Practice Areas
- Aboriginal Law 167
- Administrative Law 144
- ADR 100
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 40
- 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
-
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
-
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
- Human Rights 137
- Immigration 95
-
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
- Labour Law 50
- Legal Research and Writing 23
- Legal Support Staff 266
-
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
- Natural Resources 43
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
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- Aboriginal Law 167
- Administrative Law 144
- ADR 100
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 40
- 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
-
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
-
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
- Human Rights 137
- Immigration 95
-
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
- Labour Law 50
- Legal Research and Writing 23
- Legal Support Staff 266
-
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
- Natural Resources 43
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
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
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