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Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 418
  • Business and aboriginal law 66
  • Child protection 72
  • Criminal justice system 43
  • Family law 57
  • General 158
  • Lands and title 173
  • Litigation 74
  • Practice 95
  • Rights 195
  • Self-government 111
  • Tax issues 16
  • Treaty Negotiations 54
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 19
  • Wills and estates 2
• Administrative Law 279
  • Abuse of discretion 11
  • Appellate review 26
  • Charter cases 21
  • Discipline proceedings 48
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 19
  • Judicial review 123
  • Jurisdiction 32
  • Natural justice 25
  • Practice 97
  • Remedies 33
  • Tribunals 91
• ADR 297
  • Arbitration 113
  • Collaborative law 13
  • Judicial review 16
  • Mediation 104
  • Mediation--family law 62
  • Practice 83
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 76
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 15
  • Appeals 6
  • Directors liability 13
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 14
  • General 61
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 12
  • Priorities 27
  • Proposals 22
  • Receiving orders 6
  • Settlements and preferences 19
  • Trustees 11
• Builders Liens 27
• Business Law 535
  • Acquisitions and mergers 60
  • Amalgamations 7
  • Banking law 10
  • Buying and selling a business 64
  • Capital alterations 5
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 65
  • Client Relations 29
  • Commercial litigation 96
  • Competition law 22
  • Continuations 5
  • Contracts 91
  • Corporate finance 34
  • Corporate governance 92
  • Corporate procedures 42
  • Directors 41
  • Dissolution and restoration 3
  • Ethics 23
  • Extra-provincial companies 3
  • Fiduciary 10
  • Franchising 8
  • Fraud 14
  • Incorporation and organization 39
  • International 8
  • Partnerships 29
  • Practice 65
  • Privacy 10
  • Professional Responsibility 45
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 42
  • Shares 14
  • Tax issues 46
• Communications Law 20
• Creditors Remedies 95
  • Acting for the creditor 45
  • Acting for the debtor 36
  • Assets subject to attachment 16
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 22
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
  • Consumer Protection 1
  • Equitable remedies 6
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 16
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 10
  • Postjudgment remedies 13
  • Prejudgment garnishment 5
  • Priorities 26
  • Proceeding to judgment 5
  • Repairers liens 1
  • Searches 5
• Criminal Law 301
  • Anti-terrorism 1
  • Appeals 14
  • Charter of Rights 79
  • Client Relations 16
  • Defences 43
  • Ethics 22
  • Evidence 140
  • Judicial interim release 16
  • Juries 5
  • Offences 68
  • Practice 91
  • Professional Responsibility 43
  • Sentencing 71
  • Young offenders 29
• Employment Law 426
  • Benefits 34
  • Client Relations 14
  • Compensation 40
  • Defamation 9
  • Discrimination 141
  • Duties and liabilities 98
  • Employment contracts 107
  • Employment standards 84
  • Ethics 8
  • General 123
  • Mandatory Retirement 11
  • Occupational health and safety 80
  • Pensions 27
  • Practice 56
  • Privacy 100
  • Professional Responsibility 20
  • Sexual harassment 30
  • Tax issues 6
  • Wrongful dismissal 144
• Environmental Law 89
  • Conservation covenants 2
  • Contaminated sites 34
  • Endangered species 2
  • Environmental assessment 26
  • Environmental protection 40
  • Forest practices 4
  • Insurance 7
  • Liability 36
  • Waste management 3
• Family Law 533
  • Adoption 33
  • ADR 81
  • Advocacy
  • Appeals 7
  • Child protection 168
  • Child support 101
  • Client Relations 136
  • Collaborative law 18
  • Common law spouses 20
  • Conflict of laws 15
  • Costs 8
  • Custody and access 143
  • Division of property 140
  • Divorce 31
  • Ethics 103
  • Evidence 94
  • General 137
  • Guardianship 91
  • Interim relief 34
  • Marriage 10
  • Marriage agreements 28
  • Mediation 51
  • Multiculturalism 54
  • Naming children 4
  • Orders 50
  • Pensions 8
  • Pleadings 88
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 17
  • Professional Responsibility 89
  • Property Agreements 20
  • Property Agreements 14
  • References to Registrar 1
  • Same-sex couples 17
  • Separation agreements 41
  • Spousal support 109
  • Tax issues 35
  • Unrepresented Litigants 54
• FOI and Privacy 139
• Health Law 69
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 402
  • BCHRA 86
  • Charter 163
  • CHRA 22
  • Client Relations 30
  • Discrimination 208
  • Ethics 26
  • Ethics 15
  • General 158
  • Procedure 58
  • Professional Responsibility 31
  • Remedies 40
• Immigration 212
  • Admission 98
  • Appeals 54
  • Business immigrants 67
  • Citizenship 26
  • Client Relations 35
  • Ethics 22
  • Extradition 18
  • Permanent residency 24
  • Policy 65
  • Practice 107
  • Professional Responsibility 24
  • Refugees 70
  • Tax issues 9
  • Visas 38
• Insurance 228
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 25
  • Agents 8
  • Claims 69
  • Contracts 54
  • Damages 19
  • Defences 38
  • Directors and officers insurance 10
  • Duties and liabilities 23
  • Exclusions 41
  • Fire insurance 9
  • Homeowners insurance 24
  • Lawyers liability insurance 9
  • Liability insurance generally 63
  • Life insurance 17
  • Litigation 78
  • Motor vehicle insurance 33
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 9
  • Property and loss of income insurance 14
  • Subrogation 31
• Intellectual Property 51
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 17
  • Computer software and Internet issues 8
  • Copyright 18
  • Licensing 11
  • Patents 13
  • Remedies 11
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 20
  • Trade secrets 25
• Labour Law 155
  • Arbitration 86
  • Certification and decertification 11
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 23
  • Industrial disputes 3
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 28
  • Picketing 11
  • Practice 27
  • Successorship 7
  • Unfair labour practices 13
  • Unions 55
• Legal Research and Writing 46
• Legal Support Staff 292
  • Business law for LSS 20
  • Civil litigation for LSS 72
  • Collections for LSS 10
  • Conveyancing for LSS 23
  • Corporate records for LSS 11
  • Estate administration for LSS 21
  • Family law for LSS 47
  • Foreclosures for LSS 14
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 65
  • PPSA for LSS 10
  • Research for LSS 7
  • Securities for LSS 25
• Litigation 1362
  • Aboriginal litigation 47
  • Advocacy skills 83
  • Appeals 57
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 16
  • Causes of action 120
  • Chambers applications 93
  • Class actions 108
  • Client Relations 60
  • Commercial litigation 130
  • Conflict of laws 21
  • Constitutional 28
  • Costs 115
  • Damages 75
  • Defamation 33
  • Discovery 183
  • Economic Loss 2
  • Estate litigation 62
  • Ethics 113
  • Evidence 402
  • Experts 241
  • Host Liability 8
  • Infants 21
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
  • Intellectual property litigation 12
  • Juries 25
  • Jurisdiction 82
  • Labour and employment litigation 57
  • Law Reform 47
  • Limitation of actions 27
  • Limitation Periods 42
  • Municipal 15
  • Orders 29
  • Pleadings 174
  • Practice 287
  • Pre-trial Procedures 103
  • Professional Responsibility 130
  • Real estate litigation 107
  • Remedies 28
  • Reviews 10
  • Securities litigation 33
  • Settlement 94
  • Summary trials 47
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation 4
  • Torts 79
  • Trials 199
  • Unrepresented Litigants 64
  • Vicarious liability 21
• Maritime Law 3
• Municipal Law 57
  • Actions by and against municipalities 5
  • Bylaws 11
  • Contracts 10
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management 3
  • General 23
  • Land use planning 12
  • Licensing 3
  • Litigation 16
  • Municipal councils 12
  • Powers of municipality 26
  • Subdivision 12
  • Zoning 5
• Natural Resources 116
  • Aboriginal rights 30
  • Fisheries law 3
  • Forestry law 34
  • General 26
  • Mining law 58
  • Oil and gas law 9
  • Water 3
  • Wildlife 2
• Personal Injury 289
  • Client Relations 25
  • Damages 90
  • Defences 37
  • Ethics 24
  • Family compensation claims 9
  • Host Liability 19
  • Injuries 80
  • Insurance 25
  • Mediation 18
  • Medical malpractice 9
  • Motor vehicle accidents 73
  • Occupiers liability 10
  • Part 7 benefits 34
  • Practice 119
  • Professional Responsibility 33
  • Structured settlements and judgments 19
  • Tax issues 7
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 587
  • Billing 65
  • Client development 69
  • Client Relations 229
  • Conduct and the Law Society 51
  • Document management 87
  • Employee hiring and retention 52
  • Ethics 263
  • In House Counsel 5
  • Insurance 18
  • Management and organization of firms 76
  • Partnership issues 20
  • Professional Responsibility 21
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 8
  • Solicitor-client privilege 76
  • Technology 70
  • Trust accounting 17
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 317
  • Client Relations 142
  • Ethics 272
• Real Estate 492
  • Agents and brokers 26
  • Assessment 44
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 20
  • Charges on title 19
  • Client Relations 35
  • Closing procedures 30
  • Commercial leases 51
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 4
  • Construction contracts 74
  • Construction litigation 56
  • Conveyancing practice 51
  • Development cost charges 14
  • Development--general 75
  • Development rights 12
  • Environmental issues 20
  • Ethics 48
  • Expropriation 5
  • Financing 20
  • Foreclosure 46
  • Government approvals 6
  • Indian Act conveyancing 8
  • Land Title Office 23
  • Legal proceedings 114
  • Manufactured homes 11
  • Mortgages 30
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 3
  • Professional Responsibility 31
  • Purchase contract 33
  • Residential tenancies 13
  • Searches and investigations 18
  • Site development control 4
  • Statements of adjustments 2
  • Strata corporations 24
  • Strata plans 11
  • Strata properties--general 52
  • Structure of the developer 2
  • Subdivision 25
  • Surveys 7
  • Tax issues 79
  • Title 26
  • Undertakings 11
  • Vancouver Charter 3
  • Zoning 7
• School Law 43
• Secured Transactions 33
  • Chattel mortgages 1
  • Conflict of laws 1
  • Debtor protection 7
  • Due diligence 6
  • Enforcement 4
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 4
  • General 15
  • Intellectual property 3
  • Loans 1
  • Mortgages 7
  • Perfection 1
  • Purchase money security interests 3
  • Receivers 1
  • Registration 11
  • Security agreements 11
  • Security interests 7
• Securities 175
  • Appeals 4
  • BC Securities Commission 27
  • Disclosure 59
  • Due diligence 7
  • General 68
  • Hearings 15
  • Investigations 17
  • Judicial review 4
  • Local Policy Statements 6
  • National Registration Database 1
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 11
  • Offences 29
  • Orders 9
  • Practice 51
  • Private placement 14
  • Public offering 23
  • Regulation 54
  • Searches 4
  • Stockbrokers 3
  • Stock exchanges 28
  • Stock options 9
  • Takeover bids 27
  • Underwriters 2
• Solicitor 180
  • Conduct and the Law Society 44
  • Conflict of interest 35
  • Ethics 72
  • Solicitor-client privilege 68
• Tax 153
  • Aboriginal tax issues 10
  • Anti-avoidance rules
  • Appeals 3
  • Audits 6
  • Buying and selling a business 7
  • Capital gains 12
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 4
  • Collection practices and procedures 2
  • Corporate 42
  • Family law tax issues 27
  • Foreign income 3
  • General 9
  • Goods and Services Tax 13
  • Income splitting and attribution rules 2
  • Income tax 19
  • Intellectual property tax issues 2
  • Lawyers and law firms 6
  • Offshore taxation 5
  • Partnership 3
  • Pensions 1
  • Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 4
  • Practice 6
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 20
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 14
  • Reorganizations 9
  • Rollovers 10
  • Sales tax 10
  • Shares and shareholders 10
  • Tax litigation 5
  • Tax planning 11
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 48
• Technology Law 121
  • Intellectual property 20
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 7
  • Online contract formation 6
  • Practice 44
  • Privacy laws 38
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 17
  • Research 30
• Wills Estates and Trusts 295
  • Administration application 27
  • Adult guardianship 56
  • Charitable giving 9
  • Client Relations 52
  • Devolution of assets 39
  • Elder care 117
  • Estate litigation 78
  • Estate planning 142
  • Ethics 36
  • Executors and trustees 41
  • Fiduciary 3
  • General 55
  • Multijurisdictional estates 14
  • Probate application 24
  • Professional Responsibility 49
  • Tax issues 70
  • Trust planning 102
  • Wills 59
• Workers Compensation 75
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 5
  • Claims 43
  • General 35
  • Liability of employer 42
  • Procedure 28
  • Workers Compensation Board 11