Practice Areas
- Aboriginal Law 111
- Administrative Law 83
- ADR 68
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 13
- Builders Liens
-
Business Law
184
- 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 23
- Corporate finance 26
- Corporate governance 30
- Corporate procedures 30
- Directors 10
- Dissolution and restoration 1
- Ethics 12
- Extra-provincial companies
- Fiduciary 3
- Franchising 8
- Fraud 6
- Incorporation and organization 14
- International 3
- Partnerships 9
- Practice 36
- Privacy 3
- Professional Responsibility 31
- Searches
- Shareholders 6
- Shares 5
- Tax issues 6
- Communications Law
-
Creditors Remedies
33
- Acting for the creditor 18
- Acting for the debtor 10
- 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 5
- Injunctions and preservation orders 1
- Postjudgment remedies 4
- Prejudgment garnishment 2
- Priorities 2
- Proceeding to judgment 1
- Repairers liens 1
- Searches 1
- Criminal Law 48
-
Employment Law
137
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 7
- Compensation 10
- Defamation 1
- Discrimination 32
- Duties and liabilities 30
- Employment contracts 31
- Employment standards 16
- Ethics 3
- General 47
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 24
- Pensions 1
- Practice 34
- Privacy 19
- Professional Responsibility 11
- Sexual harassment 6
- Tax issues 2
- Wrongful dismissal 30
- Environmental Law 16
-
Family Law
210
- Adoption 12
- ADR 25
- Advocacy
- Appeals 1
- Child protection 51
- Child support 25
- Client Relations 55
- Collaborative law 5
- Common law spouses
- Conflict of laws 3
- Costs 3
- Custody and access 67
- Division of property 32
- Divorce 10
- Ethics 42
- Evidence 30
- General 48
- Guardianship 38
- Interim relief 9
- Marriage 2
- Marriage agreements 3
- Mediation 13
- Multiculturalism 22
- Naming children
- Orders 23
- Pensions 2
- Pleadings 40
- Pre-nuptial agreements 1
- Professional Responsibility 30
- Property Agreements 1
- Property Agreements
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 6
- Separation agreements 11
- Spousal support 31
- Tax issues 6
- Unrepresented Litigants 22
- FOI and Privacy 17
- Health Law 6
- Human Rights 98
- Immigration 44
-
Insurance
48
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 3
- Agents 2
- Claims 18
- Contracts 17
- Damages 5
- Defences 6
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 4
- Exclusions 9
- Fire insurance 3
- Homeowners insurance 4
- Lawyers liability insurance 2
- Liability insurance generally 11
- Life insurance 1
- Litigation 12
- Motor vehicle insurance 1
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure 1
- Property and loss of income insurance 2
- Subrogation 1
- Intellectual Property 4
- Labour Law 34
- Legal Research and Writing 11
- Legal Support Staff 132
-
Litigation
383
- Aboriginal litigation 4
- Advocacy skills 35
- Appeals 15
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 3
- Causes of action 20
- Chambers applications 23
- Class actions 13
- Client Relations 14
- Commercial litigation 11
- Conflict of laws
- Constitutional 3
- Costs 26
- Damages 12
- Defamation
- Discovery 27
- Economic Loss
- Estate litigation 14
- Ethics 32
- Evidence 85
- Experts 52
- Host Liability
- Infants
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
- Intellectual property litigation 1
- Juries 1
- Jurisdiction 16
- Labour and employment litigation 10
- Law Reform 8
- Limitation of actions 4
- Limitation Periods 2
- Municipal 2
- Orders 7
- Pleadings 38
- Practice 76
- Pre-trial Procedures 21
- Professional Responsibility 63
- Real estate litigation 37
- Remedies 1
- Reviews 3
- Securities litigation
- Settlement 9
- Summary trials 5
- Tax issues for litigators
- Tax litigation
- Torts 10
- Trials 36
- Unrepresented Litigants 11
- Vicarious liability 1
- Maritime Law
- Municipal Law 12
- Natural Resources 22
-
Personal Injury
78
- Client Relations 5
- Damages 30
- Defences 6
- Ethics 1
- Family compensation claims 1
- Host Liability 1
- Injuries 20
- Insurance 5
- Mediation 2
- Medical malpractice
- Motor vehicle accidents 12
- Occupiers liability 2
- Part 7 benefits 8
- Practice 32
- Professional Responsibility 6
- Structured settlements and judgments 4
- Tax issues 2
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
163
- Billing 7
- Client development 11
- Client Relations 57
- Conduct and the Law Society 15
- Document management 11
- Employee hiring and retention 15
- Ethics 93
- In House Counsel 1
- Insurance 4
- Management and organization of firms 15
- Partnership issues 12
- Professional Responsibility 4
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 1
- Solicitor-client privilege 13
- Technology 12
- Trust accounting 2
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 96
-
Real Estate
237
- Agents and brokers 6
- Assessment 10
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 10
- Charges on title 7
- Client Relations 7
- Closing procedures 17
- Commercial leases 16
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 12
- Construction litigation 10
- Conveyancing practice 27
- Development cost charges 2
- Development--general 19
- Development rights 7
- Environmental issues 2
- Ethics 10
- Expropriation 1
- Financing 11
- Foreclosure 12
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 4
- Land Title Office 12
- Legal proceedings 44
- Manufactured homes 2
- Mortgages 11
- Owner developers and strata corporations
- Professional Responsibility 13
- Purchase contract 15
- Residential tenancies 2
- Searches and investigations 4
- Site development control 3
- Statements of adjustments 2
- Strata corporations 20
- Strata plans 4
- Strata properties--general 27
- 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 7
-
Securities
52
- Appeals 2
- BC Securities Commission 6
- Disclosure 16
- Due diligence 1
- General 17
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 5
- Judicial review 1
- Local Policy Statements 3
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
- Offences 6
- Orders 4
- Practice 22
- Private placement 3
- Public offering 7
- Regulation 13
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 8
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 5
- Underwriters
- Solicitor 10
-
Tax
41
- 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 16
- Technology Law 13
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
174
- Administration application 13
- Adult guardianship 12
- Charitable giving 1
- Client Relations 27
- Devolution of assets 13
- Elder care 47
- Estate litigation 34
- Estate planning 71
- Ethics 11
- Executors and trustees 13
- Fiduciary 2
- General 10
- Multijurisdictional estates 5
- Probate application 8
- Professional Responsibility 19
- Tax issues 28
- Trust planning 41
- Wills 48
- Workers Compensation 21
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PRACTICE AREA
- Aboriginal Law 111
- Administrative Law 83
- ADR 68
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 13
- Builders Liens
-
Business Law
184
- 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 23
- Corporate finance 26
- Corporate governance 30
- Corporate procedures 30
- Directors 10
- Dissolution and restoration 1
- Ethics 12
- Extra-provincial companies
- Fiduciary 3
- Franchising 8
- Fraud 6
- Incorporation and organization 14
- International 3
- Partnerships 9
- Practice 36
- Privacy 3
- Professional Responsibility 31
- Searches
- Shareholders 6
- Shares 5
- Tax issues 6
- Communications Law
-
Creditors Remedies
33
- Acting for the creditor 18
- Acting for the debtor 10
- 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 5
- Injunctions and preservation orders 1
- Postjudgment remedies 4
- Prejudgment garnishment 2
- Priorities 2
- Proceeding to judgment 1
- Repairers liens 1
- Searches 1
- Criminal Law 48
-
Employment Law
137
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 7
- Compensation 10
- Defamation 1
- Discrimination 32
- Duties and liabilities 30
- Employment contracts 31
- Employment standards 16
- Ethics 3
- General 47
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 24
- Pensions 1
- Practice 34
- Privacy 19
- Professional Responsibility 11
- Sexual harassment 6
- Tax issues 2
- Wrongful dismissal 30
- Environmental Law 16
-
Family Law
210
- Adoption 12
- ADR 25
- Advocacy
- Appeals 1
- Child protection 51
- Child support 25
- Client Relations 55
- Collaborative law 5
- Common law spouses
- Conflict of laws 3
- Costs 3
- Custody and access 67
- Division of property 32
- Divorce 10
- Ethics 42
- Evidence 30
- General 48
- Guardianship 38
- Interim relief 9
- Marriage 2
- Marriage agreements 3
- Mediation 13
- Multiculturalism 22
- Naming children
- Orders 23
- Pensions 2
- Pleadings 40
- Pre-nuptial agreements 1
- Professional Responsibility 30
- Property Agreements 1
- Property Agreements
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 6
- Separation agreements 11
- Spousal support 31
- Tax issues 6
- Unrepresented Litigants 22
- FOI and Privacy 17
- Health Law 6
- Human Rights 98
- Immigration 44
-
Insurance
48
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 3
- Agents 2
- Claims 18
- Contracts 17
- Damages 5
- Defences 6
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 4
- Exclusions 9
- Fire insurance 3
- Homeowners insurance 4
- Lawyers liability insurance 2
- Liability insurance generally 11
- Life insurance 1
- Litigation 12
- Motor vehicle insurance 1
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure 1
- Property and loss of income insurance 2
- Subrogation 1
- Intellectual Property 4
- Labour Law 34
- Legal Research and Writing 11
- Legal Support Staff 132
-
Litigation
383
- Aboriginal litigation 4
- Advocacy skills 35
- Appeals 15
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 3
- Causes of action 20
- Chambers applications 23
- Class actions 13
- Client Relations 14
- Commercial litigation 11
- Conflict of laws
- Constitutional 3
- Costs 26
- Damages 12
- Defamation
- Discovery 27
- Economic Loss
- Estate litigation 14
- Ethics 32
- Evidence 85
- Experts 52
- Host Liability
- Infants
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
- Intellectual property litigation 1
- Juries 1
- Jurisdiction 16
- Labour and employment litigation 10
- Law Reform 8
- Limitation of actions 4
- Limitation Periods 2
- Municipal 2
- Orders 7
- Pleadings 38
- Practice 76
- Pre-trial Procedures 21
- Professional Responsibility 63
- Real estate litigation 37
- Remedies 1
- Reviews 3
- Securities litigation
- Settlement 9
- Summary trials 5
- Tax issues for litigators
- Tax litigation
- Torts 10
- Trials 36
- Unrepresented Litigants 11
- Vicarious liability 1
- Maritime Law
- Municipal Law 12
- Natural Resources 22
-
Personal Injury
78
- Client Relations 5
- Damages 30
- Defences 6
- Ethics 1
- Family compensation claims 1
- Host Liability 1
- Injuries 20
- Insurance 5
- Mediation 2
- Medical malpractice
- Motor vehicle accidents 12
- Occupiers liability 2
- Part 7 benefits 8
- Practice 32
- Professional Responsibility 6
- Structured settlements and judgments 4
- Tax issues 2
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
163
- Billing 7
- Client development 11
- Client Relations 57
- Conduct and the Law Society 15
- Document management 11
- Employee hiring and retention 15
- Ethics 93
- In House Counsel 1
- Insurance 4
- Management and organization of firms 15
- Partnership issues 12
- Professional Responsibility 4
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 1
- Solicitor-client privilege 13
- Technology 12
- Trust accounting 2
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 96
-
Real Estate
237
- Agents and brokers 6
- Assessment 10
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 10
- Charges on title 7
- Client Relations 7
- Closing procedures 17
- Commercial leases 16
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 12
- Construction litigation 10
- Conveyancing practice 27
- Development cost charges 2
- Development--general 19
- Development rights 7
- Environmental issues 2
- Ethics 10
- Expropriation 1
- Financing 11
- Foreclosure 12
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 4
- Land Title Office 12
- Legal proceedings 44
- Manufactured homes 2
- Mortgages 11
- Owner developers and strata corporations
- Professional Responsibility 13
- Purchase contract 15
- Residential tenancies 2
- Searches and investigations 4
- Site development control 3
- Statements of adjustments 2
- Strata corporations 20
- Strata plans 4
- Strata properties--general 27
- 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 7
-
Securities
52
- Appeals 2
- BC Securities Commission 6
- Disclosure 16
- Due diligence 1
- General 17
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 5
- Judicial review 1
- Local Policy Statements 3
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
- Offences 6
- Orders 4
- Practice 22
- Private placement 3
- Public offering 7
- Regulation 13
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 8
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 5
- Underwriters
- Solicitor 10
-
Tax
41
- 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 16
- Technology Law 13
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
174
- Administration application 13
- Adult guardianship 12
- Charitable giving 1
- Client Relations 27
- Devolution of assets 13
- Elder care 47
- Estate litigation 34
- Estate planning 71
- Ethics 11
- Executors and trustees 13
- Fiduciary 2
- General 10
- Multijurisdictional estates 5
- Probate application 8
- Professional Responsibility 19
- Tax issues 28
- Trust planning 41
- Wills 48
- Workers Compensation 21
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