Attacking the Will 4
Co-Chairs: R. Trevor Todd & Mark Weintraub QC
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Date & Location:
Friday 6 May 2016
Pinnacle Hotel Vancouver Harbourfront, Vancouver BC
Credits:
LSBC Continuing Professional Development: This seminar qualifies for 6 hours of structured legal education for 2016, including one embedded hour of professional responsibility and ethics, client care and relations.
Program:
9:00 am Opening Remarks
R. Trevor Todd, Disinherited.com, Vancouver
Mark S. Weintraub QC, Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver
9:05 – 9:35 Costs Update: An Increasingly Expensive Concern
John Bilawich, Holmes & King, Vancouver
9:35 – 10:05 Experts: How to Get, Prepare and Cross-Examine Them
Joe Murphy QC, Murphy Battista LLP, Vancouver
10:05 – 10:35 Ethically Dealing with Lay Litigants: Loose Cannons in the Courtroom
Art Vertlieb QC, MacKenzie Fujisawa LLP, Vancouver
10:35 – 10:55 Coffee Break – Networking and Exhibitor Time
10:55 – 11:25 DNA - Who’s Your Daddy?
David A. Hunter, Hamilton Duncan Armstrong + Stewart Law Corporation, Surrey
11:25 – 11:55 Use Presumptions to Your Advantage or Lose
Candace Cho, Onyx Law Group, Vancouver
11:55 – 12:25 Fact Pattern Analysis
R. Trevor Todd, Disinherited.com, Vancouver
Amy A. Mortimore, Clark Wilson LLP, Vancouver
Janis Ko, Onyx Law Group, Vancouver
Jackson B. Todd, Disinherited.com, Vancouver
12:25 – 1:25 Lunch (included in registration) & Fact Pattern Discussion Roundtables
1:25 – 1:55 Strike Gold at Discovery
Lyle G. Harris QC, Harris & Brun, Vancouver
1:55 – 2:25 Managing Difficult Clients
Palbinder K. Shergill QC, Shergill & Company, Surrey
2:25 – 2:55 Maximize Your Case at Mediation
Kathryn S. Sainty QC, Sainty Law, Burnaby
2:55 – 3:15 Coffee Break – Networking and Exhibitor Time
3:15 – 3:45 Severed Joint Tenancies: More Common than You Think
Rebecca Morse, Farris Vaughan Wills & Murphy LLP, Vancouver
3:45 – 4:15 Witness Preparation for Discovery and Trial
James D. Vilvang QC, Richards Buell Sutton LLP, Vancouver
4:15 – 4:45 WESA Update and Unused Tools
Geoffrey W. White, Geoffrey W. White Law Corporation, Kelowna
4:45 – 5:00 Closing Remarks
5:00 – 6:00 President’s Reception
Pricing:
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TLABC Regular Member
- 5 years call or less $364.00
- 6 - 9 years call 414.00
- 10 years call or more 464.00
- TLABC Sustaining Member or Monthly PAC Donor ($50.00 off)
- TLABC Benefactor (1/2 price)
- Articled Student or Paralegal 264.00
Non-Member
- 5 years call or less 524.00
- 6 - 9 years call 574.00
- 10 years call or more 624.00
- Articled Student or Paralegal 414.00
- Law Student (TLABC Member or Non-Member) 124.00
Hotel Info:
The Pinnacle Hotel will offer a discounted group rate of $199 per night (city view) and $229/night (harbour view) plus taxes for May 5 & 6, based on availability. Please call the Pinnacle and ask for the reservations department at 1-844-337-3118 to book.
Alternatively, TLABC has arranged corporate rates with several downtown Vancouver hotels. Visit www.tlabc.org for more information, or call us at 604 682-5343.