Practice Areas
- Aboriginal Law 178
- Administrative Law 114
- ADR 100
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 26
- Builders Liens 9
-
Business Law
258
- Acquisitions and mergers 32
- Amalgamations 1
- Banking law 4
- Buying and selling a business 52
- Capital alterations 4
- Charities and non-profit organizations 21
- Client Relations 27
- Commercial litigation 27
- Competition law
- Continuations 2
- Contracts 37
- Corporate finance 39
- Corporate governance 35
- Corporate procedures 35
- Directors 12
- Dissolution and restoration 1
- Ethics 15
- Extra-provincial companies
- Fiduciary 4
- Franchising 8
- Fraud 8
- Incorporation and organization 14
- International 4
- Partnerships 9
- Practice 42
- Privacy 4
- Professional Responsibility 37
- Searches
- Shareholders 8
- Shares 5
- Tax issues 7
- Communications Law 10
-
Creditors Remedies
77
- Acting for the creditor 40
- Acting for the debtor 31
- Assets subject to attachment 10
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 12
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
- Consumer Protection
- Equitable remedies 3
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 9
- Injunctions and preservation orders 3
- Postjudgment remedies 7
- Prejudgment garnishment 4
- Priorities 9
- Proceeding to judgment 4
- Repairers liens 1
- Searches 2
- Criminal Law 91
-
Employment Law
175
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 8
- Compensation 13
- Defamation 3
- Discrimination 41
- Duties and liabilities 36
- Employment contracts 38
- Employment standards 25
- Ethics 4
- General 54
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 27
- Pensions 3
- Practice 35
- Privacy 26
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Sexual harassment 9
- Tax issues 3
- Wrongful dismissal 47
- Environmental Law 26
-
Family Law
271
- Adoption 14
- ADR 26
- Advocacy
- Appeals 1
- Child protection 71
- Child support 28
- Client Relations 63
- Collaborative law 5
- Common law spouses
- Conflict of laws 4
- Costs 3
- Custody and access 70
- Division of property 47
- Divorce 11
- Ethics 48
- Evidence 38
- General 62
- Guardianship 42
- Interim relief 9
- Marriage 2
- Marriage agreements 5
- Mediation 13
- Multiculturalism 22
- Naming children 1
- Orders 24
- Pensions 2
- Pleadings 42
- Pre-nuptial agreements 2
- Professional Responsibility 35
- Property Agreements 3
- Property Agreements
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 7
- Separation agreements 14
- Spousal support 35
- Tax issues 8
- Unrepresented Litigants 27
- FOI and Privacy 24
- Health Law 15
- Human Rights 133
- Immigration 61
-
Insurance
69
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 5
- Agents 2
- Claims 24
- Contracts 26
- Damages 5
- Defences 8
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 7
- Exclusions 14
- Fire insurance 4
- Homeowners insurance 7
- Lawyers liability insurance 2
- Liability insurance generally 15
- Life insurance 7
- Litigation 17
- Motor vehicle insurance 5
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure 3
- Property and loss of income insurance 4
- Subrogation 1
- Intellectual Property 7
- Labour Law 43
- Legal Research and Writing 18
- Legal Support Staff 168
-
Litigation
654
- Aboriginal litigation 8
- Advocacy skills 39
- Appeals 17
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 44
- Chambers applications 35
- Class actions 26
- Client Relations 23
- Commercial litigation 29
- Conflict of laws 3
- Constitutional 3
- Costs 40
- Damages 19
- Defamation 11
- Discovery 59
- Economic Loss
- Estate litigation 28
- Ethics 60
- Evidence 172
- Experts 107
- Host Liability
- Infants 8
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
- Intellectual property litigation 1
- Juries 7
- Jurisdiction 23
- Labour and employment litigation 10
- Law Reform 15
- Limitation of actions 8
- Limitation Periods 14
- Municipal 3
- Orders 8
- Pleadings 61
- Practice 127
- Pre-trial Procedures 29
- Professional Responsibility 85
- Real estate litigation 51
- Remedies 11
- Reviews 4
- Securities litigation 2
- Settlement 22
- Summary trials 10
- Tax issues for litigators
- Tax litigation
- Torts 26
- Trials 56
- Unrepresented Litigants 21
- Vicarious liability 2
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 20
- Natural Resources 51
-
Personal Injury
119
- Client Relations 9
- Damages 41
- Defences 14
- Ethics 9
- Family compensation claims 3
- Host Liability 2
- Injuries 37
- Insurance 10
- Mediation 2
- Medical malpractice 4
- Motor vehicle accidents 22
- Occupiers liability 4
- Part 7 benefits 13
- Practice 48
- Professional Responsibility 16
- Structured settlements and judgments 6
- Tax issues 2
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
246
- Billing 12
- Client development 15
- Client Relations 90
- Conduct and the Law Society 21
- Document management 17
- Employee hiring and retention 18
- Ethics 129
- In House Counsel 1
- Insurance 5
- Management and organization of firms 24
- Partnership issues 12
- Professional Responsibility 8
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
- Solicitor-client privilege 17
- Technology 21
- Trust accounting 2
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 158
-
Real Estate
343
- Agents and brokers 7
- Assessment 19
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 20
- Charges on title 10
- Client Relations 19
- Closing procedures 21
- Commercial leases 19
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 17
- Construction litigation 15
- Conveyancing practice 47
- Development cost charges 2
- Development--general 24
- Development rights 7
- Environmental issues 3
- Ethics 24
- Expropriation 2
- Financing 15
- Foreclosure 31
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 5
- Land Title Office 18
- Legal proceedings 59
- Manufactured homes 3
- Mortgages 20
- Owner developers and strata corporations
- Professional Responsibility 22
- Purchase contract 22
- Residential tenancies 3
- Searches and investigations 8
- Site development control 3
- Statements of adjustments 3
- Strata corporations 21
- Strata plans 5
- Strata properties--general 34
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 10
- Surveys 2
- Tax issues 58
- Title 15
- Undertakings 6
- Vancouver Charter 2
- Zoning 3
- School Law 2
- Secured Transactions 17
-
Securities
63
- Appeals 2
- BC Securities Commission 9
- Disclosure 18
- Due diligence 2
- General 19
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 6
- Judicial review 2
- Local Policy Statements 3
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
- Offences 8
- Orders 4
- Practice 25
- Private placement 3
- Public offering 7
- Regulation 13
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 8
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 6
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 24
-
Tax
60
- 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 4
- Foreign income
- General 1
- Goods and Services Tax 4
- Income splitting and attribution rules
- Income tax 8
- 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) 6
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 7
- Reorganizations 3
- Rollovers 3
- Sales tax 4
- Shares and shareholders 3
- Tax litigation 2
- Tax planning 7
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 26
- Technology Law 28
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
231
- Administration application 13
- Adult guardianship 20
- Charitable giving 3
- Client Relations 33
- Devolution of assets 21
- Elder care 52
- Estate litigation 60
- Estate planning 96
- Ethics 16
- Executors and trustees 21
- Fiduciary 2
- General 14
- Multijurisdictional estates 6
- Probate application 10
- Professional Responsibility 26
- Tax issues 42
- Trust planning 56
- Wills 57
- Workers Compensation 25
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- Aboriginal Law 178
- Administrative Law 114
- ADR 100
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 26
- Builders Liens 9
-
Business Law
258
- Acquisitions and mergers 32
- Amalgamations 1
- Banking law 4
- Buying and selling a business 52
- Capital alterations 4
- Charities and non-profit organizations 21
- Client Relations 27
- Commercial litigation 27
- Competition law
- Continuations 2
- Contracts 37
- Corporate finance 39
- Corporate governance 35
- Corporate procedures 35
- Directors 12
- Dissolution and restoration 1
- Ethics 15
- Extra-provincial companies
- Fiduciary 4
- Franchising 8
- Fraud 8
- Incorporation and organization 14
- International 4
- Partnerships 9
- Practice 42
- Privacy 4
- Professional Responsibility 37
- Searches
- Shareholders 8
- Shares 5
- Tax issues 7
- Communications Law 10
-
Creditors Remedies
77
- Acting for the creditor 40
- Acting for the debtor 31
- Assets subject to attachment 10
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 12
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
- Consumer Protection
- Equitable remedies 3
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 9
- Injunctions and preservation orders 3
- Postjudgment remedies 7
- Prejudgment garnishment 4
- Priorities 9
- Proceeding to judgment 4
- Repairers liens 1
- Searches 2
- Criminal Law 91
-
Employment Law
175
- Benefits 8
- Client Relations 8
- Compensation 13
- Defamation 3
- Discrimination 41
- Duties and liabilities 36
- Employment contracts 38
- Employment standards 25
- Ethics 4
- General 54
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 27
- Pensions 3
- Practice 35
- Privacy 26
- Professional Responsibility 12
- Sexual harassment 9
- Tax issues 3
- Wrongful dismissal 47
- Environmental Law 26
-
Family Law
271
- Adoption 14
- ADR 26
- Advocacy
- Appeals 1
- Child protection 71
- Child support 28
- Client Relations 63
- Collaborative law 5
- Common law spouses
- Conflict of laws 4
- Costs 3
- Custody and access 70
- Division of property 47
- Divorce 11
- Ethics 48
- Evidence 38
- General 62
- Guardianship 42
- Interim relief 9
- Marriage 2
- Marriage agreements 5
- Mediation 13
- Multiculturalism 22
- Naming children 1
- Orders 24
- Pensions 2
- Pleadings 42
- Pre-nuptial agreements 2
- Professional Responsibility 35
- Property Agreements 3
- Property Agreements
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 7
- Separation agreements 14
- Spousal support 35
- Tax issues 8
- Unrepresented Litigants 27
- FOI and Privacy 24
- Health Law 15
- Human Rights 133
- Immigration 61
-
Insurance
69
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 5
- Agents 2
- Claims 24
- Contracts 26
- Damages 5
- Defences 8
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 7
- Exclusions 14
- Fire insurance 4
- Homeowners insurance 7
- Lawyers liability insurance 2
- Liability insurance generally 15
- Life insurance 7
- Litigation 17
- Motor vehicle insurance 5
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure 3
- Property and loss of income insurance 4
- Subrogation 1
- Intellectual Property 7
- Labour Law 43
- Legal Research and Writing 18
- Legal Support Staff 168
-
Litigation
654
- Aboriginal litigation 8
- Advocacy skills 39
- Appeals 17
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 44
- Chambers applications 35
- Class actions 26
- Client Relations 23
- Commercial litigation 29
- Conflict of laws 3
- Constitutional 3
- Costs 40
- Damages 19
- Defamation 11
- Discovery 59
- Economic Loss
- Estate litigation 28
- Ethics 60
- Evidence 172
- Experts 107
- Host Liability
- Infants 8
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 1
- Intellectual property litigation 1
- Juries 7
- Jurisdiction 23
- Labour and employment litigation 10
- Law Reform 15
- Limitation of actions 8
- Limitation Periods 14
- Municipal 3
- Orders 8
- Pleadings 61
- Practice 127
- Pre-trial Procedures 29
- Professional Responsibility 85
- Real estate litigation 51
- Remedies 11
- Reviews 4
- Securities litigation 2
- Settlement 22
- Summary trials 10
- Tax issues for litigators
- Tax litigation
- Torts 26
- Trials 56
- Unrepresented Litigants 21
- Vicarious liability 2
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 20
- Natural Resources 51
-
Personal Injury
119
- Client Relations 9
- Damages 41
- Defences 14
- Ethics 9
- Family compensation claims 3
- Host Liability 2
- Injuries 37
- Insurance 10
- Mediation 2
- Medical malpractice 4
- Motor vehicle accidents 22
- Occupiers liability 4
- Part 7 benefits 13
- Practice 48
- Professional Responsibility 16
- Structured settlements and judgments 6
- Tax issues 2
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
246
- Billing 12
- Client development 15
- Client Relations 90
- Conduct and the Law Society 21
- Document management 17
- Employee hiring and retention 18
- Ethics 129
- In House Counsel 1
- Insurance 5
- Management and organization of firms 24
- Partnership issues 12
- Professional Responsibility 8
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
- Solicitor-client privilege 17
- Technology 21
- Trust accounting 2
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 158
-
Real Estate
343
- Agents and brokers 7
- Assessment 19
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 20
- Charges on title 10
- Client Relations 19
- Closing procedures 21
- Commercial leases 19
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 17
- Construction litigation 15
- Conveyancing practice 47
- Development cost charges 2
- Development--general 24
- Development rights 7
- Environmental issues 3
- Ethics 24
- Expropriation 2
- Financing 15
- Foreclosure 31
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 5
- Land Title Office 18
- Legal proceedings 59
- Manufactured homes 3
- Mortgages 20
- Owner developers and strata corporations
- Professional Responsibility 22
- Purchase contract 22
- Residential tenancies 3
- Searches and investigations 8
- Site development control 3
- Statements of adjustments 3
- Strata corporations 21
- Strata plans 5
- Strata properties--general 34
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 10
- Surveys 2
- Tax issues 58
- Title 15
- Undertakings 6
- Vancouver Charter 2
- Zoning 3
- School Law 2
- Secured Transactions 17
-
Securities
63
- Appeals 2
- BC Securities Commission 9
- Disclosure 18
- Due diligence 2
- General 19
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 6
- Judicial review 2
- Local Policy Statements 3
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
- Offences 8
- Orders 4
- Practice 25
- Private placement 3
- Public offering 7
- Regulation 13
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 8
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 6
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 24
-
Tax
60
- 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 4
- Foreign income
- General 1
- Goods and Services Tax 4
- Income splitting and attribution rules
- Income tax 8
- 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) 6
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 7
- Reorganizations 3
- Rollovers 3
- Sales tax 4
- Shares and shareholders 3
- Tax litigation 2
- Tax planning 7
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 26
- Technology Law 28
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
231
- Administration application 13
- Adult guardianship 20
- Charitable giving 3
- Client Relations 33
- Devolution of assets 21
- Elder care 52
- Estate litigation 60
- Estate planning 96
- Ethics 16
- Executors and trustees 21
- Fiduciary 2
- General 14
- Multijurisdictional estates 6
- Probate application 10
- Professional Responsibility 26
- Tax issues 42
- Trust planning 56
- Wills 57
- Workers Compensation 25
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