Practice Areas
-
Aboriginal Law
17
- Business and aboriginal law 1
- Child protection 3
- Criminal justice system 8
- Dispute resolution
- Family law
- General 4
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools 1
- Lands and title
- Litigation
- Practice 2
- Rights 2
- Self-government 2
- Tax issues
- Treaty Negotiations
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations
- Wills and estates
- Access to Justice 11
- Administrative Law 2
- ADR 4
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- Builders Liens 2
-
Business Law
12
- Acquisitions and mergers 2
- Amalgamations
- Asset purchase agreement
- Banking law
- Buying and selling a business 2
- Cannabis
- Capital alterations
- Charities and non-profit organizations
- Client Relations 3
- Commercial litigation
- Competition law
- Continuations
- Contracts 1
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance 1
- Corporate procedures 3
- Directors 1
- Dissolution and restoration
- Ethics 8
- Extra-provincial companies
- Fiduciary
- Franchising
- Fraud 3
- Incorporation and organization
- International
- Partnerships
- Practice 6
- Privacy
- Professional Responsibility 11
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders
- Shareholder agreements
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues
- Childrens Law 3
- Communications Law
- Constitutional Law
-
Creditors Remedies
2
- Acting for the creditor 2
- Acting for the debtor 2
- Assets subject to attachment 1
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens
- Consumer Protection
- Equitable remedies
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 1
- Injunctions and preservation orders
- Postjudgment remedies
- Prejudgment garnishment
- Priorities
- Proceeding to judgment
- Promissory notes
- Repairers liens
- Searches 1
-
Criminal Law
11
- Anti-terrorism
- Appeals 8
- Charter of Rights 8
- Client Relations 8
- Defences 8
- Domestic violence 8
- Ethics 8
- Evidence 8
- Indigenous legal orders 8
- Judicial interim release 8
- Juries 8
- Offences 9
- Practice 8
- Prison law 8
- Professional Responsibility 10
- Restorative justice 8
- Sentencing 8
- Trauma-informed practice 8
- Young offenders 8
- Cultural Competency 10
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 8
-
Employment Law
5
- Benefits
- Client Relations
- Compensation
- Defamation
- Discrimination
- Duties and liabilities
- Employment contracts
- Employment standards
- Ethics 1
- General 2
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety
- Pensions
- Practice 1
- Privacy
- Professional Responsibility 2
- Sexual harassment 2
- Tax issues
- Wrongful dismissal
- Environmental Law
-
Family Law
19
- Access to justice for children
- Adoption
- ADR
- Advocacy
- Appeals
- Assessments and reports
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Child abduction
- Child development 1
- Child protection 3
- Child rights
- Child support
- Client Relations 7
- Collaborative law
- Common law spouses
- Conflict of laws
- Costs
- Custody and access
- Division of property
- Divorce
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 7
- Evidence
- Excluded property
- Family law agreements
- Family violence
- Financial disclosure
- General 2
- Guardianship 1
- Indigenous
- Indigenous child welfare
- Interim relief
- Marriage
- Marriage agreements
- Mediation
- Multiculturalism
- Naming children
- Orders
- Parental alienation
- Parenting responsibilities and contact
- Pensions
- Pleadings
- Pre-nuptial agreements
- Professional Responsibility 7
- Property Agreements
- Property Agreements
- References to Registrar
- Same-sex couples
- Self-represented Litigants
- Separation agreements
- Significant unfairness
- Spousal support
- Tax issues
- Trauma-informed practice 2
- Trusts
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 5
- Valuation
- Views of child
- FOI and Privacy
- Health Law
- Human Rights 8
- Immigration 2
- Indigenous Legal Orders 14
-
Insurance
2
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance
- Agents
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 1
- Contracts
- Damages
- Defences
- Directors and officers insurance
- Duties and liabilities 1
- Exclusions
- Fire insurance
- Homeowners insurance
- Lawyers liability insurance 1
- Liability insurance generally
- Life insurance
- Litigation 1
- Local government
- Motor vehicle insurance
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure
- Property and loss of income insurance
- Strata
- Subrogation
- Intellectual Property
- Labour Law 5
- Legal Research and Writing
- Legal Support Staff 8
-
Litigation
30
- Aboriginal litigation
- Advocacy skills 1
- Affidavits
- Appeals
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation
- Causes of action
- Chambers applications 3
- Class actions 2
- Client Relations 1
- Commercial litigation
- Conflict of laws
- Constitutional
- Costs
- Damages
- Defamation
- Discovery 3
- Economic Loss
- Estate litigation 2
- Ethics 11
- Evidence 6
- Experts 3
- Host Liability
- Infants
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance
- Intellectual property litigation
- Juries
- Jurisdiction
- Labour and employment litigation
- Law Reform
- Limitation of actions
- Limitation Periods
- Local government
- Municipal
- Orders
- Pleadings 2
- Practice 4
- Pre-judgment remedies
- Pre-trial Procedures 1
- Professional Responsibility 15
- Real estate litigation 1
- Registrar practice
- Releases
- Remedies
- Reviews
- Securities litigation
- Self-represented litigants 1
- Settlement
- Summary trials
- Tax issues for litigators
- Tax litigation
- Torts
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trials
- Unrepresented Litigants 3
- Vicarious liability
- Local Government
- Maritime Law
- Municipal Law 1
- Natural Resources
-
Personal Injury
3
- Client Relations 1
- Costs
- Damages 1
- Defences
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 1
- Experts
- Family compensation claims
- Host Liability
- Injuries
- Insurance
- Mediation
- Medical malpractice
- Motor vehicle accidents
- Occupiers liability
- Part 7 benefits
- Practice 2
- Professional Responsibility 1
- Structured settlements and judgments
- Tax issues
- Trauma-informed practice
- Underinsured motorist protection
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
104
- Billing 6
- Client development 7
- Client Relations 36
- Conduct and the Law Society 11
- Document management 6
- Employee hiring and retention 8
- Ethics 49
- In House Counsel
- Insurance 3
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 17
- Partnership issues 2
- Professional Responsibility 15
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act
- Solicitor-client privilege 6
- Technology 9
- Trauma-informed practice 10
- Trust accounting 3
- Wellness 18
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 63
-
Real Estate
16
- Affidavits
- Agents and brokers
- Assessment 1
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 2
- Certificate of pending litigation
- Charges on title
- Client Relations 5
- Closing procedures 1
- Commercial leases
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general
- Construction contracts
- Construction litigation
- Conveyancing practice 1
- Development cost charges
- Development--general
- Development rights
- Easement
- Environmental issues
- Ethics 10
- Expropriation
- Financing
- Foreclosure 1
- Government approvals
- Indian Act conveyancing
- Land Title Office
- Legal proceedings 1
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes
- Mortgages
- Owner developers and strata corporations
- Professional Responsibility 7
- Purchase contract
- Residential tenancies
- Searches and investigations
- Site development control
- Statements of adjustments
- Statutory declarations
- Strata corporations 1
- Strata plans
- Strata properties--general 1
- Structure of the developer
- Subdivision
- Surveys
- Tax issues 1
- Title
- Undertakings
- Vancouver Charter
- Zoning
- School Law
- Secured Transactions
-
Securities
2
- Appeals
- BC Securities Commission
- Disclosure
- Due diligence
- General 1
- Hearings
- Investigations 1
- Judicial review
- Local Policy Statements
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes
- Offences
- Orders
- Practice 2
- Private placement
- Public offering
- Regulation
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges
- Stock options
- Takeover bids
- Underwriters
- Solicitor 4
- Strata Law 1
-
Tax
2
- Aboriginal tax issues
- Anti-avoidance rules
- Appeals
- Audits 2
- Buying and selling a business
- Capital gains
- Charities and non-profit organizations
- Collection practices and procedures
- Corporate
- Family law tax issues
- Foreign income
- General 2
- Goods and Services Tax
- Income splitting and attribution rules
- Income tax
- Intellectual property tax issues
- Lawyers and law firms 1
- Offshore taxation
- Partnership
- Pensions
- Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements
- Practice 2
- Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues)
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues
- Reorganizations
- Rollovers
- Sales tax
- Shares and shareholders
- Tax litigation
- Tax planning
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues
- Technology Law 1
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
7
- Administration application
- Adult guardianship 2
- Charitable giving
- Client Relations 3
- Committeeship
- Curative provisions
- Devolution of assets
- Elder care 1
- Estate litigation 2
- Estate planning
- Ethics 3
- Executors and trustees
- Fiduciary
- General 2
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues
- Life estate
- Multijurisdictional estates
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney
- Practice
- Probate application
- Professional Responsibility 5
- Rectifying wills
- Representation agreement
- Tax issues
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning
- Wills
- Wills challenges
- Workers Compensation
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PRACTICE AREA
-
Aboriginal Law
17
- Business and aboriginal law 1
- Child protection 3
- Criminal justice system 8
- Dispute resolution
- Family law
- General 4
- Indian Act
- Indian residential schools 1
- Lands and title
- Litigation
- Practice 2
- Rights 2
- Self-government 2
- Tax issues
- Treaty Negotiations
- Trusts and fiduciary obligations
- Wills and estates
- Access to Justice 11
- Administrative Law 2
- ADR 4
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency
- Builders Liens 2
-
Business Law
12
- Acquisitions and mergers 2
- Amalgamations
- Asset purchase agreement
- Banking law
- Buying and selling a business 2
- Cannabis
- Capital alterations
- Charities and non-profit organizations
- Client Relations 3
- Commercial litigation
- Competition law
- Continuations
- Contracts 1
- Corporate finance
- Corporate governance 1
- Corporate procedures 3
- Directors 1
- Dissolution and restoration
- Ethics 8
- Extra-provincial companies
- Fiduciary
- Franchising
- Fraud 3
- Incorporation and organization
- International
- Partnerships
- Practice 6
- Privacy
- Professional Responsibility 11
- Promissory notes
- Releases
- Searches
- Shareholders
- Shareholder agreements
- Share purchase agreement
- Shares
- Statutory declaration
- Tax issues
- Childrens Law 3
- Communications Law
- Constitutional Law
-
Creditors Remedies
2
- Acting for the creditor 2
- Acting for the debtor 2
- Assets subject to attachment 1
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens
- Consumer Protection
- Equitable remedies
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 1
- Injunctions and preservation orders
- Postjudgment remedies
- Prejudgment garnishment
- Priorities
- Proceeding to judgment
- Promissory notes
- Repairers liens
- Searches 1
-
Criminal Law
11
- Anti-terrorism
- Appeals 8
- Charter of Rights 8
- Client Relations 8
- Defences 8
- Domestic violence 8
- Ethics 8
- Evidence 8
- Indigenous legal orders 8
- Judicial interim release 8
- Juries 8
- Offences 9
- Practice 8
- Prison law 8
- Professional Responsibility 10
- Restorative justice 8
- Sentencing 8
- Trauma-informed practice 8
- Young offenders 8
- Cultural Competency 10
- Dispute Resolution
- Diversity Inclusion and Anti-racism 8
-
Employment Law
5
- Benefits
- Client Relations
- Compensation
- Defamation
- Discrimination
- Duties and liabilities
- Employment contracts
- Employment standards
- Ethics 1
- General 2
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety
- Pensions
- Practice 1
- Privacy
- Professional Responsibility 2
- Sexual harassment 2
- Tax issues
- Wrongful dismissal
- Environmental Law
-
Family Law
19
- Access to justice for children
- Adoption
- ADR
- Advocacy
- Appeals
- Assessments and reports
- Assisted reproductive technologies
- Child abduction
- Child development 1
- Child protection 3
- Child rights
- Child support
- Client Relations 7
- Collaborative law
- Common law spouses
- Conflict of laws
- Costs
- Custody and access
- Division of property
- Divorce
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 7
- Evidence
- Excluded property
- Family law agreements
- Family violence
- Financial disclosure
- General 2
- Guardianship 1
- Indigenous
- Indigenous child welfare
- Interim relief
- Marriage
- Marriage agreements
- Mediation
- Multiculturalism
- Naming children
- Orders
- Parental alienation
- Parenting responsibilities and contact
- Pensions
- Pleadings
- Pre-nuptial agreements
- Professional Responsibility 7
- Property Agreements
- Property Agreements
- References to Registrar
- Same-sex couples
- Self-represented Litigants
- Separation agreements
- Significant unfairness
- Spousal support
- Tax issues
- Trauma-informed practice 2
- Trusts
- Unjust enrichment
- Unmarried spouses
- Unrepresented Litigants 5
- Valuation
- Views of child
- FOI and Privacy
- Health Law
- Human Rights 8
- Immigration 2
- Indigenous Legal Orders 14
-
Insurance
2
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance
- Agents
- Bad faith
- Breach
- Claims 1
- Contracts
- Damages
- Defences
- Directors and officers insurance
- Duties and liabilities 1
- Exclusions
- Fire insurance
- Homeowners insurance
- Lawyers liability insurance 1
- Liability insurance generally
- Life insurance
- Litigation 1
- Local government
- Motor vehicle insurance
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure
- Property and loss of income insurance
- Strata
- Subrogation
- Intellectual Property
- Labour Law 5
- Legal Research and Writing
- Legal Support Staff 8
-
Litigation
30
- Aboriginal litigation
- Advocacy skills 1
- Affidavits
- Appeals
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation
- Causes of action
- Chambers applications 3
- Class actions 2
- Client Relations 1
- Commercial litigation
- Conflict of laws
- Constitutional
- Costs
- Damages
- Defamation
- Discovery 3
- Economic Loss
- Estate litigation 2
- Ethics 11
- Evidence 6
- Experts 3
- Host Liability
- Infants
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance
- Intellectual property litigation
- Juries
- Jurisdiction
- Labour and employment litigation
- Law Reform
- Limitation of actions
- Limitation Periods
- Local government
- Municipal
- Orders
- Pleadings 2
- Practice 4
- Pre-judgment remedies
- Pre-trial Procedures 1
- Professional Responsibility 15
- Real estate litigation 1
- Registrar practice
- Releases
- Remedies
- Reviews
- Securities litigation
- Self-represented litigants 1
- Settlement
- Summary trials
- Tax issues for litigators
- Tax litigation
- Torts
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trials
- Unrepresented Litigants 3
- Vicarious liability
- Local Government
- Maritime Law
- Municipal Law 1
- Natural Resources
-
Personal Injury
3
- Client Relations 1
- Costs
- Damages 1
- Defences
- Dispute resolution
- Ethics 1
- Experts
- Family compensation claims
- Host Liability
- Injuries
- Insurance
- Mediation
- Medical malpractice
- Motor vehicle accidents
- Occupiers liability
- Part 7 benefits
- Practice 2
- Professional Responsibility 1
- Structured settlements and judgments
- Tax issues
- Trauma-informed practice
- Underinsured motorist protection
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
104
- Billing 6
- Client development 7
- Client Relations 36
- Conduct and the Law Society 11
- Document management 6
- Employee hiring and retention 8
- Ethics 49
- In House Counsel
- Insurance 3
- Lawyers and the media
- Management and organization of firms 17
- Partnership issues 2
- Professional Responsibility 15
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act
- Solicitor-client privilege 6
- Technology 9
- Trauma-informed practice 10
- Trust accounting 3
- Wellness 18
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 63
-
Real Estate
16
- Affidavits
- Agents and brokers
- Assessment 1
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 2
- Certificate of pending litigation
- Charges on title
- Client Relations 5
- Closing procedures 1
- Commercial leases
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general
- Construction contracts
- Construction litigation
- Conveyancing practice 1
- Development cost charges
- Development--general
- Development rights
- Easement
- Environmental issues
- Ethics 10
- Expropriation
- Financing
- Foreclosure 1
- Government approvals
- Indian Act conveyancing
- Land Title Office
- Legal proceedings 1
- Licensees
- Manufactured homes
- Mortgages
- Owner developers and strata corporations
- Professional Responsibility 7
- Purchase contract
- Residential tenancies
- Searches and investigations
- Site development control
- Statements of adjustments
- Statutory declarations
- Strata corporations 1
- Strata plans
- Strata properties--general 1
- Structure of the developer
- Subdivision
- Surveys
- Tax issues 1
- Title
- Undertakings
- Vancouver Charter
- Zoning
- School Law
- Secured Transactions
-
Securities
2
- Appeals
- BC Securities Commission
- Disclosure
- Due diligence
- General 1
- Hearings
- Investigations 1
- Judicial review
- Local Policy Statements
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes
- Offences
- Orders
- Practice 2
- Private placement
- Public offering
- Regulation
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges
- Stock options
- Takeover bids
- Underwriters
- Solicitor 4
- Strata Law 1
-
Tax
2
- Aboriginal tax issues
- Anti-avoidance rules
- Appeals
- Audits 2
- Buying and selling a business
- Capital gains
- Charities and non-profit organizations
- Collection practices and procedures
- Corporate
- Family law tax issues
- Foreign income
- General 2
- Goods and Services Tax
- Income splitting and attribution rules
- Income tax
- Intellectual property tax issues
- Lawyers and law firms 1
- Offshore taxation
- Partnership
- Pensions
- Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements
- Practice 2
- Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues)
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues
- Reorganizations
- Rollovers
- Sales tax
- Shares and shareholders
- Tax litigation
- Tax planning
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues
- Technology Law 1
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
7
- Administration application
- Adult guardianship 2
- Charitable giving
- Client Relations 3
- Committeeship
- Curative provisions
- Devolution of assets
- Elder care 1
- Estate litigation 2
- Estate planning
- Ethics 3
- Executors and trustees
- Fiduciary
- General 2
- Incapacity planning and capacity issues
- Life estate
- Multijurisdictional estates
- Passing of accounts
- Pensions
- Power of attorney
- Practice
- Probate application
- Professional Responsibility 5
- Rectifying wills
- Representation agreement
- Tax issues
- Trauma-informed practice
- Trust planning
- Wills
- Wills challenges
- Workers Compensation
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