Practice Areas
- Aboriginal Law 113
- Administrative Law 77
- ADR 116
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 32
- Builders Liens 18
-
Business Law
211
- Acquisitions and mergers 19
- Amalgamations 4
- Banking law 3
- Buying and selling a business 30
- Capital alterations 3
- Charities and non-profit organizations 15
- Client Relations 8
- Commercial litigation 19
- Competition law 5
- Continuations 2
- Contracts 29
- Corporate finance 25
- Corporate governance 32
- Corporate procedures 32
- Directors 16
- Dissolution and restoration 2
- Ethics 11
- Extra-provincial companies 3
- Fiduciary 7
- Franchising 3
- Fraud 9
- Incorporation and organization 22
- International 7
- Partnerships 8
- Practice 18
- Privacy 8
- Professional Responsibility 13
- Searches
- Shareholders 15
- 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 5
- Postjudgment remedies 10
- Prejudgment garnishment 6
- Priorities 10
- Proceeding to judgment 3
- Repairers liens
- Searches 4
- Criminal Law 59
-
Employment Law
95
- Benefits 13
- Client Relations 7
- Compensation 10
- Defamation 5
- Discrimination 55
- Duties and liabilities 31
- Employment contracts 34
- Employment standards 31
- Ethics 3
- General 29
- Mandatory Retirement 9
- Occupational health and safety 28
- Pensions 13
- Practice 11
- Privacy 40
- Professional Responsibility 4
- Sexual harassment 13
- Tax issues 4
- Wrongful dismissal 37
- Environmental Law 27
-
Family Law
146
- Adoption 4
- ADR 40
- Advocacy 1
- Appeals 5
- Child protection 30
- Child support 53
- Client Relations 29
- Collaborative law 11
- Common law spouses 10
- Conflict of laws 7
- Costs 8
- Custody and access 50
- Division of property 64
- Divorce 11
- Ethics 31
- Evidence 34
- General 34
- Guardianship 25
- Interim relief 20
- Marriage 7
- Marriage agreements 20
- Mediation 22
- Multiculturalism 8
- Naming children 2
- Orders 19
- Pensions 11
- Pleadings 35
- Pre-nuptial agreements 11
- Professional Responsibility 27
- Property Agreements 8
- Property Agreements 8
- References to Registrar 2
- Same-sex couples 6
- Separation agreements 18
- Spousal support 55
- Tax issues 14
- Unrepresented Litigants 19
- FOI and Privacy 63
- Health Law 22
- Human Rights 110
- Immigration 49
-
Insurance
83
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 9
- Agents 4
- Claims 23
- Contracts 26
- Damages 8
- Defences 19
- Directors and officers insurance 7
- Duties and liabilities 11
- Exclusions 14
- Fire insurance 3
- Homeowners insurance 15
- Lawyers liability insurance 6
- Liability insurance generally 28
- Life insurance 9
- Litigation 28
- Motor vehicle insurance 20
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 6
- Property and loss of income insurance 5
- Subrogation 19
- Intellectual Property 28
- Labour Law 38
- Legal Research and Writing 10
- Legal Support Staff 94
-
Litigation
435
- Aboriginal litigation 18
- Advocacy skills 32
- Appeals 23
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
- Causes of action 40
- Chambers applications 52
- Class actions 51
- Client Relations 27
- Commercial litigation 27
- Conflict of laws 6
- Constitutional 9
- Costs 97
- Damages 37
- Defamation 8
- Discovery 90
- Economic Loss 2
- Estate litigation 30
- Ethics 54
- Evidence 133
- Experts 102
- 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 11
- Limitation Periods 16
- Municipal 11
- Orders 16
- Pleadings 83
- Practice 97
- Pre-trial Procedures 48
- Professional Responsibility 53
- Real estate litigation 31
- Remedies 5
- Reviews 5
- Securities litigation 6
- Settlement 58
- Summary trials 27
- Tax issues for litigators 1
- Tax litigation 3
- Torts 24
- Trials 83
- Unrepresented Litigants 47
- Vicarious liability 13
- Maritime Law 2
- Municipal Law 22
- Natural Resources 19
-
Personal Injury
64
- Client Relations 11
- Damages 33
- Defences 17
- Ethics 10
- Family compensation claims 6
- Host Liability 6
- Injuries 30
- Insurance 17
- Mediation 11
- Medical malpractice 5
- Motor vehicle accidents 33
- Occupiers liability 5
- Part 7 benefits 23
- Practice 34
- Professional Responsibility 13
- Structured settlements and judgments 11
- Tax issues 8
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
-
Practice Management
244
- Billing 35
- Client development 22
- Client Relations 83
- Conduct and the Law Society 29
- Document management 49
- Employee hiring and retention 12
- Ethics 101
- In House Counsel 3
- Insurance 14
- Management and organization of firms 19
- Partnership issues 4
- Professional Responsibility 10
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 4
- Solicitor-client privilege 27
- Technology 29
- Trust accounting 8
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 139
-
Real Estate
154
- Agents and brokers 6
- Assessment 12
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 6
- Charges on title 11
- Client Relations 25
- Closing procedures 17
- Commercial leases 27
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 2
- Construction contracts 25
- Construction litigation 24
- Conveyancing practice 20
- Development cost charges 5
- Development--general 32
- Development rights 7
- Environmental issues 15
- Ethics 28
- Expropriation 4
- Financing 19
- Foreclosure 17
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 12
- Land Title Office 21
- Legal proceedings 42
- Manufactured homes 4
- Mortgages 28
- Owner developers and strata corporations 2
- Professional Responsibility 16
- Purchase contract 24
- Residential tenancies 10
- Searches and investigations 10
- Site development control 1
- Statements of adjustments 3
- Strata corporations 16
- Strata plans 10
- Strata properties--general 37
- Structure of the developer 2
- Subdivision 11
- Surveys 5
- Tax issues 47
- Title 14
- Undertakings 5
- Vancouver Charter 3
- Zoning 3
- School Law 12
- Secured Transactions 14
-
Securities
39
- Appeals 2
- BC Securities Commission 9
- Disclosure 21
- Due diligence 4
- General 24
- Hearings 3
- Investigations 4
- Judicial review 5
- Local Policy Statements 1
- National Registration Database 1
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
- Offences 10
- Orders 5
- Practice 10
- Private placement 11
- Public offering 9
- Regulation 19
- Searches 2
- Stockbrokers 1
- Stock exchanges 9
- Stock options 5
- Takeover bids 11
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 87
-
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 67
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
103
- Administration application 19
- Adult guardianship 24
- Charitable giving 8
- Client Relations 22
- Devolution of assets 26
- Elder care 28
- Estate litigation 42
- Estate planning 58
- Ethics 18
- Executors and trustees 27
- Fiduciary 3
- General 32
- Multijurisdictional estates 9
- Probate application 19
- Professional Responsibility 24
- Tax issues 37
- Trust planning 52
- Wills 31
- Workers Compensation 27
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PRACTICE AREA
- Aboriginal Law 113
- Administrative Law 77
- ADR 116
- Air Law 1
- Bankruptcy and Insolvency 32
- Builders Liens 18
-
Business Law
211
- Acquisitions and mergers 19
- Amalgamations 4
- Banking law 3
- Buying and selling a business 30
- Capital alterations 3
- Charities and non-profit organizations 15
- Client Relations 8
- Commercial litigation 19
- Competition law 5
- Continuations 2
- Contracts 29
- Corporate finance 25
- Corporate governance 32
- Corporate procedures 32
- Directors 16
- Dissolution and restoration 2
- Ethics 11
- Extra-provincial companies 3
- Fiduciary 7
- Franchising 3
- Fraud 9
- Incorporation and organization 22
- International 7
- Partnerships 8
- Practice 18
- Privacy 8
- Professional Responsibility 13
- Searches
- Shareholders 15
- 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 5
- Postjudgment remedies 10
- Prejudgment garnishment 6
- Priorities 10
- Proceeding to judgment 3
- Repairers liens
- Searches 4
- Criminal Law 59
-
Employment Law
95
- Benefits 13
- Client Relations 7
- Compensation 10
- Defamation 5
- Discrimination 55
- Duties and liabilities 31
- Employment contracts 34
- Employment standards 31
- Ethics 3
- General 29
- Mandatory Retirement 9
- Occupational health and safety 28
- Pensions 13
- Practice 11
- Privacy 40
- Professional Responsibility 4
- Sexual harassment 13
- Tax issues 4
- Wrongful dismissal 37
- Environmental Law 27
-
Family Law
146
- Adoption 4
- ADR 40
- Advocacy 1
- Appeals 5
- Child protection 30
- Child support 53
- Client Relations 29
- Collaborative law 11
- Common law spouses 10
- Conflict of laws 7
- Costs 8
- Custody and access 50
- Division of property 64
- Divorce 11
- Ethics 31
- Evidence 34
- General 34
- Guardianship 25
- Interim relief 20
- Marriage 7
- Marriage agreements 20
- Mediation 22
- Multiculturalism 8
- Naming children 2
- Orders 19
- Pensions 11
- Pleadings 35
- Pre-nuptial agreements 11
- Professional Responsibility 27
- Property Agreements 8
- Property Agreements 8
- References to Registrar 2
- Same-sex couples 6
- Separation agreements 18
- Spousal support 55
- Tax issues 14
- Unrepresented Litigants 19
- FOI and Privacy 63
- Health Law 22
- Human Rights 110
- Immigration 49
-
Insurance
83
- Accident, sickness and disability insurance 9
- Agents 4
- Claims 23
- Contracts 26
- Damages 8
- Defences 19
- Directors and officers insurance 7
- Duties and liabilities 11
- Exclusions 14
- Fire insurance 3
- Homeowners insurance 15
- Lawyers liability insurance 6
- Liability insurance generally 28
- Life insurance 9
- Litigation 28
- Motor vehicle insurance 20
- Municipal 1
- Non Disclosure 6
- Property and loss of income insurance 5
- Subrogation 19
- Intellectual Property 28
- Labour Law 38
- Legal Research and Writing 10
- Legal Support Staff 94
-
Litigation
435
- Aboriginal litigation 18
- Advocacy skills 32
- Appeals 23
- Bankruptcy and insolvency litigation 6
- Causes of action 40
- Chambers applications 52
- Class actions 51
- Client Relations 27
- Commercial litigation 27
- Conflict of laws 6
- Constitutional 9
- Costs 97
- Damages 37
- Defamation 8
- Discovery 90
- Economic Loss 2
- Estate litigation 30
- Ethics 54
- Evidence 133
- Experts 102
- 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 11
- Limitation Periods 16
- Municipal 11
- Orders 16
- Pleadings 83
- Practice 97
- Pre-trial Procedures 48
- Professional Responsibility 53
- Real estate litigation 31
- Remedies 5
- Reviews 5
- Securities litigation 6
- Settlement 58
- Summary trials 27
- Tax issues for litigators 1
- Tax litigation 3
- Torts 24
- Trials 83
- Unrepresented Litigants 47
- Vicarious liability 13
- Maritime Law 2
- Municipal Law 22
- Natural Resources 19
-
Personal Injury
64
- Client Relations 11
- Damages 33
- Defences 17
- Ethics 10
- Family compensation claims 6
- Host Liability 6
- Injuries 30
- Insurance 17
- Mediation 11
- Medical malpractice 5
- Motor vehicle accidents 33
- Occupiers liability 5
- Part 7 benefits 23
- Practice 34
- Professional Responsibility 13
- Structured settlements and judgments 11
- Tax issues 8
- Workers compensation—see Workers Compensation 1
-
Practice Management
244
- Billing 35
- Client development 22
- Client Relations 83
- Conduct and the Law Society 29
- Document management 49
- Employee hiring and retention 12
- Ethics 101
- In House Counsel 3
- Insurance 14
- Management and organization of firms 19
- Partnership issues 4
- Professional Responsibility 10
- Reviews Under Legal Profession Act 4
- Solicitor-client privilege 27
- Technology 29
- Trust accounting 8
- Professional Responsibility and Ethics 139
-
Real Estate
154
- Agents and brokers 6
- Assessment 12
- Builders liens see Builders Liens 6
- Charges on title 11
- Client Relations 25
- Closing procedures 17
- Commercial leases 27
- Condominiums -- see Strata properties-general 2
- Construction contracts 25
- Construction litigation 24
- Conveyancing practice 20
- Development cost charges 5
- Development--general 32
- Development rights 7
- Environmental issues 15
- Ethics 28
- Expropriation 4
- Financing 19
- Foreclosure 17
- Government approvals 2
- Indian Act conveyancing 12
- Land Title Office 21
- Legal proceedings 42
- Manufactured homes 4
- Mortgages 28
- Owner developers and strata corporations 2
- Professional Responsibility 16
- Purchase contract 24
- Residential tenancies 10
- Searches and investigations 10
- Site development control 1
- Statements of adjustments 3
- Strata corporations 16
- Strata plans 10
- Strata properties--general 37
- Structure of the developer 2
- Subdivision 11
- Surveys 5
- Tax issues 47
- Title 14
- Undertakings 5
- Vancouver Charter 3
- Zoning 3
- School Law 12
- Secured Transactions 14
-
Securities
39
- Appeals 2
- BC Securities Commission 9
- Disclosure 21
- Due diligence 4
- General 24
- Hearings 3
- Investigations 4
- Judicial review 5
- Local Policy Statements 1
- National Registration Database 1
- Notices and Interpretation Notes 3
- Offences 10
- Orders 5
- Practice 10
- Private placement 11
- Public offering 9
- Regulation 19
- Searches 2
- Stockbrokers 1
- Stock exchanges 9
- Stock options 5
- Takeover bids 11
- Underwriters 1
- Solicitor 87
-
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 67
-
Wills Estates and Trusts
103
- Administration application 19
- Adult guardianship 24
- Charitable giving 8
- Client Relations 22
- Devolution of assets 26
- Elder care 28
- Estate litigation 42
- Estate planning 58
- Ethics 18
- Executors and trustees 27
- Fiduciary 3
- General 32
- Multijurisdictional estates 9
- Probate application 19
- Professional Responsibility 24
- Tax issues 37
- Trust planning 52
- Wills 31
- Workers Compensation 27
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