Practice Areas
- Aboriginal Law 119
- Administrative Law 77
- ADR 121
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 32
- Builders Liens 18
-
Business Law
204
- Acquisitions and mergers 15
- Amalgamations 4
- Banking law 3
- Buying and selling a business 27
- Capital alterations 3
- Charities and non-profit organizations 15
- Client Relations 13
- Commercial litigation 21
- Competition law 5
- Continuations 3
- Contracts 32
- Corporate finance 21
- Corporate governance 29
- Corporate procedures 33
- Directors 18
- Dissolution and restoration 3
- Ethics 11
- Extra-provincial companies 3
- Fiduciary 7
- Franchising 4
- Fraud 11
- Incorporation and organization 21
- International 5
- Partnerships 9
- Practice 18
- Privacy 7
- Professional Responsibility 15
- Searches
- Shareholders 16
- Shares 10
- Tax issues 25
- Communications Law 1
-
Creditors Remedies
37
- Acting for the creditor 18
- Acting for the debtor 15
- Assets subject to attachment 9
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 9
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 3
- Consumer Protection 1
- Equitable remedies 6
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 11
- Injunctions and preservation orders 7
- Postjudgment remedies 12
- Prejudgment garnishment 7
- Priorities 11
- Proceeding to judgment 4
- Repairers liens 1
- Searches 4
- Criminal Law 58
-
Employment Law
99
- Benefits 15
- Client Relations 7
- Compensation 13
- Defamation 5
- Discrimination 58
- Duties and liabilities 31
- Employment contracts 33
- Employment standards 33
- Ethics 4
- General 33
- Mandatory Retirement 9
- Occupational health and safety 30
- Pensions 14
- Practice 12
- Privacy 42
- Professional Responsibility 7
- Sexual harassment 16
- Tax issues 4
- Wrongful dismissal 38
- Environmental Law 29
-
Family Law
144
- Adoption 5
- ADR 39
- Advocacy
- Appeals 4
- Child protection 33
- Child support 54
- Client Relations 32
- Collaborative law 11
- Common law spouses 10
- Conflict of laws 7
- Costs 7
- Custody and access 52
- Division of property 60
- Divorce 13
- Ethics 34
- Evidence 36
- General 30
- Guardianship 24
- Interim relief 22
- Marriage 7
- Marriage agreements 19
- Mediation 23
- Multiculturalism 10
- Naming children 2
- Orders 18
- Pensions 8
- Pleadings 34
- Pre-nuptial agreements 11
- Professional Responsibility 28
- Property Agreements 9
- Property Agreements 8
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 6
- Separation agreements 18
- Spousal support 57
- Tax issues 14
- Unrepresented Litigants 21
- FOI and Privacy 64
- Health Law 22
- Human Rights 114
- Immigration 52
-
Insurance
86
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 11
- Agents 4
- Claims 27
- Contracts 28
- Damages 11
- Defences 20
- Directors and officers insurance 8
- Duties and liabilities 12
- Exclusions 17
- Fire insurance 5
- Homeowners insurance 16
- Lawyers liability insurance 7
- Liability insurance generally 31
- Life insurance 9
- Litigation 31
- Motor vehicle insurance 18
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 5
- Property and loss of income insurance 7
- Subrogation 17
- Intellectual Property 23
- Labour Law 38
- Legal Research and Writing 11
- Legal Support Staff 93
-
Litigation
440
- Aboriginal litigation 18
- Advocacy skills 28
- Appeals 25
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
- Causes of action 37
- Chambers applications 54
- Class actions 50
- Client Relations 26
- Commercial litigation 30
- Conflict of laws 6
- Constitutional 8
- Costs 98
- Damages 35
- Defamation 7
- Discovery 88
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 31
- Ethics 53
- Evidence 136
- Experts 103
- Host Liability 3
- Infants 6
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
- Intellectual property litigation 6
- Juries 21
- Jurisdiction 38
- Labour and employment litigation 18
- Law Reform 11
- Limitation of actions 11
- Limitation Periods 16
- Municipal 11
- Orders 16
- Pleadings 81
- Practice 93
- Pre-trial Procedures 46
- Professional Responsibility 54
- Real estate litigation 33
- Remedies 5
- Reviews 6
- Securities litigation 6
- Settlement 61
- Summary trials 25
- Tax issues for litigators 1
- Tax litigation 3
- Torts 23
- Trials 84
- Unrepresented Litigants 44
- Vicarious liability 13
- Maritime Law 2
- Municipal Law 22
- Natural Resources 20
-
Personal Injury
63
- Client Relations 11
- Damages 32
- Defences 18
- Ethics 10
- Family compensation claims 6
- Host Liability 6
- Injuries 31
- Insurance 17
- Mediation 10
- Medical malpractice 5
- Motor vehicle accidents 32
- Occupiers liability 5
- Part 7 benefits 23
- Practice 35
- Professional Responsibility 13
- Structured settlements and judgments 11
- Tax issues 7
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
-
Practice Management
270
- Billing 37
- Client development 30
- Client Relations 91
- Conduct and the Law Society 36
- Document management 51
- Employee hiring and retention 21
- Ethics 124
- In House Counsel 3
- Insurance 16
- Management and organization of firms 30
- Partnership issues 5
- Professional Responsibility 10
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
- Solicitor-client privilege 34
- Technology 37
- Trust accounting 9
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 154
-
Real Estate
159
- Agents and brokers 5
- Assessment 12
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 7
- Charges on title 13
- Client Relations 23
- Closing procedures 22
- Commercial leases 29
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 26
- Construction litigation 21
- Conveyancing practice 20
- Development cost charges 5
- Development--general 28
- Development rights 8
- Environmental issues 14
- Ethics 26
- Expropriation 4
- Financing 18
- Foreclosure 19
- Government approvals 3
- Indian Act conveyancing 12
- Land Title Office 18
- Legal proceedings 46
- Manufactured homes 6
- Mortgages 32
- 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 18
- Strata plans 9
- Strata properties--general 39
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 8
- Surveys 3
- Tax issues 47
- Title 12
- Undertakings 7
- Vancouver Charter 3
- Zoning 4
- School Law 12
- Secured Transactions 14
-
Securities
42
- Appeals 3
- BC Securities Commission 11
- Disclosure 24
- Due diligence 5
- General 24
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 5
- Judicial review 5
- Local Policy Statements 3
- National Registration Database 1
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
- Offences 12
- Orders 6
- Practice 10
- Private placement 11
- Public offering 10
- Regulation 21
- Searches 2
- Stockbrokers 1
- Stock exchanges 11
- Stock options 5
- Takeover bids 13
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 88
-
Tax
98
- Aboriginal tax issues 7
- Anti-avoidance rules
- Appeals 3
- Audits 5
- Buying and selling a business 6
- Capital gains 7
- Charities and non-profit organizations 3
- Collection practices and procedures 1
- Corporate 18
- Family law tax issues 10
- Foreign income 3
- General 4
- Goods and Services Tax 18
- 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 3
- Practice 6
- Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 15
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 11
- Reorganizations 3
- Rollovers 5
- Sales tax 13
- Shares and shareholders 5
- Tax litigation 5
- Tax planning 6
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 34
- Technology Law 60
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
106
- Administration application 19
- Adult guardianship 26
- Charitable giving 9
- Client Relations 27
- Devolution of assets 27
- Elder care 35
- Estate litigation 48
- Estate planning 60
- Ethics 19
- Executors and trustees 31
- Fiduciary 3
- General 29
- Multijurisdictional estates 9
- Probate application 21
- Professional Responsibility 23
- Tax issues 41
- Trust planning 56
- Wills 37
- Workers Compensation 30
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PRACTICE AREA
- Aboriginal Law 119
- Administrative Law 77
- ADR 121
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 32
- Builders Liens 18
-
Business Law
204
- Acquisitions and mergers 15
- Amalgamations 4
- Banking law 3
- Buying and selling a business 27
- Capital alterations 3
- Charities and non-profit organizations 15
- Client Relations 13
- Commercial litigation 21
- Competition law 5
- Continuations 3
- Contracts 32
- Corporate finance 21
- Corporate governance 29
- Corporate procedures 33
- Directors 18
- Dissolution and restoration 3
- Ethics 11
- Extra-provincial companies 3
- Fiduciary 7
- Franchising 4
- Fraud 11
- Incorporation and organization 21
- International 5
- Partnerships 9
- Practice 18
- Privacy 7
- Professional Responsibility 15
- Searches
- Shareholders 16
- Shares 10
- Tax issues 25
- Communications Law 1
-
Creditors Remedies
37
- Acting for the creditor 18
- Acting for the debtor 15
- Assets subject to attachment 9
- Bankruptcy remedies in the collection process 9
- Builders liens -- see Builders Liens 3
- Consumer Protection 1
- Equitable remedies 6
- Fraudulent conveyances and preferences 11
- Injunctions and preservation orders 7
- Postjudgment remedies 12
- Prejudgment garnishment 7
- Priorities 11
- Proceeding to judgment 4
- Repairers liens 1
- Searches 4
- Criminal Law 58
-
Employment Law
99
- Benefits 15
- Client Relations 7
- Compensation 13
- Defamation 5
- Discrimination 58
- Duties and liabilities 31
- Employment contracts 33
- Employment standards 33
- Ethics 4
- General 33
- Mandatory Retirement 9
- Occupational health and safety 30
- Pensions 14
- Practice 12
- Privacy 42
- Professional Responsibility 7
- Sexual harassment 16
- Tax issues 4
- Wrongful dismissal 38
- Environmental Law 29
-
Family Law
144
- Adoption 5
- ADR 39
- Advocacy
- Appeals 4
- Child protection 33
- Child support 54
- Client Relations 32
- Collaborative law 11
- Common law spouses 10
- Conflict of laws 7
- Costs 7
- Custody and access 52
- Division of property 60
- Divorce 13
- Ethics 34
- Evidence 36
- General 30
- Guardianship 24
- Interim relief 22
- Marriage 7
- Marriage agreements 19
- Mediation 23
- Multiculturalism 10
- Naming children 2
- Orders 18
- Pensions 8
- Pleadings 34
- Pre-nuptial agreements 11
- Professional Responsibility 28
- Property Agreements 9
- Property Agreements 8
- References to Registrar 1
- Same-sex couples 6
- Separation agreements 18
- Spousal support 57
- Tax issues 14
- Unrepresented Litigants 21
- FOI and Privacy 64
- Health Law 22
- Human Rights 114
- Immigration 52
-
Insurance
86
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 11
- Agents 4
- Claims 27
- Contracts 28
- Damages 11
- Defences 20
- Directors and officers insurance 8
- Duties and liabilities 12
- Exclusions 17
- Fire insurance 5
- Homeowners insurance 16
- Lawyers liability insurance 7
- Liability insurance generally 31
- Life insurance 9
- Litigation 31
- Motor vehicle insurance 18
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 5
- Property and loss of income insurance 7
- Subrogation 17
- Intellectual Property 23
- Labour Law 38
- Legal Research and Writing 11
- Legal Support Staff 93
-
Litigation
440
- Aboriginal litigation 18
- Advocacy skills 28
- Appeals 25
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
- Causes of action 37
- Chambers applications 54
- Class actions 50
- Client Relations 26
- Commercial litigation 30
- Conflict of laws 6
- Constitutional 8
- Costs 98
- Damages 35
- Defamation 7
- Discovery 88
- Economic Loss 1
- Estate litigation 31
- Ethics 53
- Evidence 136
- Experts 103
- Host Liability 3
- Infants 6
- Insurance litigation -- see Insurance 3
- Intellectual property litigation 6
- Juries 21
- Jurisdiction 38
- Labour and employment litigation 18
- Law Reform 11
- Limitation of actions 11
- Limitation Periods 16
- Municipal 11
- Orders 16
- Pleadings 81
- Practice 93
- Pre-trial Procedures 46
- Professional Responsibility 54
- Real estate litigation 33
- Remedies 5
- Reviews 6
- Securities litigation 6
- Settlement 61
- Summary trials 25
- Tax issues for litigators 1
- Tax litigation 3
- Torts 23
- Trials 84
- Unrepresented Litigants 44
- Vicarious liability 13
- Maritime Law 2
- Municipal Law 22
- Natural Resources 20
-
Personal Injury
63
- Client Relations 11
- Damages 32
- Defences 18
- Ethics 10
- Family compensation claims 6
- Host Liability 6
- Injuries 31
- Insurance 17
- Mediation 10
- Medical malpractice 5
- Motor vehicle accidents 32
- Occupiers liability 5
- Part 7 benefits 23
- Practice 35
- Professional Responsibility 13
- Structured settlements and judgments 11
- Tax issues 7
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
-
Practice Management
270
- Billing 37
- Client development 30
- Client Relations 91
- Conduct and the Law Society 36
- Document management 51
- Employee hiring and retention 21
- Ethics 124
- In House Counsel 3
- Insurance 16
- Management and organization of firms 30
- Partnership issues 5
- Professional Responsibility 10
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
- Solicitor-client privilege 34
- Technology 37
- Trust accounting 9
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 154
-
Real Estate
159
- Agents and brokers 5
- Assessment 12
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 7
- Charges on title 13
- Client Relations 23
- Closing procedures 22
- Commercial leases 29
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 26
- Construction litigation 21
- Conveyancing practice 20
- Development cost charges 5
- Development--general 28
- Development rights 8
- Environmental issues 14
- Ethics 26
- Expropriation 4
- Financing 18
- Foreclosure 19
- Government approvals 3
- Indian Act conveyancing 12
- Land Title Office 18
- Legal proceedings 46
- Manufactured homes 6
- Mortgages 32
- 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 18
- Strata plans 9
- Strata properties--general 39
- Structure of the developer 1
- Subdivision 8
- Surveys 3
- Tax issues 47
- Title 12
- Undertakings 7
- Vancouver Charter 3
- Zoning 4
- School Law 12
- Secured Transactions 14
-
Securities
42
- Appeals 3
- BC Securities Commission 11
- Disclosure 24
- Due diligence 5
- General 24
- Hearings 4
- Investigations 5
- Judicial review 5
- Local Policy Statements 3
- National Registration Database 1
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
- Offences 12
- Orders 6
- Practice 10
- Private placement 11
- Public offering 10
- Regulation 21
- Searches 2
- Stockbrokers 1
- Stock exchanges 11
- Stock options 5
- Takeover bids 13
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 88
-
Tax
98
- Aboriginal tax issues 7
- Anti-avoidance rules
- Appeals 3
- Audits 5
- Buying and selling a business 6
- Capital gains 7
- Charities and non-profit organizations 3
- Collection practices and procedures 1
- Corporate 18
- Family law tax issues 10
- Foreign income 3
- General 4
- Goods and Services Tax 18
- 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 3
- Practice 6
- Property transfer tax (see also Real Estate - Tax issues) 15
- Real property - See Real Estate - Assessment and Real Estate - Tax issues 11
- Reorganizations 3
- Rollovers 5
- Sales tax 13
- Shares and shareholders 5
- Tax litigation 5
- Tax planning 6
- Wills, estates and trusts tax issues 34
- Technology Law 60
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
106
- Administration application 19
- Adult guardianship 26
- Charitable giving 9
- Client Relations 27
- Devolution of assets 27
- Elder care 35
- Estate litigation 48
- Estate planning 60
- Ethics 19
- Executors and trustees 31
- Fiduciary 3
- General 29
- Multijurisdictional estates 9
- Probate application 21
- Professional Responsibility 23
- Tax issues 41
- Trust planning 56
- Wills 37
- Workers Compensation 30
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