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Practice Areas

• Aboriginal Law 118
  • Business and aboriginal law 18
  • Child protection 8
  • Criminal justice system 9
  • Family law 9
  • General 26
  • Lands and title 72
  • Litigation 23
  • Practice 12
  • Rights 40
  • Self-government 29
  • Tax issues 10
  • Treaty Negotiations 25
  • Trusts and fiduciary obligations 7
  • Wills and estates 2
• Administrative Law 81
  • Abuse of discretion 5
  • Appellate review 17
  • Charter cases 20
  • Discipline proceedings 10
  • Independence of tribunals and decision-makers 9
  • Judicial review 55
  • Jurisdiction 15
  • Natural justice 15
  • Practice 28
  • Remedies 19
  • Tribunals 35
• ADR 119
  • Arbitration 49
  • Collaborative law 4
  • Judicial review 7
  • Mediation 52
  • Mediation--family law 30
  • Practice 18
• Air Law 1
• Bankruptcy and Insolvency 32
  • Alternatives to bankruptcy 6
  • Appeals 3
  • Directors liability 10
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 7
  • General 21
  • Petitions 2
  • Practice 4
  • Priorities 15
  • Proposals 10
  • Receiving orders 4
  • Settlements and preferences 8
  • Trustees 6
• Builders Liens 18
• Business Law 218
  • Acquisitions and mergers 19
  • Amalgamations 4
  • Banking law 3
  • Buying and selling a business 30
  • Capital alterations 4
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 15
  • Client Relations 12
  • Commercial litigation 20
  • Competition law 5
  • Continuations 2
  • Contracts 31
  • Corporate finance 27
  • Corporate governance 34
  • Corporate procedures 34
  • Directors 19
  • Dissolution and restoration 3
  • Ethics 13
  • Extra-provincial companies 3
  • Fiduciary 7
  • Franchising 3
  • Fraud 11
  • Incorporation and organization 23
  • International 7
  • Partnerships 9
  • Practice 22
  • Privacy 8
  • Professional Responsibility 16
  • Searches
  • Shareholders 16
  • Shares 10
  • Tax issues 30
• Communications Law 1
• Creditors Remedies 34
  • Acting for the creditor 15
  • Acting for the debtor 13
  • Assets subject to attachment 7
  • Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 6
  • Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 1
  • Consumer Protection 1
  • Equitable remedies 5
  • Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 9
  • Injunctions and preservation orders 6
  • Postjudgment remedies 10
  • Prejudgment garnishment 6
  • Priorities 10
  • Proceeding to judgment 3
  • Repairers liens
  • Searches 4
• Criminal Law 59
  • Anti-terrorism 1
  • Appeals 7
  • Charter of Rights 24
  • Client Relations 6
  • Defences 11
  • Ethics 10
  • Evidence 31
  • Judicial interim release 5
  • Juries 2
  • Offences 25
  • Practice 17
  • Professional Responsibility 14
  • Sentencing 18
  • Young offenders 5
• Employment Law 100
  • Benefits 15
  • Client Relations 8
  • Compensation 12
  • Defamation 5
  • Discrimination 57
  • Duties and liabilities 32
  • Employment contracts 35
  • Employment standards 33
  • Ethics 3
  • General 32
  • Mandatory Retirement 9
  • Occupational health and safety 29
  • Pensions 13
  • Practice 12
  • Privacy 41
  • Professional Responsibility 6
  • Sexual harassment 15
  • Tax issues 4
  • Wrongful dismissal 38
• Environmental Law 29
  • Conservation covenants 2
  • Contaminated sites 11
  • Endangered species 2
  • Environmental assessment 11
  • Environmental protection 13
  • Forest practices 3
  • Insurance 4
  • Liability 11
  • Waste management 2
• Family Law 149
  • Adoption 5
  • ADR 42
  • Advocacy 1
  • Appeals 5
  • Child protection 31
  • Child support 53
  • Client Relations 31
  • Collaborative law 11
  • Common law spouses 10
  • Conflict of laws 7
  • Costs 8
  • Custody and access 51
  • Division of property 65
  • Divorce 12
  • Ethics 32
  • Evidence 34
  • General 35
  • Guardianship 26
  • Interim relief 21
  • Marriage 7
  • Marriage agreements 20
  • Mediation 23
  • Multiculturalism 9
  • Naming children 2
  • Orders 19
  • Pensions 11
  • Pleadings 35
  • Pre-nuptial agreements 11
  • Professional Responsibility 28
  • Property Agreements 9
  • Property Agreements 8
  • References to Registrar 2
  • Same-sex couples 6
  • Separation agreements 19
  • Spousal support 55
  • Tax issues 14
  • Unrepresented Litigants 20
• FOI and Privacy 63
• Health Law 22
  • Alternate Dispute Resolution 1
• Human Rights 115
  • BCHRA 30
  • Charter 54
  • CHRA 8
  • Client Relations 5
  • Discrimination 71
  • Ethics 5
  • Ethics 3
  • General 34
  • Procedure 21
  • Professional Responsibility 5
  • Remedies 11
• Immigration 51
  • Admission 32
  • Appeals 20
  • Business immigrants 16
  • Citizenship 15
  • Client Relations 11
  • Ethics 10
  • Extradition 14
  • Permanent residency 17
  • Policy 21
  • Practice 29
  • Professional Responsibility 8
  • Refugees 25
  • Tax issues 7
  • Visas 15
• Insurance 84
  • Accident, sickness and disability insurance 10
  • Agents 4
  • Claims 24
  • Contracts 27
  • Damages 8
  • Defences 19
  • Directors and officers insurance 7
  • Duties and liabilities 12
  • Exclusions 15
  • Fire insurance 4
  • Homeowners insurance 16
  • Lawyers liability insurance 6
  • Liability insurance generally 29
  • Life insurance 9
  • Litigation 29
  • Motor vehicle insurance 20
  • Municipal 1
  • Non Disclosure 6
  • Property and loss of income insurance 5
  • Subrogation 19
• Intellectual Property 29
  • Buying and selling intellectual property 6
  • Computer software and Internet issues 8
  • Copyright 15
  • Licensing 5
  • Patents 10
  • Remedies 8
  • Tax issues 3
  • Trade-marks 17
  • Trade secrets 12
• Labour Law 38
  • Arbitration 23
  • Certification and decertification 8
  • Collective bargaining and agreements 14
  • Industrial disputes 2
  • Injunctions
  • Labour Relations Board 15
  • Picketing 4
  • Practice 8
  • Successorship 4
  • Unfair labour practices 8
  • Unions 19
• Legal Research and Writing 11
• Legal Support Staff 95
  • Business law for LSS 15
  • Civil litigation for LSS 19
  • Collections for LSS 3
  • Conveyancing for LSS 9
  • Corporate records for LSS 7
  • Estate administration for LSS 10
  • Family law for LSS 16
  • Foreclosures for LSS 3
  • Personal injury practice for LSS 11
  • PPSA for LSS 2
  • Research for LSS 7
  • Securities for LSS 7
• Litigation 446
  • Aboriginal litigation 18
  • Advocacy skills 33
  • Appeals 24
  • Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
  • Causes of action 40
  • Chambers applications 53
  • Class actions 51
  • Client Relations 28
  • Commercial litigation 29
  • Conflict of laws 6
  • Constitutional 9
  • Costs 98
  • Damages 37
  • Defamation 8
  • Discovery 91
  • Economic Loss 2
  • Estate litigation 30
  • Ethics 54
  • Evidence 138
  • Experts 106
  • Host Liability 3
  • Infants 7
  • Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 2
  • Intellectual property litigation 6
  • Juries 22
  • Jurisdiction 40
  • Labour and employment litigation 18
  • Law Reform 13
  • Limitation of actions 12
  • Limitation Periods 16
  • Municipal 11
  • Orders 16
  • Pleadings 83
  • Practice 101
  • Pre-trial Procedures 50
  • Professional Responsibility 56
  • Real estate litigation 33
  • Remedies 5
  • Reviews 6
  • Securities litigation 6
  • Settlement 61
  • Summary trials 27
  • Tax issues for litigators 1
  • Tax litigation 3
  • Torts 24
  • Trials 84
  • Unrepresented Litigants 47
  • Vicarious liability 13
• Maritime Law 2
• Municipal Law 23
  • Actions by and against municipalities 4
  • Bylaws 8
  • Contracts 7
  • Development cost charges
  • Financial management 3
  • General 7
  • Land use planning 8
  • Licensing 2
  • Litigation 10
  • Municipal councils 5
  • Powers of municipality 10
  • Subdivision 2
  • Zoning 4
• Natural Resources 20
  • Aboriginal rights 8
  • Fisheries law 2
  • Forestry law 7
  • General 4
  • Mining law 11
  • Oil and gas law 5
  • Water 2
  • Wildlife 1
• Personal Injury 67
  • Client Relations 12
  • Damages 33
  • Defences 18
  • Ethics 10
  • Family compensation claims 6
  • Host Liability 6
  • Injuries 33
  • Insurance 18
  • Mediation 11
  • Medical malpractice 5
  • Motor vehicle accidents 34
  • Occupiers liability 5
  • Part 7 benefits 24
  • Practice 36
  • Professional Responsibility 13
  • Structured settlements and judgments 11
  • Tax issues 8
  • Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
• Practice Management 262
  • Billing 38
  • Client development 25
  • Client Relations 89
  • Conduct and the Law Society 33
  • Document management 50
  • Employee hiring and retention 15
  • Ethics 112
  • In House Counsel 3
  • Insurance 14
  • Management and organization of firms 23
  • Partnership issues 5
  • Professional Responsibility 10
  • Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
  • Solicitor-client privilege 30
  • Technology 31
  • Trust accounting 10
• Professional Responsibility and Ethics 148
  • Client Relations 61
  • Ethics 114
• Real Estate 158
  • Agents and brokers 6
  • Assessment 12
  • Builders liens see Builders Liens 6
  • Charges on title 12
  • Client Relations 26
  • Closing procedures 20
  • Commercial leases 28
  • Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
  • Construction contracts 26
  • Construction litigation 25
  • Conveyancing practice 21
  • Development cost charges 5
  • Development--general 33
  • Development rights 9
  • Environmental issues 15
  • Ethics 29
  • Expropriation 4
  • Financing 19
  • Foreclosure 18
  • Government approvals 2
  • Indian Act conveyancing 13
  • Land Title Office 22
  • Legal proceedings 44
  • Manufactured homes 4
  • Mortgages 30
  • Owner developers and strata corporations 2
  • Professional Responsibility 17
  • Purchase contract 26
  • Residential tenancies 10
  • Searches and investigations 10
  • Site development control 3
  • Statements of adjustments 3
  • Strata corporations 17
  • Strata plans 10
  • Strata properties--general 38
  • Structure of the developer 2
  • Subdivision 11
  • Surveys 5
  • Tax issues 48
  • Title 14
  • Undertakings 5
  • Vancouver Charter 3
  • Zoning 4
• School Law 12
• Secured Transactions 14
  • Chattel mortgages 1
  • Conflict of laws 1
  • Debtor protection 2
  • Due diligence 4
  • Enforcement 5
  • Fixtures, crops and accessions 5
  • General 5
  • Intellectual property 2
  • Loans 1
  • Mortgages 5
  • Perfection 1
  • Purchase money security interests 2
  • Receivers 1
  • Registration 3
  • Security agreements 5
  • Security interests 4
• Securities 42
  • Appeals 2
  • BC Securities Commission 10
  • Disclosure 24
  • Due diligence 5
  • General 25
  • Hearings 3
  • Investigations 4
  • Judicial review 5
  • Local Policy Statements 3
  • National Registration Database 1
  • Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
  • Offences 11
  • Orders 5
  • Practice 11
  • Private placement 11
  • Public offering 10
  • Regulation 21
  • Searches 2
  • Stockbrokers 1
  • Stock exchanges 10
  • Stock options 5
  • Takeover bids 12
  • Underwriters 1
• Solicitor 88
  • Conduct and the Law Society 29
  • Conflict of interest 26
  • Ethics 39
  • Solicitor-client privilege 31
• Tax 101
  • Aboriginal tax issues 7
  • Anti-avoidance rules 1
  • Appeals 3
  • Audits 5
  • Buying and selling a business 7
  • Capital gains 7
  • Charities and non-profit organizations 4
  • Collection practices and procedures 1
  • Corporate 19
  • Family law tax issues 10
  • Foreign income 4
  • General 6
  • Goods and Services Tax 17
  • Income splitting and attribution rules 2
  • Income tax 8
  • Intellectual property tax issues 2
  • Lawyers and law firms 6
  • Offshore taxation 4
  • Partnership 2
  • Pensions 1
  • Personal injury damages - see Personal injury - Tax issues and Personal injury - Structured settlements 2
  • Practice 7
  • Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 14
  • Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 10
  • Reorganizations 4
  • Rollovers 5
  • Sales tax 12
  • Shares and shareholders 6
  • Tax litigation 5
  • Tax planning 6
  • Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 34
• Technology Law 68
  • Intellectual property 10
  • Jurisdiction and the Internet 3
  • Online contract formation 3
  • Practice 26
  • Privacy laws 17
  • Publishing, defamation and freedom of speech 5
  • Research 13
• Wills Estates and Trusts 108
  • Administration application 20
  • Adult guardianship 26
  • Charitable giving 8
  • Client Relations 25
  • Devolution of assets 27
  • Elder care 32
  • Estate litigation 46
  • Estate planning 62
  • Ethics 19
  • Executors and trustees 28
  • Fiduciary 3
  • General 33
  • Multijurisdictional estates 10
  • Probate application 21
  • Professional Responsibility 26
  • Tax issues 40
  • Trust planning 55
  • Wills 35
• Workers Compensation 29
  • Assessments
  • Benefits 4
  • Claims 17
  • General 14
  • Liability of employer 14
  • Procedure 6
  • Workers Compensation Board 6