Practice
Legal help with buying, selling, or refinancing a property, including private mortgages. We review the transaction documents, explain your obligations, and handle the legal steps involved in completing the transaction.
Advice about owning or managing property within a strata, including bylaws, governance, common property, and disputes involving owners or the strata corporation. Assistance can include reviewing documents, seeking a resolution, and tribunal proceedings.
Legal help with building and renovation projects, from reviewing a contract to resolving problems with payment or completed work. Common issues include project delays, deficiencies, and builders’ liens.
Help for landlords and tenants with rental agreements, repairs, deposits, unpaid rent, and ending a tenancy. We can explain the options for addressing a dispute and assist with Residential Tenancy Branch proceedings.
Advice for starting, running, buying, or selling a business. This can include incorporation, commercial contracts, leases, and agreements between business owners, with attention to how each arrangement will work in practice.
Advice when a relationship changes or ends, including separation, divorce, parenting arrangements, support, and dividing property. Assistance can include reviewing or preparing agreements, negotiating a resolution, and representation in proceedings.
Planning for how your affairs and property will be managed during incapacity and after death, including wills and powers of attorney. We also assist executors with probate applications and the work involved in administering an estate.
Advice about the working relationship between employers and employees. Common matters include employment agreements, workplace disputes, dismissal, and reviewing or negotiating a severance offer.
Help understanding and preparing immigration or citizenship matters, including applications and family sponsorships. We can also review a refusal and discuss whether an appeal or another form of review may be available.
Help resolving disputes over contracts, unpaid debts, property, or alleged negligence. We assess the issue, explain the available options, and assist with negotiation, settlement, or court proceedings where appropriate.
Advice about decisions made by public bodies, tribunal proceedings, and discrimination complaints. We help identify the issue, prepare the relevant material, and assess options such as a tribunal process or judicial review.
Advice and representation when facing a criminal allegation or charge. Assistance can include understanding the allegation and evidence, bail proceedings, preparing a defence, trial, and sentencing.
Legal and notarial services across the Lower Mainland, British Columbia.
