Practice Areas
- Aboriginal Law 381
- Administrative Law 258
- ADR 262
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 76
- Builders Liens 27
-
Business Law
504
- 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 27
- Commercial litigation 84
- Competition law 21
- Continuations 4
- Contracts 84
- Corporate finance 34
- Corporate governance 87
- Corporate procedures 39
- Directors 40
- Dissolution and restoration 3
- Ethics 21
- Extra-provincial companies 3
- Fiduciary 10
- Franchising 8
- Fraud 14
- Incorporation and organization 39
- International 6
- Partnerships 29
- Practice 61
- Privacy 10
- Professional Responsibility 45
- Searches
- Shareholders 42
- Shares 14
- Tax issues 45
- Communications Law 20
-
Creditors Remedies
81
- Acting for the creditor 36
- Acting for the debtor 25
- Assets subject to attachment 14
- 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 5
- Criminal Law 249
-
Employment Law
416
- Benefits 34
- Client Relations 13
- Compensation 39
- Defamation 8
- Discrimination 139
- Duties and liabilities 95
- Employment contracts 106
- Employment standards 81
- Ethics 6
- General 121
- Mandatory Retirement 11
- Occupational health and safety 78
- Pensions 27
- Practice 56
- Privacy 97
- Professional Responsibility 18
- Sexual harassment 28
- Tax issues 6
- Wrongful dismissal 141
- Environmental Law 87
-
Family Law
485
- Adoption 28
- ADR 81
- Advocacy
- Appeals 7
- Child protection 142
- 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 124
- Guardianship 82
- 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 52
- FOI and Privacy 135
- Health Law 59
- Human Rights 379
- Immigration 204
-
Insurance
225
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 25
- Agents 8
- Claims 68
- Contracts 51
- Damages 19
- Defences 38
- Directors and officers insurance 10
- Duties and liabilities 23
- Exclusions 40
- Fire insurance 9
- Homeowners insurance 24
- Lawyers liability insurance 9
- Liability insurance generally 63
- Life insurance 17
- Litigation 77
- Motor vehicle insurance 33
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 9
- Property and loss of income insurance 14
- Subrogation 31
- Intellectual Property 46
- Labour Law 152
- Legal Research and Writing 43
- Legal Support Staff 276
-
Litigation
1271
- Aboriginal litigation 39
- Advocacy skills 78
- Appeals 57
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 9
- Causes of action 109
- Chambers applications 89
- Class actions 102
- Client Relations 51
- Commercial litigation 110
- Conflict of laws 17
- Constitutional 28
- Costs 113
- Damages 72
- Defamation 33
- Discovery 168
- Economic Loss 2
- Estate litigation 56
- Ethics 103
- Evidence 346
- Experts 208
- Host Liability 8
- Infants 10
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
- Intellectual property litigation 12
- Juries 25
- Jurisdiction 76
- Labour and employment litigation 57
- Law Reform 41
- Limitation of actions 15
- Limitation Periods 34
- Municipal 14
- Orders 28
- Pleadings 161
- Practice 255
- Pre-trial Procedures 99
- Professional Responsibility 122
- Real estate litigation 106
- Remedies 24
- Reviews 9
- Securities litigation 33
- Settlement 88
- Summary trials 45
- Tax issues for litigators 1
- Tax litigation 4
- Torts 75
- Trials 182
- Unrepresented Litigants 60
- Vicarious liability 21
- Maritime Law 3
- Municipal Law 55
- Natural Resources 100
-
Personal Injury
276
- Client Relations 25
- Damages 89
- Defences 36
- Ethics 23
- Family compensation claims 9
- Host Liability 19
- Injuries 71
- Insurance 25
- Mediation 18
- Medical malpractice 7
- Motor vehicle accidents 73
- Occupiers liability 10
- Part 7 benefits 34
- Practice 111
- Professional Responsibility 32
- Structured settlements and judgments 19
- Tax issues 7
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
-
Practice Management
550
- Billing 65
- Client development 60
- Client Relations 216
- Conduct and the Law Society 51
- Document management 84
- Employee hiring and retention 41
- Ethics 242
- In House Counsel 5
- Insurance 18
- Management and organization of firms 65
- Partnership issues 20
- Professional Responsibility 21
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 8
- Solicitor-client privilege 71
- Technology 58
- Trust accounting 17
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 302
-
Real Estate
469
- Agents and brokers 26
- Assessment 34
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 19
- Charges on title 19
- Client Relations 30
- 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 38
- Expropriation 4
- Financing 19
- Foreclosure 44
- Government approvals 6
- Indian Act conveyancing 7
- Land Title Office 18
- Legal proceedings 111
- Manufactured homes 11
- Mortgages 28
- Owner developers and strata corporations 3
- Professional Responsibility 29
- 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
-
Securities
172
- Appeals 4
- BC Securities Commission 27
- Disclosure 59
- Due diligence 7
- General 67
- 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 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 176
-
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 110
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
281
- Administration application 27
- Adult guardianship 55
- Charitable giving 8
- Client Relations 51
- Devolution of assets 39
- Elder care 116
- Estate litigation 74
- Estate planning 130
- Ethics 36
- Executors and trustees 41
- Fiduciary 3
- General 55
- Multijurisdictional estates 14
- Probate application 23
- Professional Responsibility 48
- Tax issues 63
- Trust planning 93
- Wills 57
- Workers Compensation 74
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PRACTICE AREA
- Aboriginal Law 381
- Administrative Law 258
- ADR 262
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 76
- Builders Liens 27
-
Business Law
504
- 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 27
- Commercial litigation 84
- Competition law 21
- Continuations 4
- Contracts 84
- Corporate finance 34
- Corporate governance 87
- Corporate procedures 39
- Directors 40
- Dissolution and restoration 3
- Ethics 21
- Extra-provincial companies 3
- Fiduciary 10
- Franchising 8
- Fraud 14
- Incorporation and organization 39
- International 6
- Partnerships 29
- Practice 61
- Privacy 10
- Professional Responsibility 45
- Searches
- Shareholders 42
- Shares 14
- Tax issues 45
- Communications Law 20
-
Creditors Remedies
81
- Acting for the creditor 36
- Acting for the debtor 25
- Assets subject to attachment 14
- 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 5
- Criminal Law 249
-
Employment Law
416
- Benefits 34
- Client Relations 13
- Compensation 39
- Defamation 8
- Discrimination 139
- Duties and liabilities 95
- Employment contracts 106
- Employment standards 81
- Ethics 6
- General 121
- Mandatory Retirement 11
- Occupational health and safety 78
- Pensions 27
- Practice 56
- Privacy 97
- Professional Responsibility 18
- Sexual harassment 28
- Tax issues 6
- Wrongful dismissal 141
- Environmental Law 87
-
Family Law
485
- Adoption 28
- ADR 81
- Advocacy
- Appeals 7
- Child protection 142
- 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 124
- Guardianship 82
- 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 52
- FOI and Privacy 135
- Health Law 59
- Human Rights 379
- Immigration 204
-
Insurance
225
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 25
- Agents 8
- Claims 68
- Contracts 51
- Damages 19
- Defences 38
- Directors and officers insurance 10
- Duties and liabilities 23
- Exclusions 40
- Fire insurance 9
- Homeowners insurance 24
- Lawyers liability insurance 9
- Liability insurance generally 63
- Life insurance 17
- Litigation 77
- Motor vehicle insurance 33
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 9
- Property and loss of income insurance 14
- Subrogation 31
- Intellectual Property 46
- Labour Law 152
- Legal Research and Writing 43
- Legal Support Staff 276
-
Litigation
1271
- Aboriginal litigation 39
- Advocacy skills 78
- Appeals 57
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 9
- Causes of action 109
- Chambers applications 89
- Class actions 102
- Client Relations 51
- Commercial litigation 110
- Conflict of laws 17
- Constitutional 28
- Costs 113
- Damages 72
- Defamation 33
- Discovery 168
- Economic Loss 2
- Estate litigation 56
- Ethics 103
- Evidence 346
- Experts 208
- Host Liability 8
- Infants 10
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
- Intellectual property litigation 12
- Juries 25
- Jurisdiction 76
- Labour and employment litigation 57
- Law Reform 41
- Limitation of actions 15
- Limitation Periods 34
- Municipal 14
- Orders 28
- Pleadings 161
- Practice 255
- Pre-trial Procedures 99
- Professional Responsibility 122
- Real estate litigation 106
- Remedies 24
- Reviews 9
- Securities litigation 33
- Settlement 88
- Summary trials 45
- Tax issues for litigators 1
- Tax litigation 4
- Torts 75
- Trials 182
- Unrepresented Litigants 60
- Vicarious liability 21
- Maritime Law 3
- Municipal Law 55
- Natural Resources 100
-
Personal Injury
276
- Client Relations 25
- Damages 89
- Defences 36
- Ethics 23
- Family compensation claims 9
- Host Liability 19
- Injuries 71
- Insurance 25
- Mediation 18
- Medical malpractice 7
- Motor vehicle accidents 73
- Occupiers liability 10
- Part 7 benefits 34
- Practice 111
- Professional Responsibility 32
- Structured settlements and judgments 19
- Tax issues 7
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
-
Practice Management
550
- Billing 65
- Client development 60
- Client Relations 216
- Conduct and the Law Society 51
- Document management 84
- Employee hiring and retention 41
- Ethics 242
- In House Counsel 5
- Insurance 18
- Management and organization of firms 65
- Partnership issues 20
- Professional Responsibility 21
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 8
- Solicitor-client privilege 71
- Technology 58
- Trust accounting 17
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 302
-
Real Estate
469
- Agents and brokers 26
- Assessment 34
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 19
- Charges on title 19
- Client Relations 30
- 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 38
- Expropriation 4
- Financing 19
- Foreclosure 44
- Government approvals 6
- Indian Act conveyancing 7
- Land Title Office 18
- Legal proceedings 111
- Manufactured homes 11
- Mortgages 28
- Owner developers and strata corporations 3
- Professional Responsibility 29
- 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
-
Securities
172
- Appeals 4
- BC Securities Commission 27
- Disclosure 59
- Due diligence 7
- General 67
- 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 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 176
-
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 110
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
281
- Administration application 27
- Adult guardianship 55
- Charitable giving 8
- Client Relations 51
- Devolution of assets 39
- Elder care 116
- Estate litigation 74
- Estate planning 130
- Ethics 36
- Executors and trustees 41
- Fiduciary 3
- General 55
- Multijurisdictional estates 14
- Probate application 23
- Professional Responsibility 48
- Tax issues 63
- Trust planning 93
- Wills 57
- Workers Compensation 74
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