We are dedicated to helping clients by providing careful, strategic, and practical legal advice. We believe in having strong, long-lasting relationships with our clients. Our clients trust us to guide them through difficult litigation, address complex legal and policy issues, and carry out their long-term legal planning.
Our offices are located on unceded, traditional Coast Salish Territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-waututh peoples.
We focus on several key areas of law.
We have broad experience working with regulatory authorities in the legal, education, health, real estate, and environmental professions. We have helped boards and committees with registration, quality assurance, investigation, and discipline issues, and represented regulatory authorities in actions, judicial reviews, administrative reviews, and appeals.
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We have broad experience working with regulatory authorities in the legal, education, health, real estate, and environmental professions. We have helped boards and committees with registration, quality assurance, investigation, and discipline issues, and represented regulatory authorities in actions, judicial reviews, administrative reviews, and appeals.
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We represent parties before administrative tribunals, including public commissions and large-scale administrative review processes, and before courts in judicial review and tribunal appeal proceedings. We also act as independent legal counsel for tribunal adjudicators.
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We represent parties and intervenors in civil matters before the Supreme Court of British Columbia, the Court of Appeal, and federal courts including the Supreme Court of Canada.
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Read MoreOur firm takes part in conferences, continuing legal education, and scholarship relating to our focus areas, including Aboriginal (and Indigenous) law, constitutional law, environmental law, administrative law, and professional regulation.
