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Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 197
  • Business and aboriginal law 28
  • Child protection 36
  • Criminal justice system 21
  • Family law 28
  • General 90
  • Lands and title 72
  • Litigation 17
  • Practice 45
  • Rights 82
  • Self-government 49
  • Tax issues 10
  • Treaty Negotiations 6
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 5
  • Wills and estates 1
• Administrative Law 158
  • Abuse of discretion 2
  • Appellate review 30
  • Charter cases 17
  • Discipline proceedings 14
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 10
  • Judicial review 87
  • Jurisdiction 15
  • Natural justice 13
  • Practice 68
  • Remedies 26
  • Tribunals 52
• ADR 113
  • Arbitration 38
  • Collaborative law 2
  • Judicial review 7
  • Mediation 24
  • Mediation--family law 22
  • Practice 32
• Air Law
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 51
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 10
  • Appeals 2
  • Directors liability 7
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 8
  • General 33
  • Petitions 1
  • Practice 13
  • Priorities 21
  • Proposals 14
  • Receiving orders 6
  • Settlements and preferences 10
  • Trustees 7
• Builders Liens 14
• Business Law 385
  • Acquisitions and mergers 47
  • Amalgamations 2
  • Banking law 4
  • Buying and selling a business 71
  • Capital alterations 5
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 28
  • Client Relations 16
  • Commercial litigation 37
  • Competition law 1
  • Continuations 2
  • Contracts 38
  • Corporate finance 62
  • Corporate governance 52
  • Corporate procedures 31
  • Directors 16
  • Dissolution and restoration 1
  • Ethics 17
  • Extra-provincial companies
  • Fiduciary 4
  • Franchising 2
  • Fraud 10
  • Incorporation and organization 19
  • International 9
  • Partnerships 10
  • Practice 52
  • Privacy 12
  • Professional Responsibility 29
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 16
  • 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 101
  • Anti-terrorism
  • Appeals 3
  • Charter of Rights 22
  • Client Relations 5
  • Defences 9
  • Ethics 8
  • Evidence 37
  • Judicial interim release 3
  • Juries
  • Offences 22
  • Practice 26
  • Professional Responsibility 21
  • Sentencing 17
  • Young offenders 6
• Employment Law 194
  • Benefits 6
  • Client Relations 9
  • Compensation 9
  • Defamation 3
  • Discrimination 49
  • Duties and liabilities 34
  • Employment contracts 37
  • Employment standards 21
  • Ethics 3
  • General 51
  • Mandatory Retirement
  • Occupational health and safety 30
  • Pensions 4
  • Practice 31
  • Privacy 38
  • Professional Responsibility 11
  • Sexual harassment 10
  • Tax issues 3
  • Wrongful dismissal 48
• Environmental Law 30
  • Conservation covenants
  • Contaminated sites 19
  • Endangered species
  • Environmental assessment 6
  • Environmental protection 6
  • Forest practices
  • Insurance 1
  • Liability 11
  • Waste management
• Family Law 413
  • Adoption 15
  • ADR 44
  • Advocacy 1
  • Appeals 3
  • Child protection 78
  • Child support 44
  • Client Relations 75
  • Collaborative law 8
  • Common law spouses 6
  • Conflict of laws 7
  • Costs 8
  • Custody and access 84
  • Division of property 90
  • Divorce 11
  • Ethics 54
  • Evidence 43
  • General 91
  • Guardianship 62
  • Interim relief 13
  • Marriage 5
  • Marriage agreements 8
  • Mediation 21
  • Multiculturalism 23
  • Naming children 2
  • Orders 26
  • Pensions 6
  • Pleadings 55
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 5
  • Professional Responsibility 48
  • Property Agreements 8
  • Property Agreements
  • References to Registrar 2
  • Same-sex couples 9
  • Separation agreements 19
  • Spousal support 53
  • Tax issues 10
  • Unrepresented Litigants 23
• FOI and Privacy 41
• Health Law 25
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution
• Human Rights 163
  • BCHRA 28
  • Charter 47
  • CHRA 3
  • Client Relations 12
  • Discrimination 67
  • Ethics 11
  • Ethics 1
  • General 50
  • Procedure 15
  • Professional Responsibility 13
  • Remedies 16
• Immigration 112
  • Admission 42
  • Appeals 31
  • Business immigrants 31
  • Citizenship 18
  • Client Relations 21
  • Ethics 14
  • Extradition 9
  • Permanent residency 14
  • Policy 31
  • Practice 69
  • Professional Responsibility 14
  • Refugees 35
  • Tax issues 5
  • Visas 14
• Insurance 105
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 5
  • Agents 2
  • Claims 23
  • Contracts 33
  • Damages 4
  • Defences 13
  • Directors and officers insurance 3
  • Duties and liabilities 12
  • Exclusions 23
  • Fire insurance 3
  • Homeowners insurance 9
  • Lawyers liability insurance 3
  • Liability insurance generally 23
  • Life insurance 7
  • Litigation 30
  • Motor vehicle insurance 18
  • Municipal
  • Non Disclosure 4
  • Property and loss of income insurance 6
  • Subrogation 10
• Intellectual Property 13
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 3
  • Computer software and Internet issues 1
  • Copyright 3
  • Licensing 3
  • Patents 4
  • Remedies 1
  • Tax issues
  • Trade-marks 8
  • Trade secrets 3
• Labour Law 56
  • Arbitration 25
  • Certification and decertification 3
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 8
  • Industrial disputes
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 16
  • Picketing 2
  • Practice 12
  • Successorship 2
  • Unfair labour practices 4
  • Unions 20
• Legal Research and Writing 24
• Legal Support Staff 283
  • Business law for LSS 15
  • Civil litigation for LSS 49
  • Collections for LSS
  • Conveyancing for LSS 55
  • Corporate records for LSS 1
  • Estate administration for LSS 33
  • Family law for LSS 71
  • Foreclosures for LSS
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 40
  • PPSA for LSS 2
  • Research for LSS 1
  • Securities for LSS
• Litigation 931
  • 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 34
  • Conflict of laws 3
  • Constitutional 5
  • Costs 63
  • Damages 27
  • Defamation 14
  • Discovery 91
  • Economic Loss 1
  • Estate litigation 46
  • Ethics 69
  • Evidence 224
  • Experts 146
  • 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 196
  • Pre-trial Procedures 50
  • Professional Responsibility 95
  • Real estate litigation 60
  • Remedies 13
  • Reviews 5
  • Securities litigation 7
  • Settlement 30
  • 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
  • Actions by and against municipalities 3
  • Bylaws 9
  • Contracts 3
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management 1
  • General 25
  • Land use planning 7
  • Licensing 2
  • Litigation 2
  • Municipal councils 7
  • Powers of municipality 11
  • Subdivision 14
  • Zoning 3
• Natural Resources 47
  • Aboriginal rights 17
  • Fisheries law
  • Forestry law 11
  • General 15
  • Mining law 30
  • Oil and gas law 5
  • Water 2
  • Wildlife
• Personal Injury 173
  • Client Relations 16
  • Damages 48
  • Defences 17
  • Ethics 13
  • Family compensation claims 3
  • Host Liability 3
  • Injuries 50
  • 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 298
  • Billing 25
  • Client development 24
  • Client Relations 107
  • Conduct and the Law Society 23
  • Document management 33
  • Employee hiring and retention 12
  • Ethics 141
  • In House Counsel 2
  • Insurance 5
  • Management and organization of firms 26
  • Partnership issues 13
  • Professional Responsibility 8
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 3
  • Solicitor-client privilege 19
  • Technology 28
  • Trust accounting 9
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 209
  • Client Relations 99
  • Ethics 164
• Real Estate 472
  • Agents and brokers 11
  • Assessment 19
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 12
  • Charges on title 10
  • Client Relations 28
  • Closing procedures 22
  • Commercial leases 35
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 29
  • Construction litigation 26
  • Conveyancing practice 60
  • Development cost charges 2
  • Development--general 53
  • Development rights 14
  • Environmental issues 6
  • Ethics 33
  • Expropriation 3
  • Financing 22
  • Foreclosure 34
  • Government approvals 5
  • Indian Act conveyancing 9
  • Land Title Office 34
  • Legal proceedings 74
  • Manufactured homes 3
  • Mortgages 29
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 1
  • Professional Responsibility 28
  • Purchase contract 33
  • Residential tenancies 7
  • Searches and investigations 10
  • 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 6
  • Vancouver Charter 3
  • Zoning 5
• 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 91
  • Appeals 2
  • BC Securities Commission 15
  • Disclosure 23
  • Due diligence 2
  • General 37
  • Hearings 4
  • Investigations 7
  • Judicial review 2
  • Local Policy Statements 3
  • National Registration Database
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
  • Offences 10
  • Orders 4
  • Practice 31
  • Private placement 3
  • Public offering 9
  • Regulation 17
  • Searches
  • Stockbrokers
  • Stock exchanges 9
  • Stock options
  • Takeover bids 9
  • Underwriters 1
• Solicitor 52
  • Conduct and the Law Society 17
  • Conflict of interest 10
  • Ethics 24
  • Solicitor-client privilege 17
• 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
  • Intellectual property 6
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 3
  • Online contract formation
  • Practice 25
  • Privacy laws 8
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 5
  • Research 5
• Wills Estates and Trusts 354
  • Administration application 26
  • Adult guardianship 31
  • Charitable giving 2
  • Client Relations 43
  • Devolution of assets 35
  • Elder care 74
  • Estate litigation 82
  • Estate planning 147
  • Ethics 22
  • Executors and trustees 24
  • Fiduciary 2
  • General 38
  • Multijurisdictional estates 6
  • Probate application 20
  • Professional Responsibility 34
  • Tax issues 51
  • Trust planning 71
  • Wills 74
• Workers Compensation 26
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 1
  • Claims 22
  • General 13
  • Liability of employer 21
  • Procedure 6
  • Workers Compensation Board 3