Practice Areas
- Aboriginal Law 165
- Administrative Law 142
- ADR 97
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 40
- Builders Liens 14
-
Business Law
335
- Acquisitions and mergers 40
- Amalgamations 1
- Banking law 4
- Buying and selling a business 64
- Capital alterations 1
- Charities and non-profit organizations 28
- Client Relations 9
- Commercial litigation 36
- Competition law 1
- Continuations 1
- Contracts 28
- Corporate finance 54
- Corporate governance 43
- Corporate procedures 22
- Directors 9
- Dissolution and restoration
- Ethics 8
- Extra-provincial companies
- Fiduciary 3
- Franchising 2
- Fraud 6
- Incorporation and organization 18
- International 7
- Partnerships 9
- Practice 40
- Privacy 9
- Professional Responsibility 15
- Searches
- Shareholders 15
- Shares 5
- Tax issues 26
- Communications Law 10
-
Creditors Remedies
71
- Acting for the creditor 29
- Acting for the debtor 26
- Assets subject to attachment 8
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 9
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 1
- Consumer Protection
- Equitable remedies 3
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 10
- Injunctions and preservation orders 3
- Postjudgment remedies 6
- Prejudgment garnishment 4
- Priorities 17
- Proceeding to judgment 3
- Repairers liens
- Searches 2
- Criminal Law 92
-
Employment Law
171
- Benefits 3
- Client Relations 6
- Compensation 6
- Defamation 2
- Discrimination 45
- Duties and liabilities 28
- Employment contracts 29
- Employment standards 16
- Ethics 2
- General 40
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 26
- Pensions 4
- Practice 21
- Privacy 35
- Professional Responsibility 5
- Sexual harassment 6
- Tax issues 3
- Wrongful dismissal 44
- Environmental Law 27
-
Family Law
348
- Adoption 9
- ADR 30
- Advocacy 1
- Appeals 3
- Child protection 56
- Child support 34
- Client Relations 45
- Collaborative law 7
- Common law spouses 6
- Conflict of laws 7
- Costs 7
- Custody and access 65
- Division of property 75
- Divorce 3
- Ethics 36
- Evidence 35
- General 78
- Guardianship 55
- Interim relief 11
- Marriage 5
- Marriage agreements 8
- Mediation 18
- Multiculturalism 10
- Naming children 2
- Orders 20
- Pensions 5
- Pleadings 45
- Pre-nuptial agreements 5
- Professional Responsibility 31
- Property Agreements 8
- Property Agreements
- References to Registrar 2
- Same-sex couples 9
- Separation agreements 12
- Spousal support 40
- Tax issues 8
- Unrepresented Litigants 14
- FOI and Privacy 41
- Health Law 25
- Human Rights 135
- Immigration 93
-
Insurance
93
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 3
- Agents 2
- Claims 19
- Contracts 29
- Damages 2
- Defences 13
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 11
- Exclusions 19
- Fire insurance 2
- Homeowners insurance 8
- Lawyers liability insurance 2
- Liability insurance generally 21
- Life insurance 7
- Litigation 25
- Motor vehicle insurance 18
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure 4
- Property and loss of income insurance 4
- Subrogation 10
- Intellectual Property 9
- Labour Law 49
- Legal Research and Writing 16
- Legal Support Staff 257
-
Litigation
851
- Aboriginal litigation 8
- Advocacy skills 46
- Appeals 21
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 58
- Chambers applications 34
- Class actions 43
- Client Relations 37
- Commercial litigation 32
- Conflict of laws 3
- Constitutional 4
- Costs 54
- Damages 27
- Defamation 14
- Discovery 77
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 46
- Ethics 69
- Evidence 211
- Experts 138
- Host Liability
- Infants 11
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance
- Intellectual property litigation 1
- Juries 7
- Jurisdiction 34
- Labour and employment litigation 14
- Law Reform 20
- Limitation of actions 11
- Limitation Periods 15
- Municipal 3
- Orders 11
- Pleadings 79
- Practice 179
- Pre-trial Procedures 40
- Professional Responsibility 86
- Real estate litigation 40
- Remedies 13
- Reviews 2
- Securities litigation 7
- Settlement 26
- Summary trials 15
- Tax issues for litigators
- Tax litigation
- Torts 39
- Trials 68
- Unrepresented Litigants 28
- Vicarious liability 2
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 32
- Natural Resources 43
-
Personal Injury
150
- Client Relations 14
- Damages 46
- Defences 13
- Ethics 13
- Family compensation claims 3
- Host Liability 3
- Injuries 45
- Insurance 12
- Mediation 2
- Medical malpractice 4
- Motor vehicle accidents 23
- Occupiers liability 5
- Part 7 benefits 11
- Practice 63
- Professional Responsibility 21
- Structured settlements and judgments 8
- Tax issues 3
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
234
- Billing 21
- Client development 15
- Client Relations 81
- Conduct and the Law Society 15
- Document management 31
- Employee hiring and retention 7
- Ethics 108
- In House Counsel 1
- Insurance 5
- Management and organization of firms 19
- Partnership issues 11
- Professional Responsibility 8
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
- Solicitor-client privilege 10
- Technology 22
- Trust accounting 7
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 164
-
Real Estate
418
- Agents and brokers 11
- Assessment 17
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 12
- Charges on title 9
- Client Relations 24
- Closing procedures 16
- Commercial leases 25
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 2
- Construction contracts 26
- Construction litigation 19
- Conveyancing practice 47
- Development cost charges 2
- Development--general 40
- Development rights 12
- Environmental issues 6
- Ethics 29
- Expropriation 3
- Financing 18
- Foreclosure 31
- Government approvals 4
- Indian Act conveyancing 7
- Land Title Office 28
- Legal proceedings 53
- Manufactured homes 2
- Mortgages 25
- Owner developers and strata corporations 1
- Professional Responsibility 21
- Purchase contract 26
- Residential tenancies 7
- Searches and investigations 8
- Site development control 1
- Statements of adjustments 2
- Strata corporations 16
- Strata plans 10
- Strata properties--general 42
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 19
- Surveys 10
- Tax issues 57
- Title 18
- Undertakings 4
- Vancouver Charter 2
- Zoning 2
- School Law 2
- Secured Transactions 11
-
Securities
60
- Appeals 1
- BC Securities Commission 10
- Disclosure 9
- Due diligence 1
- General 21
- Hearings 1
- Investigations 2
- Judicial review 2
- Local Policy Statements
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
- Offences 5
- Orders 1
- Practice 16
- Private placement 2
- Public offering 3
- Regulation 8
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 3
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 4
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 51
-
Tax
83
- Aboriginal tax issues 5
- Anti-avoidance rules 1
- Appeals
- Audits
- Buying and selling a business 4
- Capital gains 2
- Charities and non-profit organizations 1
- Collection practices and procedures 1
- Corporate 19
- Family law tax issues 5
- Foreign income 1
- General 10
- Goods and Services Tax 10
- Income splitting and attribution rules
- Income tax 9
- Intellectual property tax issues
- Lawyers and law firms 1
- Offshore taxation
- Partnership 3
- Pensions
- Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 1
- Practice 7
- Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 5
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 7
- Reorganizations 1
- Rollovers 2
- Sales tax 8
- Shares and shareholders 3
- Tax litigation
- Tax planning 2
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 27
- Technology Law 49
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
283
- Administration application 16
- Adult guardianship 26
- Charitable giving 2
- Client Relations 27
- Devolution of assets 33
- Elder care 52
- Estate litigation 73
- Estate planning 116
- Ethics 20
- Executors and trustees 17
- Fiduciary 2
- General 37
- Multijurisdictional estates 5
- Probate application 16
- Professional Responsibility 27
- Tax issues 34
- Trust planning 49
- Wills 53
- Workers Compensation 22
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PRACTICE AREA
- Aboriginal Law 165
- Administrative Law 142
- ADR 97
- Air Law
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 40
- Builders Liens 14
-
Business Law
335
- Acquisitions and mergers 40
- Amalgamations 1
- Banking law 4
- Buying and selling a business 64
- Capital alterations 1
- Charities and non-profit organizations 28
- Client Relations 9
- Commercial litigation 36
- Competition law 1
- Continuations 1
- Contracts 28
- Corporate finance 54
- Corporate governance 43
- Corporate procedures 22
- Directors 9
- Dissolution and restoration
- Ethics 8
- Extra-provincial companies
- Fiduciary 3
- Franchising 2
- Fraud 6
- Incorporation and organization 18
- International 7
- Partnerships 9
- Practice 40
- Privacy 9
- Professional Responsibility 15
- Searches
- Shareholders 15
- Shares 5
- Tax issues 26
- Communications Law 10
-
Creditors Remedies
71
- Acting for the creditor 29
- Acting for the debtor 26
- Assets subject to attachment 8
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 9
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 1
- Consumer Protection
- Equitable remedies 3
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 10
- Injunctions and preservation orders 3
- Postjudgment remedies 6
- Prejudgment garnishment 4
- Priorities 17
- Proceeding to judgment 3
- Repairers liens
- Searches 2
- Criminal Law 92
-
Employment Law
171
- Benefits 3
- Client Relations 6
- Compensation 6
- Defamation 2
- Discrimination 45
- Duties and liabilities 28
- Employment contracts 29
- Employment standards 16
- Ethics 2
- General 40
- Mandatory Retirement
- Occupational health and safety 26
- Pensions 4
- Practice 21
- Privacy 35
- Professional Responsibility 5
- Sexual harassment 6
- Tax issues 3
- Wrongful dismissal 44
- Environmental Law 27
-
Family Law
348
- Adoption 9
- ADR 30
- Advocacy 1
- Appeals 3
- Child protection 56
- Child support 34
- Client Relations 45
- Collaborative law 7
- Common law spouses 6
- Conflict of laws 7
- Costs 7
- Custody and access 65
- Division of property 75
- Divorce 3
- Ethics 36
- Evidence 35
- General 78
- Guardianship 55
- Interim relief 11
- Marriage 5
- Marriage agreements 8
- Mediation 18
- Multiculturalism 10
- Naming children 2
- Orders 20
- Pensions 5
- Pleadings 45
- Pre-nuptial agreements 5
- Professional Responsibility 31
- Property Agreements 8
- Property Agreements
- References to Registrar 2
- Same-sex couples 9
- Separation agreements 12
- Spousal support 40
- Tax issues 8
- Unrepresented Litigants 14
- FOI and Privacy 41
- Health Law 25
- Human Rights 135
- Immigration 93
-
Insurance
93
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 3
- Agents 2
- Claims 19
- Contracts 29
- Damages 2
- Defences 13
- Directors and officers insurance 2
- Duties and liabilities 11
- Exclusions 19
- Fire insurance 2
- Homeowners insurance 8
- Lawyers liability insurance 2
- Liability insurance generally 21
- Life insurance 7
- Litigation 25
- Motor vehicle insurance 18
- Municipal
- Non Disclosure 4
- Property and loss of income insurance 4
- Subrogation 10
- Intellectual Property 9
- Labour Law 49
- Legal Research and Writing 16
- Legal Support Staff 257
-
Litigation
851
- Aboriginal litigation 8
- Advocacy skills 46
- Appeals 21
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 4
- Causes of action 58
- Chambers applications 34
- Class actions 43
- Client Relations 37
- Commercial litigation 32
- Conflict of laws 3
- Constitutional 4
- Costs 54
- Damages 27
- Defamation 14
- Discovery 77
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 46
- Ethics 69
- Evidence 211
- Experts 138
- Host Liability
- Infants 11
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance
- Intellectual property litigation 1
- Juries 7
- Jurisdiction 34
- Labour and employment litigation 14
- Law Reform 20
- Limitation of actions 11
- Limitation Periods 15
- Municipal 3
- Orders 11
- Pleadings 79
- Practice 179
- Pre-trial Procedures 40
- Professional Responsibility 86
- Real estate litigation 40
- Remedies 13
- Reviews 2
- Securities litigation 7
- Settlement 26
- Summary trials 15
- Tax issues for litigators
- Tax litigation
- Torts 39
- Trials 68
- Unrepresented Litigants 28
- Vicarious liability 2
- Maritime Law 1
- Municipal Law 32
- Natural Resources 43
-
Personal Injury
150
- Client Relations 14
- Damages 46
- Defences 13
- Ethics 13
- Family compensation claims 3
- Host Liability 3
- Injuries 45
- Insurance 12
- Mediation 2
- Medical malpractice 4
- Motor vehicle accidents 23
- Occupiers liability 5
- Part 7 benefits 11
- Practice 63
- Professional Responsibility 21
- Structured settlements and judgments 8
- Tax issues 3
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation
-
Practice Management
234
- Billing 21
- Client development 15
- Client Relations 81
- Conduct and the Law Society 15
- Document management 31
- Employee hiring and retention 7
- Ethics 108
- In House Counsel 1
- Insurance 5
- Management and organization of firms 19
- Partnership issues 11
- Professional Responsibility 8
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 2
- Solicitor-client privilege 10
- Technology 22
- Trust accounting 7
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 164
-
Real Estate
418
- Agents and brokers 11
- Assessment 17
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 12
- Charges on title 9
- Client Relations 24
- Closing procedures 16
- Commercial leases 25
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 2
- Construction contracts 26
- Construction litigation 19
- Conveyancing practice 47
- Development cost charges 2
- Development--general 40
- Development rights 12
- Environmental issues 6
- Ethics 29
- Expropriation 3
- Financing 18
- Foreclosure 31
- Government approvals 4
- Indian Act conveyancing 7
- Land Title Office 28
- Legal proceedings 53
- Manufactured homes 2
- Mortgages 25
- Owner developers and strata corporations 1
- Professional Responsibility 21
- Purchase contract 26
- Residential tenancies 7
- Searches and investigations 8
- Site development control 1
- Statements of adjustments 2
- Strata corporations 16
- Strata plans 10
- Strata properties--general 42
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 19
- Surveys 10
- Tax issues 57
- Title 18
- Undertakings 4
- Vancouver Charter 2
- Zoning 2
- School Law 2
- Secured Transactions 11
-
Securities
60
- Appeals 1
- BC Securities Commission 10
- Disclosure 9
- Due diligence 1
- General 21
- Hearings 1
- Investigations 2
- Judicial review 2
- Local Policy Statements
- National Registration Database
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 1
- Offences 5
- Orders 1
- Practice 16
- Private placement 2
- Public offering 3
- Regulation 8
- Searches
- Stockbrokers
- Stock exchanges 3
- Stock options
- Takeover bids 4
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 51
-
Tax
83
- Aboriginal tax issues 5
- Anti-avoidance rules 1
- Appeals
- Audits
- Buying and selling a business 4
- Capital gains 2
- Charities and non-profit organizations 1
- Collection practices and procedures 1
- Corporate 19
- Family law tax issues 5
- Foreign income 1
- General 10
- Goods and Services Tax 10
- Income splitting and attribution rules
- Income tax 9
- Intellectual property tax issues
- Lawyers and law firms 1
- Offshore taxation
- Partnership 3
- Pensions
- Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 1
- Practice 7
- Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 5
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 7
- Reorganizations 1
- Rollovers 2
- Sales tax 8
- Shares and shareholders 3
- Tax litigation
- Tax planning 2
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 27
- Technology Law 49
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
283
- Administration application 16
- Adult guardianship 26
- Charitable giving 2
- Client Relations 27
- Devolution of assets 33
- Elder care 52
- Estate litigation 73
- Estate planning 116
- Ethics 20
- Executors and trustees 17
- Fiduciary 2
- General 37
- Multijurisdictional estates 5
- Probate application 16
- Professional Responsibility 27
- Tax issues 34
- Trust planning 49
- Wills 53
- Workers Compensation 22
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