Practice Areas
- Aboriginal Law 183
- Administrative Law 158
- ADR 111
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 49
- Builders Liens 14
-
Business Law
372
- 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 15
- Commercial litigation 36
- Competition law 1
- Continuations 1
- Contracts 36
- Corporate finance 62
- Corporate governance 45
- Corporate procedures 30
- Directors 11
- Dissolution and restoration
- Ethics 15
- Extra-provincial companies
- Fiduciary 4
- Franchising 2
- Fraud 8
- Incorporation and organization 19
- International 8
- Partnerships 10
- Practice 47
- Privacy 12
- Professional Responsibility 28
- Searches
- Shareholders 15
- Shares 8
- Tax issues 29
- Communications Law 10
-
Creditors Remedies
76
- Acting for the creditor 32
- Acting for the debtor 29
- Assets subject to attachment 8
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 14
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 1
- Consumer Protection
- Equitable remedies 3
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 11
- Injunctions and preservation orders 3
- Postjudgment remedies 6
- Prejudgment garnishment 4
- Priorities 17
- Proceeding to judgment 3
- Repairers liens
- Searches 2
- Criminal Law 100
-
Employment Law
192
- Benefits 5
- Client Relations 8
- Compensation 8
- Defamation 3
- Discrimination 48
- Duties and liabilities 33
- Employment contracts 36
- Employment standards 20
- Ethics 3
- General 50
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 30
- Pensions 4
- Practice 30
- Privacy 37
- Professional Responsibility 10
- Sexual harassment 10
- Tax issues 3
- Wrongful dismissal 47
- Environmental Law 28
-
Family Law
396
- 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 76
- 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 13
- Spousal support 52
- Tax issues 10
- Unrepresented Litigants 17
- FOI and Privacy 41
- Health Law 25
- Human Rights 156
- Immigration 105
-
Insurance
102
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 4
- Agents 2
- Claims 21
- Contracts 31
- Damages 2
- Defences 13
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 12
- Exclusions 21
- Fire insurance 3
- Homeowners insurance 9
- Lawyers liability insurance 3
- Liability insurance generally 22
- Life insurance 7
- Litigation 29
- Motor vehicle insurance 18
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure 4
- Property and loss of income insurance 4
- Subrogation 10
- Intellectual Property 13
- Labour Law 56
- Legal Research and Writing 24
- Legal Support Staff 275
-
Litigation
918
- Aboriginal litigation 8
- Advocacy skills 49
- Appeals 24
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
- Causes of action 58
- Chambers applications 36
- Class actions 43
- Client Relations 41
- Commercial litigation 33
- Conflict of laws 3
- Constitutional 5
- Costs 63
- Damages 27
- Defamation 14
- Discovery 86
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 46
- Ethics 69
- Evidence 219
- Experts 144
- Host Liability
- Infants 11
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance
- Intellectual property litigation 1
- Juries 8
- Jurisdiction 35
- Labour and employment litigation 14
- Law Reform 20
- Limitation of actions 12
- Limitation Periods 15
- Municipal 4
- Orders 13
- Pleadings 80
- Practice 195
- Pre-trial Procedures 50
- Professional Responsibility 91
- Real estate litigation 58
- Remedies 13
- Reviews 4
- Securities litigation 7
- Settlement 29
- Summary trials 16
- Tax issues for litigators
- Tax litigation
- Torts 39
- Trials 74
- Unrepresented Litigants 30
- Vicarious liability 2
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 40
- Natural Resources 47
-
Personal Injury
172
- Client Relations 16
- Damages 48
- Defences 17
- Ethics 13
- Family compensation claims 3
- Host Liability 3
- Injuries 49
- Insurance 14
- Mediation 4
- Medical malpractice 4
- Motor vehicle accidents 33
- Occupiers liability 5
- Part 7 benefits 15
- Practice 69
- Professional Responsibility 23
- Structured settlements and judgments 8
- Tax issues 3
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
272
- Billing 25
- Client development 21
- Client Relations 99
- Conduct and the Law Society 21
- Document management 32
- Employee hiring and retention 11
- Ethics 124
- In House Counsel 1
- Insurance 5
- Management and organization of firms 25
- Partnership issues 12
- Professional Responsibility 8
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 3
- Solicitor-client privilege 16
- Technology 26
- Trust accounting 9
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 193
-
Real Estate
469
- Agents and brokers 11
- Assessment 19
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 12
- Charges on title 10
- Client Relations 27
- Closing procedures 21
- Commercial leases 34
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 29
- Construction litigation 26
- Conveyancing practice 58
- Development cost charges 2
- Development--general 53
- Development rights 14
- Environmental issues 6
- Ethics 33
- Expropriation 3
- Financing 22
- Foreclosure 34
- Government approvals 4
- Indian Act conveyancing 9
- Land Title Office 33
- Legal proceedings 72
- Manufactured homes 2
- Mortgages 29
- Owner developers and strata corporations 1
- Professional Responsibility 27
- Purchase contract 32
- Residential tenancies 7
- Searches and investigations 9
- Site development control 3
- Statements of adjustments 3
- Strata corporations 27
- Strata plans 11
- Strata properties--general 55
- Structure of the developer 2
- Subdivision 22
- Surveys 11
- Tax issues 67
- Title 22
- Undertakings 5
- Vancouver Charter 3
- Zoning 5
- School Law 2
- Secured Transactions 17
-
Securities
80
- Appeals 1
- BC Securities Commission 12
- Disclosure 16
- Due diligence 2
- General 30
- Hearings 3
- Investigations 5
- Judicial review 2
- Local Policy Statements 2
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
- Offences 8
- Orders 2
- Practice 25
- Private placement 3
- Public offering 8
- Regulation 13
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 8
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 6
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 52
-
Tax
103
- Aboriginal tax issues 5
- Anti-avoidance rules 1
- Appeals 1
- Audits 2
- Buying and selling a business 4
- Capital gains 10
- Charities and non-profit organizations 2
- Collection practices and procedures 1
- Corporate 26
- Family law tax issues 5
- Foreign income 1
- General 11
- Goods and Services Tax 11
- Income splitting and attribution rules
- Income tax 9
- Intellectual property tax issues
- Lawyers and law firms 2
- Offshore taxation 1
- Partnership 3
- Pensions
- Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 1
- Practice 8
- Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 7
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 9
- Reorganizations 4
- Rollovers 5
- Sales tax 9
- Shares and shareholders 6
- Tax litigation 2
- Tax planning 7
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 36
- Technology Law 54
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
340
- Administration application 25
- Adult guardianship 31
- Charitable giving 2
- Client Relations 41
- Devolution of assets 34
- Elder care 72
- Estate litigation 78
- Estate planning 136
- Ethics 22
- Executors and trustees 24
- Fiduciary 2
- General 38
- Multijurisdictional estates 6
- Probate application 19
- Professional Responsibility 34
- Tax issues 50
- Trust planning 67
- Wills 71
- Workers Compensation 25
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PRACTICE AREA
- Aboriginal Law 183
- Administrative Law 158
- ADR 111
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 49
- Builders Liens 14
-
Business Law
372
- 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 15
- Commercial litigation 36
- Competition law 1
- Continuations 1
- Contracts 36
- Corporate finance 62
- Corporate governance 45
- Corporate procedures 30
- Directors 11
- Dissolution and restoration
- Ethics 15
- Extra-provincial companies
- Fiduciary 4
- Franchising 2
- Fraud 8
- Incorporation and organization 19
- International 8
- Partnerships 10
- Practice 47
- Privacy 12
- Professional Responsibility 28
- Searches
- Shareholders 15
- Shares 8
- Tax issues 29
- Communications Law 10
-
Creditors Remedies
76
- Acting for the creditor 32
- Acting for the debtor 29
- Assets subject to attachment 8
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 14
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 1
- Consumer Protection
- Equitable remedies 3
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 11
- Injunctions and preservation orders 3
- Postjudgment remedies 6
- Prejudgment garnishment 4
- Priorities 17
- Proceeding to judgment 3
- Repairers liens
- Searches 2
- Criminal Law 100
-
Employment Law
192
- Benefits 5
- Client Relations 8
- Compensation 8
- Defamation 3
- Discrimination 48
- Duties and liabilities 33
- Employment contracts 36
- Employment standards 20
- Ethics 3
- General 50
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 30
- Pensions 4
- Practice 30
- Privacy 37
- Professional Responsibility 10
- Sexual harassment 10
- Tax issues 3
- Wrongful dismissal 47
- Environmental Law 28
-
Family Law
396
- 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 76
- 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 13
- Spousal support 52
- Tax issues 10
- Unrepresented Litigants 17
- FOI and Privacy 41
- Health Law 25
- Human Rights 156
- Immigration 105
-
Insurance
102
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 4
- Agents 2
- Claims 21
- Contracts 31
- Damages 2
- Defences 13
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 12
- Exclusions 21
- Fire insurance 3
- Homeowners insurance 9
- Lawyers liability insurance 3
- Liability insurance generally 22
- Life insurance 7
- Litigation 29
- Motor vehicle insurance 18
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure 4
- Property and loss of income insurance 4
- Subrogation 10
- Intellectual Property 13
- Labour Law 56
- Legal Research and Writing 24
- Legal Support Staff 275
-
Litigation
918
- Aboriginal litigation 8
- Advocacy skills 49
- Appeals 24
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
- Causes of action 58
- Chambers applications 36
- Class actions 43
- Client Relations 41
- Commercial litigation 33
- Conflict of laws 3
- Constitutional 5
- Costs 63
- Damages 27
- Defamation 14
- Discovery 86
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 46
- Ethics 69
- Evidence 219
- Experts 144
- Host Liability
- Infants 11
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance
- Intellectual property litigation 1
- Juries 8
- Jurisdiction 35
- Labour and employment litigation 14
- Law Reform 20
- Limitation of actions 12
- Limitation Periods 15
- Municipal 4
- Orders 13
- Pleadings 80
- Practice 195
- Pre-trial Procedures 50
- Professional Responsibility 91
- Real estate litigation 58
- Remedies 13
- Reviews 4
- Securities litigation 7
- Settlement 29
- Summary trials 16
- Tax issues for litigators
- Tax litigation
- Torts 39
- Trials 74
- Unrepresented Litigants 30
- Vicarious liability 2
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 40
- Natural Resources 47
-
Personal Injury
172
- Client Relations 16
- Damages 48
- Defences 17
- Ethics 13
- Family compensation claims 3
- Host Liability 3
- Injuries 49
- Insurance 14
- Mediation 4
- Medical malpractice 4
- Motor vehicle accidents 33
- Occupiers liability 5
- Part 7 benefits 15
- Practice 69
- Professional Responsibility 23
- Structured settlements and judgments 8
- Tax issues 3
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
272
- Billing 25
- Client development 21
- Client Relations 99
- Conduct and the Law Society 21
- Document management 32
- Employee hiring and retention 11
- Ethics 124
- In House Counsel 1
- Insurance 5
- Management and organization of firms 25
- Partnership issues 12
- Professional Responsibility 8
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 3
- Solicitor-client privilege 16
- Technology 26
- Trust accounting 9
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 193
-
Real Estate
469
- Agents and brokers 11
- Assessment 19
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 12
- Charges on title 10
- Client Relations 27
- Closing procedures 21
- Commercial leases 34
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 29
- Construction litigation 26
- Conveyancing practice 58
- Development cost charges 2
- Development--general 53
- Development rights 14
- Environmental issues 6
- Ethics 33
- Expropriation 3
- Financing 22
- Foreclosure 34
- Government approvals 4
- Indian Act conveyancing 9
- Land Title Office 33
- Legal proceedings 72
- Manufactured homes 2
- Mortgages 29
- Owner developers and strata corporations 1
- Professional Responsibility 27
- Purchase contract 32
- Residential tenancies 7
- Searches and investigations 9
- Site development control 3
- Statements of adjustments 3
- Strata corporations 27
- Strata plans 11
- Strata properties--general 55
- Structure of the developer 2
- Subdivision 22
- Surveys 11
- Tax issues 67
- Title 22
- Undertakings 5
- Vancouver Charter 3
- Zoning 5
- School Law 2
- Secured Transactions 17
-
Securities
80
- Appeals 1
- BC Securities Commission 12
- Disclosure 16
- Due diligence 2
- General 30
- Hearings 3
- Investigations 5
- Judicial review 2
- Local Policy Statements 2
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
- Offences 8
- Orders 2
- Practice 25
- Private placement 3
- Public offering 8
- Regulation 13
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 8
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 6
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 52
-
Tax
103
- Aboriginal tax issues 5
- Anti-avoidance rules 1
- Appeals 1
- Audits 2
- Buying and selling a business 4
- Capital gains 10
- Charities and non-profit organizations 2
- Collection practices and procedures 1
- Corporate 26
- Family law tax issues 5
- Foreign income 1
- General 11
- Goods and Services Tax 11
- Income splitting and attribution rules
- Income tax 9
- Intellectual property tax issues
- Lawyers and law firms 2
- Offshore taxation 1
- Partnership 3
- Pensions
- Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 1
- Practice 8
- Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 7
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 9
- Reorganizations 4
- Rollovers 5
- Sales tax 9
- Shares and shareholders 6
- Tax litigation 2
- Tax planning 7
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 36
- Technology Law 54
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
340
- Administration application 25
- Adult guardianship 31
- Charitable giving 2
- Client Relations 41
- Devolution of assets 34
- Elder care 72
- Estate litigation 78
- Estate planning 136
- Ethics 22
- Executors and trustees 24
- Fiduciary 2
- General 38
- Multijurisdictional estates 6
- Probate application 19
- Professional Responsibility 34
- Tax issues 50
- Trust planning 67
- Wills 71
- Workers Compensation 25
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