Practice Areas
- Aboriginal Law 134
- Administrative Law 92
- ADR 69
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 14
- Builders Liens 1
-
Business Law
191
- Acquisitions and mergers 32
- Amalgamations 1
- Banking law
- Buying and selling a business 42
- Capital alterations 4
- Charities and non-profit organizations 21
- Client Relations 24
- Commercial litigation 12
- Competition law
- Continuations 1
- Contracts 24
- Corporate finance 27
- Corporate governance 30
- Corporate procedures 30
- Directors 11
- Dissolution and restoration 1
- Ethics 13
- Extra-provincial companies
- Fiduciary 3
- Franchising 8
- Fraud 7
- Incorporation and organization 14
- International 3
- Partnerships 9
- Practice 39
- Privacy 4
- Professional Responsibility 33
- Searches
- Shareholders 7
- Shares 5
- Tax issues 6
- Communications Law
-
Creditors Remedies
36
- Acting for the creditor 21
- Acting for the debtor 13
- Assets subject to attachment 7
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 9
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
- Consumer Protection
- Equitable remedies 3
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 6
- Injunctions and preservation orders 1
- Postjudgment remedies 4
- Prejudgment garnishment 2
- Priorities 2
- Proceeding to judgment 1
- Repairers liens 1
- Searches 1
- Criminal Law 47
-
Employment Law
141
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 7
- Compensation 10
- Defamation 1
- Discrimination 33
- Duties and liabilities 30
- Employment contracts 32
- Employment standards 17
- Ethics 3
- General 48
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 23
- Pensions 1
- Practice 35
- Privacy 20
- Professional Responsibility 11
- Sexual harassment 7
- Tax issues 2
- Wrongful dismissal 31
- Environmental Law 17
-
Family Law
221
- Adoption 12
- ADR 25
- Advocacy
- Appeals 1
- Child protection 53
- Child support 25
- Client Relations 58
- Collaborative law 5
- Common law spouses
- Conflict of laws 3
- Costs 3
- Custody and access 67
- Division of property 33
- Divorce 10
- Ethics 44
- Evidence 30
- General 51
- Guardianship 39
- Interim relief 9
- Marriage 2
- Marriage agreements 4
- Mediation 13
- Multiculturalism 22
- Naming children
- 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 6
- Separation agreements 11
- Spousal support 31
- Tax issues 6
- Unrepresented Litigants 26
- FOI and Privacy 18
- Health Law 6
- Human Rights 103
- Immigration 49
-
Insurance
52
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 4
- Agents 2
- Claims 19
- Contracts 17
- Damages 5
- Defences 7
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 6
- Exclusions 10
- Fire insurance 3
- Homeowners insurance 5
- Lawyers liability insurance 2
- Liability insurance generally 12
- Life insurance 4
- Litigation 15
- Motor vehicle insurance 3
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure 2
- Property and loss of income insurance 2
- Subrogation 1
- Intellectual Property 4
- Labour Law 34
- Legal Research and Writing 12
- Legal Support Staff 135
-
Litigation
417
- Aboriginal litigation 4
- Advocacy skills 36
- Appeals 16
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 3
- Causes of action 23
- Chambers applications 27
- Class actions 15
- Client Relations 17
- Commercial litigation 11
- Conflict of laws
- Constitutional 3
- Costs 30
- Damages 13
- Defamation
- Discovery 34
- Economic Loss
- Estate litigation 14
- Ethics 45
- Evidence 94
- Experts 61
- Host Liability
- Infants 2
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
- Intellectual property litigation 1
- Juries 4
- Jurisdiction 15
- Labour and employment litigation 10
- Law Reform 8
- Limitation of actions 4
- Limitation Periods 2
- Municipal 2
- Orders 7
- Pleadings 42
- Practice 91
- Pre-trial Procedures 24
- Professional Responsibility 73
- Real estate litigation 38
- Remedies 1
- Reviews 3
- Securities litigation 2
- Settlement 12
- Summary trials 7
- Tax issues for litigators
- Tax litigation
- Torts 10
- Trials 40
- Unrepresented Litigants 16
- Vicarious liability 1
- Maritime Law
- Municipal Law 12
- Natural Resources 23
-
Personal Injury
86
- Client Relations 8
- Damages 33
- Defences 8
- Ethics 4
- Family compensation claims 2
- Host Liability 1
- Injuries 24
- Insurance 8
- Mediation 2
- Medical malpractice 1
- Motor vehicle accidents 16
- Occupiers liability 4
- Part 7 benefits 11
- Practice 37
- Professional Responsibility 10
- Structured settlements and judgments 4
- Tax issues 2
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
200
- Billing 11
- Client development 11
- Client Relations 72
- Conduct and the Law Society 18
- Document management 14
- Employee hiring and retention 15
- Ethics 109
- In House Counsel 1
- Insurance 5
- Management and organization of firms 16
- Partnership issues 12
- Professional Responsibility 7
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
- Solicitor-client privilege 15
- Technology 13
- Trust accounting 2
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 125
-
Real Estate
249
- Agents and brokers 6
- Assessment 10
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 11
- Charges on title 7
- Client Relations 11
- 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 15
- Expropriation 1
- Financing 11
- Foreclosure 15
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 4
- Land Title Office 12
- Legal proceedings 45
- Manufactured homes 2
- Mortgages 11
- Owner developers and strata corporations
- Professional Responsibility 16
- 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 45
- Title 12
- Undertakings 4
- Vancouver Charter 2
- Zoning 3
- School Law 2
- Secured Transactions 8
-
Securities
56
- Appeals 2
- BC Securities Commission 8
- Disclosure 17
- Due diligence 2
- General 18
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 6
- Judicial review 2
- Local Policy Statements 3
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
- Offences 8
- Orders 4
- Practice 22
- Private placement 3
- Public offering 7
- Regulation 13
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 8
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 6
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 15
-
Tax
42
- 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 14
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
178
- Administration application 13
- Adult guardianship 15
- Charitable giving 2
- Client Relations 29
- Devolution of assets 14
- Elder care 48
- Estate litigation 34
- Estate planning 73
- Ethics 13
- Executors and trustees 13
- Fiduciary 2
- General 10
- Multijurisdictional estates 5
- Probate application 8
- Professional Responsibility 20
- Tax issues 29
- Trust planning 42
- Wills 49
- Workers Compensation 22
×
PRACTICE AREA
- Aboriginal Law 134
- Administrative Law 92
- ADR 69
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 14
- Builders Liens 1
-
Business Law
191
- Acquisitions and mergers 32
- Amalgamations 1
- Banking law
- Buying and selling a business 42
- Capital alterations 4
- Charities and non-profit organizations 21
- Client Relations 24
- Commercial litigation 12
- Competition law
- Continuations 1
- Contracts 24
- Corporate finance 27
- Corporate governance 30
- Corporate procedures 30
- Directors 11
- Dissolution and restoration 1
- Ethics 13
- Extra-provincial companies
- Fiduciary 3
- Franchising 8
- Fraud 7
- Incorporation and organization 14
- International 3
- Partnerships 9
- Practice 39
- Privacy 4
- Professional Responsibility 33
- Searches
- Shareholders 7
- Shares 5
- Tax issues 6
- Communications Law
-
Creditors Remedies
36
- Acting for the creditor 21
- Acting for the debtor 13
- Assets subject to attachment 7
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 9
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
- Consumer Protection
- Equitable remedies 3
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 6
- Injunctions and preservation orders 1
- Postjudgment remedies 4
- Prejudgment garnishment 2
- Priorities 2
- Proceeding to judgment 1
- Repairers liens 1
- Searches 1
- Criminal Law 47
-
Employment Law
141
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 7
- Compensation 10
- Defamation 1
- Discrimination 33
- Duties and liabilities 30
- Employment contracts 32
- Employment standards 17
- Ethics 3
- General 48
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 23
- Pensions 1
- Practice 35
- Privacy 20
- Professional Responsibility 11
- Sexual harassment 7
- Tax issues 2
- Wrongful dismissal 31
- Environmental Law 17
-
Family Law
221
- Adoption 12
- ADR 25
- Advocacy
- Appeals 1
- Child protection 53
- Child support 25
- Client Relations 58
- Collaborative law 5
- Common law spouses
- Conflict of laws 3
- Costs 3
- Custody and access 67
- Division of property 33
- Divorce 10
- Ethics 44
- Evidence 30
- General 51
- Guardianship 39
- Interim relief 9
- Marriage 2
- Marriage agreements 4
- Mediation 13
- Multiculturalism 22
- Naming children
- 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 6
- Separation agreements 11
- Spousal support 31
- Tax issues 6
- Unrepresented Litigants 26
- FOI and Privacy 18
- Health Law 6
- Human Rights 103
- Immigration 49
-
Insurance
52
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 4
- Agents 2
- Claims 19
- Contracts 17
- Damages 5
- Defences 7
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 6
- Exclusions 10
- Fire insurance 3
- Homeowners insurance 5
- Lawyers liability insurance 2
- Liability insurance generally 12
- Life insurance 4
- Litigation 15
- Motor vehicle insurance 3
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure 2
- Property and loss of income insurance 2
- Subrogation 1
- Intellectual Property 4
- Labour Law 34
- Legal Research and Writing 12
- Legal Support Staff 135
-
Litigation
417
- Aboriginal litigation 4
- Advocacy skills 36
- Appeals 16
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 3
- Causes of action 23
- Chambers applications 27
- Class actions 15
- Client Relations 17
- Commercial litigation 11
- Conflict of laws
- Constitutional 3
- Costs 30
- Damages 13
- Defamation
- Discovery 34
- Economic Loss
- Estate litigation 14
- Ethics 45
- Evidence 94
- Experts 61
- Host Liability
- Infants 2
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
- Intellectual property litigation 1
- Juries 4
- Jurisdiction 15
- Labour and employment litigation 10
- Law Reform 8
- Limitation of actions 4
- Limitation Periods 2
- Municipal 2
- Orders 7
- Pleadings 42
- Practice 91
- Pre-trial Procedures 24
- Professional Responsibility 73
- Real estate litigation 38
- Remedies 1
- Reviews 3
- Securities litigation 2
- Settlement 12
- Summary trials 7
- Tax issues for litigators
- Tax litigation
- Torts 10
- Trials 40
- Unrepresented Litigants 16
- Vicarious liability 1
- Maritime Law
- Municipal Law 12
- Natural Resources 23
-
Personal Injury
86
- Client Relations 8
- Damages 33
- Defences 8
- Ethics 4
- Family compensation claims 2
- Host Liability 1
- Injuries 24
- Insurance 8
- Mediation 2
- Medical malpractice 1
- Motor vehicle accidents 16
- Occupiers liability 4
- Part 7 benefits 11
- Practice 37
- Professional Responsibility 10
- Structured settlements and judgments 4
- Tax issues 2
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
200
- Billing 11
- Client development 11
- Client Relations 72
- Conduct and the Law Society 18
- Document management 14
- Employee hiring and retention 15
- Ethics 109
- In House Counsel 1
- Insurance 5
- Management and organization of firms 16
- Partnership issues 12
- Professional Responsibility 7
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
- Solicitor-client privilege 15
- Technology 13
- Trust accounting 2
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 125
-
Real Estate
249
- Agents and brokers 6
- Assessment 10
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 11
- Charges on title 7
- Client Relations 11
- 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 15
- Expropriation 1
- Financing 11
- Foreclosure 15
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 4
- Land Title Office 12
- Legal proceedings 45
- Manufactured homes 2
- Mortgages 11
- Owner developers and strata corporations
- Professional Responsibility 16
- 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 45
- Title 12
- Undertakings 4
- Vancouver Charter 2
- Zoning 3
- School Law 2
- Secured Transactions 8
-
Securities
56
- Appeals 2
- BC Securities Commission 8
- Disclosure 17
- Due diligence 2
- General 18
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 6
- Judicial review 2
- Local Policy Statements 3
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
- Offences 8
- Orders 4
- Practice 22
- Private placement 3
- Public offering 7
- Regulation 13
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 8
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 6
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 15
-
Tax
42
- 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 14
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
178
- Administration application 13
- Adult guardianship 15
- Charitable giving 2
- Client Relations 29
- Devolution of assets 14
- Elder care 48
- Estate litigation 34
- Estate planning 73
- Ethics 13
- Executors and trustees 13
- Fiduciary 2
- General 10
- Multijurisdictional estates 5
- Probate application 8
- Professional Responsibility 20
- Tax issues 29
- Trust planning 42
- Wills 49
- Workers Compensation 22
☰ PRACTICE AREA