Practice Areas
- Aboriginal Law 119
- Administrative Law 81
- ADR 119
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 34
- Builders Liens 18
-
Business Law
220
- Acquisitions and mergers 20
- Amalgamations 5
- Banking law 3
- Buying and selling a business 31
- Capital alterations 4
- Charities and non-profit organizations 15
- Client Relations 12
- Commercial litigation 20
- Competition law 5
- Continuations 3
- Contracts 32
- 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 12
- Incorporation and organization 23
- International 8
- Partnerships 9
- Practice 23
- 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 60
-
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
-
Family Law
153
- Adoption 5
- ADR 43
- Advocacy 1
- Appeals 6
- Child protection 33
- Child support 55
- Client Relations 33
- Collaborative law 11
- Common law spouses 10
- Conflict of laws 7
- Costs 8
- Custody and access 53
- Division of property 65
- Divorce 13
- Ethics 33
- Evidence 35
- General 36
- Guardianship 26
- Interim relief 22
- Marriage 8
- Marriage agreements 20
- Mediation 23
- Multiculturalism 10
- Naming children 2
- Orders 19
- Pensions 11
- Pleadings 37
- Pre-nuptial agreements 11
- Professional Responsibility 30
- Property Agreements 9
- Property Agreements 8
- References to Registrar 2
- Same-sex couples 6
- Separation agreements 19
- Spousal support 56
- Tax issues 14
- Unrepresented Litigants 20
- FOI and Privacy 63
- Health Law 22
- Human Rights 115
- Immigration 52
-
Insurance
87
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 11
- Agents 4
- Claims 26
- Contracts 29
- Damages 10
- Defences 19
- Directors and officers insurance 8
- Duties and liabilities 12
- Exclusions 17
- Fire insurance 4
- Homeowners insurance 16
- Lawyers liability insurance 6
- Liability insurance generally 30
- Life insurance 9
- Litigation 30
- Motor vehicle insurance 20
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 6
- Property and loss of income insurance 7
- Subrogation 19
- Intellectual Property 29
- Labour Law 38
- Legal Research and Writing 11
- Legal Support Staff 96
-
Litigation
448
- 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 35
- 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
- Natural Resources 20
-
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
271
- Billing 38
- Client development 28
- Client Relations 91
- Conduct and the Law Society 35
- Document management 51
- Employee hiring and retention 15
- Ethics 119
- In House Counsel 4
- Insurance 14
- Management and organization of firms 24
- Partnership issues 6
- Professional Responsibility 10
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
- Solicitor-client privilege 32
- Technology 32
- Trust accounting 10
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 158
-
Real Estate
161
- Agents and brokers 6
- Assessment 12
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 6
- Charges on title 12
- Client Relations 27
- Closing procedures 21
- Commercial leases 29
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 26
- Construction litigation 25
- Conveyancing practice 23
- Development cost charges 5
- Development--general 33
- Development rights 9
- Environmental issues 15
- Ethics 29
- Expropriation 4
- Financing 19
- Foreclosure 18
- Government approvals 3
- Indian Act conveyancing 13
- Land Title Office 23
- Legal proceedings 46
- Manufactured homes 5
- Mortgages 30
- Owner developers and strata corporations 2
- Professional Responsibility 18
- Purchase contract 27
- Residential tenancies 10
- Searches and investigations 11
- 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 6
- Vancouver Charter 3
- Zoning 4
- School Law 12
- Secured Transactions 14
-
Securities
43
- Appeals 3
- BC Securities Commission 11
- Disclosure 25
- Due diligence 5
- General 26
- 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 12
- Private placement 11
- Public offering 11
- Regulation 22
- Searches 2
- Stockbrokers 1
- Stock exchanges 11
- Stock options 5
- Takeover bids 13
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 88
-
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
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
109
- Administration application 21
- Adult guardianship 26
- Charitable giving 8
- Client Relations 26
- Devolution of assets 27
- Elder care 33
- Estate litigation 47
- 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 36
- Workers Compensation 29
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PRACTICE AREA
- Aboriginal Law 119
- Administrative Law 81
- ADR 119
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 34
- Builders Liens 18
-
Business Law
220
- Acquisitions and mergers 20
- Amalgamations 5
- Banking law 3
- Buying and selling a business 31
- Capital alterations 4
- Charities and non-profit organizations 15
- Client Relations 12
- Commercial litigation 20
- Competition law 5
- Continuations 3
- Contracts 32
- 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 12
- Incorporation and organization 23
- International 8
- Partnerships 9
- Practice 23
- 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 60
-
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
-
Family Law
153
- Adoption 5
- ADR 43
- Advocacy 1
- Appeals 6
- Child protection 33
- Child support 55
- Client Relations 33
- Collaborative law 11
- Common law spouses 10
- Conflict of laws 7
- Costs 8
- Custody and access 53
- Division of property 65
- Divorce 13
- Ethics 33
- Evidence 35
- General 36
- Guardianship 26
- Interim relief 22
- Marriage 8
- Marriage agreements 20
- Mediation 23
- Multiculturalism 10
- Naming children 2
- Orders 19
- Pensions 11
- Pleadings 37
- Pre-nuptial agreements 11
- Professional Responsibility 30
- Property Agreements 9
- Property Agreements 8
- References to Registrar 2
- Same-sex couples 6
- Separation agreements 19
- Spousal support 56
- Tax issues 14
- Unrepresented Litigants 20
- FOI and Privacy 63
- Health Law 22
- Human Rights 115
- Immigration 52
-
Insurance
87
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 11
- Agents 4
- Claims 26
- Contracts 29
- Damages 10
- Defences 19
- Directors and officers insurance 8
- Duties and liabilities 12
- Exclusions 17
- Fire insurance 4
- Homeowners insurance 16
- Lawyers liability insurance 6
- Liability insurance generally 30
- Life insurance 9
- Litigation 30
- Motor vehicle insurance 20
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 6
- Property and loss of income insurance 7
- Subrogation 19
- Intellectual Property 29
- Labour Law 38
- Legal Research and Writing 11
- Legal Support Staff 96
-
Litigation
448
- 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 35
- 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
- Natural Resources 20
-
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
271
- Billing 38
- Client development 28
- Client Relations 91
- Conduct and the Law Society 35
- Document management 51
- Employee hiring and retention 15
- Ethics 119
- In House Counsel 4
- Insurance 14
- Management and organization of firms 24
- Partnership issues 6
- Professional Responsibility 10
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 5
- Solicitor-client privilege 32
- Technology 32
- Trust accounting 10
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 158
-
Real Estate
161
- Agents and brokers 6
- Assessment 12
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 6
- Charges on title 12
- Client Relations 27
- Closing procedures 21
- Commercial leases 29
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 3
- Construction contracts 26
- Construction litigation 25
- Conveyancing practice 23
- Development cost charges 5
- Development--general 33
- Development rights 9
- Environmental issues 15
- Ethics 29
- Expropriation 4
- Financing 19
- Foreclosure 18
- Government approvals 3
- Indian Act conveyancing 13
- Land Title Office 23
- Legal proceedings 46
- Manufactured homes 5
- Mortgages 30
- Owner developers and strata corporations 2
- Professional Responsibility 18
- Purchase contract 27
- Residential tenancies 10
- Searches and investigations 11
- 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 6
- Vancouver Charter 3
- Zoning 4
- School Law 12
- Secured Transactions 14
-
Securities
43
- Appeals 3
- BC Securities Commission 11
- Disclosure 25
- Due diligence 5
- General 26
- 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 12
- Private placement 11
- Public offering 11
- Regulation 22
- Searches 2
- Stockbrokers 1
- Stock exchanges 11
- Stock options 5
- Takeover bids 13
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 88
-
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
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
109
- Administration application 21
- Adult guardianship 26
- Charitable giving 8
- Client Relations 26
- Devolution of assets 27
- Elder care 33
- Estate litigation 47
- 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 36
- Workers Compensation 29
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