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Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 366
  • Business and aboriginal law 52
  • Child protection 57
  • Criminal justice system 40
  • Family law 47
  • General 128
  • Lands and title 140
  • Litigation 63
  • Practice 77
  • Rights 172
  • Self-government 90
  • Tax issues 13
  • Treaty Negotiations 52
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 17
  • Wills and estates 2
• Administrative Law 257
  • Abuse of discretion 11
  • Appellate review 24
  • Charter cases 20
  • Discipline proceedings 47
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 19
  • Judicial review 116
  • Jurisdiction 28
  • Natural justice 21
  • Practice 81
  • Remedies 27
  • Tribunals 89
• ADR 258
  • Arbitration 96
  • Collaborative law 13
  • Judicial review 16
  • Mediation 77
  • Mediation--family law 57
  • Practice 66
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 76
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 12
  • Appeals 6
  • Directors liability 12
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 13
  • General 61
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 12
  • Priorities 27
  • Proposals 20
  • Receiving orders 5
  • Settlements and preferences 18
  • Trustees 11
• Builders Liens 27
• Business Law 496
  • Acquisitions and mergers 60
  • Amalgamations 7
  • Banking law 9
  • Buying and selling a business 60
  • Capital alterations 5
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 65
  • Client Relations 26
  • Commercial litigation 84
  • Competition law 21
  • Continuations 4
  • Contracts 84
  • Corporate finance 34
  • Corporate governance 85
  • Corporate procedures 39
  • Directors 39
  • Dissolution and restoration 3
  • Ethics 20
  • Extra-provincial companies 3
  • Fiduciary 10
  • Franchising 8
  • Fraud 14
  • Incorporation and organization 39
  • International 6
  • Partnerships 29
  • Practice 56
  • Privacy 8
  • Professional Responsibility 42
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 42
  • Shares 14
  • Tax issues 45
• Communications Law 18
• Creditors Remedies 78
  • Acting for the creditor 33
  • Acting for the debtor 22
  • Assets subject to attachment 13
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 20
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 11
  • Consumer Protection 1
  • Equitable remedies 6
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 14
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 8
  • Postjudgment remedies 12
  • Prejudgment garnishment 4
  • Priorities 22
  • Proceeding to judgment 1
  • Repairers liens 1
  • Searches 4
• Criminal Law 249
  • Anti-terrorism 1
  • Appeals 12
  • Charter of Rights 60
  • Client Relations 11
  • Defences 40
  • Ethics 14
  • Evidence 112
  • Judicial interim release 14
  • Juries 5
  • Offences 57
  • Practice 66
  • Professional Responsibility 34
  • Sentencing 62
  • Young offenders 19
• Employment Law 414
  • Benefits 34
  • Client Relations 13
  • Compensation 39
  • Defamation 7
  • Discrimination 139
  • Duties and liabilities 95
  • Employment contracts 106
  • Employment standards 81
  • Ethics 6
  • General 120
  • Mandatory Retirement 11
  • Occupational health and safety 78
  • Pensions 27
  • Practice 55
  • Privacy 96
  • Professional Responsibility 18
  • Sexual harassment 28
  • Tax issues 6
  • Wrongful dismissal 141
• Environmental Law 84
  • Conservation covenants 2
  • Contaminated sites 30
  • Endangered species 2
  • Environmental assessment 25
  • Environmental protection 36
  • Forest practices 4
  • Insurance 5
  • Liability 33
  • Waste management 3
• Family Law 473
  • Adoption 28
  • ADR 78
  • Advocacy
  • Appeals 7
  • Child protection 141
  • Child support 96
  • Client Relations 127
  • Collaborative law 18
  • Common law spouses 20
  • Conflict of laws 14
  • Costs 8
  • Custody and access 137
  • Division of property 135
  • Divorce 29
  • Ethics 99
  • Evidence 80
  • General 120
  • Guardianship 80
  • Interim relief 34
  • Marriage 10
  • Marriage agreements 27
  • Mediation 51
  • Multiculturalism 54
  • Naming children 2
  • Orders 49
  • Pensions 8
  • Pleadings 87
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 16
  • Professional Responsibility 85
  • Property Agreements 14
  • Property Agreements 14
  • References to Registrar 1
  • Same-sex couples 15
  • Separation agreements 37
  • Spousal support 99
  • Tax issues 32
  • Unrepresented Litigants 50
• FOI and Privacy 135
• Health Law 59
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 379
  • BCHRA 85
  • Charter 143
  • CHRA 22
  • Client Relations 30
  • Discrimination 200
  • Ethics 25
  • Ethics 15
  • General 143
  • Procedure 55
  • Professional Responsibility 29
  • Remedies 40
• Immigration 199
  • Admission 95
  • Appeals 52
  • Business immigrants 57
  • Citizenship 23
  • Client Relations 31
  • Ethics 18
  • Extradition 18
  • Permanent residency 20
  • Policy 64
  • Practice 95
  • Professional Responsibility 24
  • Refugees 68
  • Tax issues 7
  • Visas 36
• Insurance 225
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 25
  • Agents 8
  • Claims 67
  • Contracts 50
  • Damages 19
  • Defences 38
  • Directors and officers insurance 10
  • Duties and liabilities 22
  • Exclusions 40
  • Fire insurance 9
  • Homeowners insurance 24
  • Lawyers liability insurance 9
  • Liability insurance generally 62
  • Life insurance 15
  • Litigation 76
  • Motor vehicle insurance 33
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 8
  • Property and loss of income insurance 14
  • Subrogation 31
• Intellectual Property 46
  • 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 152
  • Arbitration 82
  • Certification and decertification 11
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 22
  • Industrial disputes 3
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 28
  • Picketing 11
  • Practice 18
  • Successorship 7
  • Unfair labour practices 13
  • Unions 50
• Legal Research and Writing 42
• Legal Support Staff 270
  • Business law for LSS 15
  • Civil litigation for LSS 72
  • Collections for LSS 10
  • Conveyancing for LSS 21
  • Corporate records for LSS 11
  • Estate administration for LSS 19
  • Family law for LSS 35
  • Foreclosures for LSS 14
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 65
  • PPSA for LSS 10
  • Research for LSS 7
  • Securities for LSS 25
• Litigation 1243
  • Aboriginal litigation 39
  • Advocacy skills 77
  • Appeals 57
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 9
  • Causes of action 108
  • Chambers applications 86
  • Class actions 101
  • Client Relations 45
  • Commercial litigation 110
  • Conflict of laws 17
  • Constitutional 28
  • Costs 113
  • Damages 72
  • Defamation 30
  • Discovery 160
  • Economic Loss 2
  • Estate litigation 56
  • Ethics 86
  • Evidence 341
  • Experts 203
  • Host Liability 8
  • Infants 6
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
  • Intellectual property litigation 12
  • Juries 25
  • Jurisdiction 76
  • Labour and employment litigation 57
  • Law Reform 34
  • Limitation of actions 15
  • Limitation Periods 34
  • Municipal 14
  • Orders 28
  • Pleadings 158
  • Practice 228
  • Pre-trial Procedures 96
  • Professional Responsibility 109
  • Real estate litigation 104
  • Remedies 24
  • Reviews 9
  • Securities litigation 33
  • Settlement 85
  • Summary trials 39
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation 4
  • Torts 75
  • Trials 182
  • Unrepresented Litigants 53
  • Vicarious liability 21
• Maritime Law 3
• Municipal Law 55
  • Actions by and against municipalities 5
  • Bylaws 10
  • Contracts 9
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management 3
  • General 19
  • Land use planning 12
  • Licensing 3
  • Litigation 16
  • Municipal councils 12
  • Powers of municipality 25
  • Subdivision 8
  • Zoning 5
• Natural Resources 96
  • Aboriginal rights 23
  • Fisheries law 3
  • Forestry law 31
  • General 25
  • Mining law 46
  • Oil and gas law 8
  • Water 1
  • Wildlife 2
• Personal Injury 273
  • Client Relations 23
  • Damages 89
  • Defences 36
  • Ethics 23
  • Family compensation claims 9
  • Host Liability 19
  • Injuries 70
  • Insurance 25
  • Mediation 18
  • Medical malpractice 7
  • Motor vehicle accidents 72
  • Occupiers liability 10
  • Part 7 benefits 34
  • Practice 110
  • Professional Responsibility 30
  • Structured settlements and judgments 19
  • Tax issues 7
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 495
  • Billing 65
  • Client development 59
  • Client Relations 188
  • Conduct and the Law Society 47
  • Document management 84
  • Employee hiring and retention 41
  • Ethics 224
  • In House Counsel 5
  • Insurance 18
  • Management and organization of firms 53
  • Partnership issues 20
  • Professional Responsibility 14
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 8
  • Solicitor-client privilege 68
  • Technology 55
  • Trust accounting 17
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 262
  • Client Relations 119
  • Ethics 234
• Real Estate 464
  • Agents and brokers 26
  • Assessment 34
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 18
  • Charges on title 19
  • Client Relations 24
  • Closing procedures 29
  • Commercial leases 51
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 4
  • Construction contracts 71
  • Construction litigation 53
  • Conveyancing practice 43
  • Development cost charges 14
  • Development--general 67
  • Development rights 12
  • Environmental issues 20
  • Ethics 33
  • Expropriation 4
  • Financing 19
  • Foreclosure 41
  • Government approvals 6
  • Indian Act conveyancing 7
  • Land Title Office 18
  • Legal proceedings 109
  • Manufactured homes 11
  • Mortgages 28
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 3
  • Professional Responsibility 26
  • Purchase contract 30
  • Residential tenancies 13
  • Searches and investigations 15
  • Site development control 4
  • Statements of adjustments 2
  • Strata corporations 24
  • Strata plans 10
  • Strata properties--general 47
  • Structure of the developer 2
  • Subdivision 24
  • Surveys 6
  • Tax issues 69
  • Title 23
  • Undertakings 10
  • Vancouver Charter 3
  • Zoning 7
• School Law 43
• Secured Transactions 30
  • Chattel mortgages 1
  • Conflict of laws 1
  • Debtor protection 7
  • Due diligence 6
  • Enforcement 3
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 4
  • General 12
  • Intellectual property 3
  • Loans 1
  • Mortgages 7
  • Perfection 1
  • Purchase money security interests 3
  • Receivers 1
  • Registration 11
  • Security agreements 9
  • Security interests 4
• Securities 171
  • Appeals 4
  • BC Securities Commission 27
  • Disclosure 59
  • Due diligence 7
  • General 67
  • Hearings 15
  • Investigations 16
  • Judicial review 4
  • Local Policy Statements 6
  • National Registration Database 1
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 11
  • Offences 29
  • Orders 9
  • Practice 47
  • Private placement 14
  • Public offering 23
  • Regulation 54
  • Searches 4
  • Stockbrokers 3
  • Stock exchanges 28
  • Stock options 9
  • Takeover bids 27
  • Underwriters 2
• Solicitor 166
  • Conduct and the Law Society 42
  • Conflict of interest 35
  • Ethics 69
  • Solicitor-client privilege 53
• Tax 143
  • 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 24
  • Foreign income 3
  • General 9
  • Goods and Services Tax 13
  • Income splitting and attribution rules 2
  • Income tax 16
  • 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) 17
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 12
  • Reorganizations 9
  • Rollovers 10
  • Sales tax 10
  • Shares and shareholders 10
  • Tax litigation 5
  • Tax planning 11
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 47
• Technology Law 104
  • Intellectual property 20
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 3
  • Online contract formation 6
  • Practice 38
  • Privacy laws 30
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 16
  • Research 29
• Wills Estates and Trusts 279
  • Administration application 27
  • Adult guardianship 49
  • Charitable giving 8
  • Client Relations 47
  • Devolution of assets 39
  • Elder care 116
  • Estate litigation 74
  • Estate planning 130
  • Ethics 33
  • Executors and trustees 41
  • Fiduciary 3
  • General 55
  • Multijurisdictional estates 14
  • Probate application 22
  • Professional Responsibility 47
  • Tax issues 63
  • Trust planning 93
  • Wills 57
• Workers Compensation 74
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 5
  • Claims 42
  • General 34
  • Liability of employer 41
  • Procedure 28
  • Workers Compensation Board 10