate procedures 35
  • Directors 12
  • Dissolution and restoration 1
  • Ethics 15
  • Extra-provincial companies
  • Fiduciary 4
  • Franchising 8
  • Fraud 8
  • Incorporation and organization 14
  • International 4
  • Partnerships 9
  • Practice 42
  • Privacy 4
  • Professional Responsibility 37
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 8
  • Shares 5
  • Tax issues 7
• Communications Law 10
• Creditors Remedies 77
  • Acting for the creditor 40
  • Acting for the debtor 31
  • Assets subject to attachment 10
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 12
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
  • Consumer Protection
  • Equitable remedies 3
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 9
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 3
  • Postjudgment remedies 7
  • Prejudgment garnishment 4
  • Priorities 9
  • Proceeding to judgment 4
  • Repairers liens 1
  • Searches 2
• Criminal Law 91
  • Anti-terrorism
  • Appeals 2
  • Charter of Rights 22
  • Client Relations 4
  • Defences 7
  • Ethics 6
  • Evidence 37
  • Judicial interim release 3
  • Juries
  • Offences 13
  • Practice 21
  • Professional Responsibility 17
  • Sentencing 16
  • Young offenders 5
• Employment Law 175
  • Benefits 8
  • Client Relations 8
  • Compensation 13
  • Defamation 3
  • Discrimination 41
  • Duties and liabilities 36
  • Employment contracts 38
  • Employment standards 25
  • Ethics 4
  • General 54
  • Mandatory Retirement
  • Occupational health and safety 27
  • Pensions 3
  • Practice 35
  • Privacy 26
  • Professional Responsibility 12
  • Sexual harassment 9
  • Tax issues 3
  • Wrongful dismissal 47
• 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 271
  • Adoption 14
  • ADR 26
  • Advocacy
  • Appeals 1
  • Child protection 71
  • Child support 28
  • Client Relations 63
  • Collaborative law 5
  • Common law spouses
  • Conflict of laws 4
  • Costs 3
  • Custody and access 70
  • Division of property 47
  • Divorce 11
  • Ethics 48
  • Evidence 38
  • General 62
  • Guardianship 42
  • Interim relief 9
  • Marriage 2
  • Marriage agreements 5
  • Mediation 13
  • Multiculturalism 22
  • Naming children 1
  • Orders 24
  • Pensions 2
  • Pleadings 42
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 2
  • Professional Responsibility 35
  • Property Agreements 3
  • Property Agreements
  • References to Registrar 1
  • Same-sex couples 7
  • Separation agreements 14
  • Spousal support 35
  • Tax issues 8
  • Unrepresented Litigants 27
• FOI and Privacy 24
• Health Law 15
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution
• Human Rights 133
  • BCHRA 25
  • Charter 32
  • CHRA 2
  • Client Relations 12
  • Discrimination 61
  • Ethics 11
  • Ethics 1
  • General 51
  • Procedure 12
  • Professional Responsibility 13
  • Remedies 15
• Immigration 61
  • Admission 18
  • Appeals 19
  • Business immigrants 14
  • Citizenship 6
  • Client Relations 14
  • Ethics 7
  • Extradition 3
  • Permanent residency 5
  • Policy 9
  • Practice 47
  • Professional Responsibility 9
  • Refugees 16
  • Tax issues 1
  • Visas 5
• Insurance 69
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 5
  • Agents 2
  • Claims 24
  • Contracts 26
  • Damages 5
  • Defences 8
  • Directors and officers insurance 2
  • Duties and liabilities 7
  • Exclusions 14
  • Fire insurance 4
  • Homeowners insurance 7
  • Lawyers liability insurance 2
  • Liability insurance generally 15
  • Life insurance 7
  • Litigation 17
  • Motor vehicle insurance 5
  • Municipal
  • Non Disclosure 3
  • Property and loss of income insurance 4
  • Subrogation 1
• Intellectual Property 7
  • 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 43
  • Arbitration 15
  • Certification and decertification 2
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 6
  • Industrial disputes
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 9
  • Picketing 1
  • Practice 10
  • Successorship 2
  • Unfair labour practices 1
  • Unions 14
• Legal Research and Writing 18
• Legal Support Staff 168
  • Business law for LSS 15
  • Civil litigation for LSS 24
  • Collections for LSS
  • Conveyancing for LSS 22
  • Corporate records for LSS 1
  • Estate administration for LSS 25
  • Family law for LSS 32
  • Foreclosures for LSS
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 23
  • PPSA for LSS
  • Research for LSS 1
  • Securities for LSS
• Litigation 654
  • Aboriginal litigation 8
  • Advocacy skills 39
  • Appeals 17
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
  • Causes of action 44
  • Chambers applications 35
  • Class actions 26
  • Client Relations 23
  • Commercial litigation 29
  • Conflict of laws 3
  • Constitutional 3
  • Costs 40
  • Damages 19
  • Defamation 11
  • Discovery 59
  • Economic Loss
  • Estate litigation 28
  • Ethics 60
  • Evidence 172
  • Experts 107
  • Host Liability
  • Infants 8
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
  • Intellectual property litigation 1
  • Juries 7
  • Jurisdiction 23
  • Labour and employment litigation 10
  • Law Reform 15
  • Limitation of actions 8
  • Limitation Periods 14
  • Municipal 3
  • Orders 8
  • Pleadings 61
  • Practice 127
  • Pre-trial Procedures 29
  • Professional Responsibility 85
  • Real estate litigation 51
  • Remedies 11
  • Reviews 4
  • Securities litigation 2
  • Settlement 22
  • Summary trials 10
  • Tax issues for litigators
  • Tax litigation
  • Torts 26
  • Trials 56
  • Unrepresented Litigants 21
  • Vicarious liability 2
• Maritime Law 1
• Municipal Law 20
  • Actions by and against municipalities
  • Bylaws 3
  • Contracts 2
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management
  • General 14
  • Land use planning 1
  • Licensing
  • Litigation
  • Municipal councils
  • Powers of municipality 3
  • Subdivision 14
  • Zoning 1
• Natural Resources 51
  • Aboriginal rights 15
  • Fisheries law
  • Forestry law 17
  • General 15
  • Mining law 29
  • Oil and gas law 2
  • Water 2
  • Wildlife
• Personal Injury 119
  • Client Relations 9
  • Damages 41
  • Defences 14
  • Ethics 9
  • Family compensation claims 3
  • Host Liability 2
  • Injuries 37
  • Insurance 10
  • Mediation 2
  • Medical malpractice 4
  • Motor vehicle accidents 22
  • Occupiers liability 4
  • Part 7 benefits 13
  • Practice 48
  • Professional Responsibility 16
  • Structured settlements and judgments 6
  • Tax issues 2
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
• Practice Management 246
  • Billing 12
  • Client development 15
  • Client Relations 90
  • Conduct and the Law Society 21
  • Document management 17
  • Employee hiring and retention 18
  • Ethics 129
  • In House Counsel 1
  • Insurance 5
  • Management and organization of firms 24
  • Partnership issues 12
  • Professional Responsibility 8
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
  • Solicitor-client privilege 17
  • Technology 21
  • Trust accounting 2
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 158
  • Client Relations 73
  • Ethics 124
• Real Estate 343
  • Agents and brokers 7
  • Assessment 19
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 20
  • Charges on title 10
  • Client Relations 19
  • Closing procedures 21
  • Commercial leases 19
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 17
  • Construction litigation 15
  • Conveyancing practice 47
  • Development cost charges 2
  • Development--general 24
  • Development rights 7
  • Environmental issues 3
  • Ethics 24
  • Expropriation 2
  • Financing 15
  • Foreclosure 31
  • Government approvals 2
  • Indian Act conveyancing 5
  • Land Title Office 18
  • Legal proceedings 59
  • Manufactured homes 3
  • Mortgages 20
  • Owner developers and strata corporations
  • Professional Responsibility 22
  • Purchase contract 22
  • Residential tenancies 3
  • Searches and investigations 8
  • Site development control 3
  • Statements of adjustments 3
  • Strata corporations 21
  • Strata plans 5
  • Strata properties--general 34
  • Structure of the developer 1
  • Subdivision 10
  • Surveys 2
  • Tax issues 58
  • Title 15
  • Undertakings 6
  • Vancouver Charter 2
  • Zoning 3
• School Law 2
• Secured Transactions 17
  • Chattel mortgages
  • Conflict of laws 1
  • Debtor protection 6
  • Due diligence 1
  • Enforcement 1
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 1
  • General 11
  • Intellectual property 2
  • Loans
  • Mortgages 2
  • Perfection
  • Purchase money security interests
  • Receivers
  • Registration 4
  • Security agreements 7
  • 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 24
  • Conduct and the Law Society 7
  • Conflict of interest 4
  • Ethics 12
  • Solicitor-client privilege 9
• Tax 60
  • 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 4
  • Foreign income
  • General 1
  • Goods and Services Tax 4
  • Income splitting and attribution rules
  • Income tax 8
  • 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) 6
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 7
  • Reorganizations 3
  • Rollovers 3
  • Sales tax 4
  • Shares and shareholders 3
  • Tax litigation 2
  • Tax planning 7
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 26
• Technology Law 28
  • Intellectual property 5
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 3
  • Online contract formation
  • Practice 8
  • Privacy laws 7
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 4
  • Research 2
• Wills Estates and Trusts 231
  • Administration application 13
  • Adult guardianship 20
  • Charitable giving 3
  • Client Relations 33
  • Devolution of assets 21
  • Elder care 52
  • Estate litigation 60
  • Estate planning 96
  • Ethics 16
  • Executors and trustees 21
  • Fiduciary 2
  • General 14
  • Multijurisdictional estates 6
  • Probate application 10
  • Professional Responsibility 26
  • Tax issues 42
  • Trust planning 56
  • Wills 57
• Workers Compensation 25
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 1
  • Claims 21
  • General 13
  • Liability of employer 21
  • Procedure 6
  • Workers Compensation Board 3