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The following legal services in civil litigation matters, focusing primarily in the area of personal injury, will be offered through Virgin Hickman by Andrea Abbinante, without direct supervision, including:

• Representing personal injury clients in their claim for accident benefits with the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia for accidents occuning post-May 1, 2021, including all communications and negotiations with ICBC and representation at the Civil Resolution Tribunal.
• Representing personal injury clients in their claim for accident benefits and damages with ICBC for accidents occurring between April 1, 2019, and May 1, 2021, where the cap on damages applies, including representation at the Civil Resolution Tribunal.
• Representing personal injury clients in their claim for accident benefits and damages with insurance companies other than ICBC, including:
• Drafting court documents and legal correspondence.
• Negotiating on behalf of clients.
• Conducting legal research.
• Attending tribunal and court hearings (trial management conferences, chambers applications).
• Providing legal coaching services to personal injury and general civil litigation clients, including:
• Assisting clients with understanding the court system.
• Reviewing legal work done by clients and providing feedback.
• Assisting clients in making decisions on procedure and strategy.
• Providing legal advice (excluding highly complex legal matters which will be referred to a lawyer at Virgin Hickman).
• Guiding clients through the legal process.
• Conducting legal research, providing links to cases to clients, and helping clients understand the rules applicable to their case.
• Assisting clients to prepare and attend their own court matters and mediations.
• Providing clients with resources to assist them in handling their matter.

Deborah Barros Abrantes will offer the following services in the areas of intellectual property and entertainment law:

• Negotiating contracts and distribution rights;
• Drafting contracts and other legal documents;
• Advising clients and answering questions about entertainment law;
• Researching relevant case law;
• Assisting record labels setting themselves up as a business entity;
• Ensuring compliance with copyright laws; and
• Registration of copyright.

Employment law and disability insurance law services will be offered through Samfiru Tumarkin LLP by Courtney Burnett, Designated Paralegal, without direct supervision, including:

• providing legal advice; conducting negotiations; drafting legal documents, and appearing before the court and administrative tribunals, in matters within the jurisdiction of the following: the Provincial Court; the Civil Resolution Tribunal; the Human Rights Tribunal; the Employment Standards Branch; and the Worker’s Compensation Appeal Tribunal.

Erin Bury will operate an online digital platform, willful.co. to help BC residents create wills and powers of attorney. Currently, users download and sign the completed agreement in front of witnesses. Bury intends to offer users a 100% end-to-end digital process, whereby users will be able to complete, digitally sign and virtually witness their documents without the need for paper copies. The platform will provide legal information about wills, estate planning and related topics. Should users require legal advice, they will be told to contact a lawyer.

Bryan Louis Crockett will offer legal advice, document preparation, drafting, research, negotiation, and representation within the jurisdiction of the following:

• Civil Resolution Tribunal;
• Small Claims Court;
• Residential Tenancy Branch;
• Human Rights Tribunal;
• Employment Standards Tribunal.

Ali Dabaja wil offer legal advice, document drafting, document review, assistance with completing fo1ms, settlement negotiation, and representing clients, in the following areas:

• Human rights law;
• Regulatory licensing tribunal matters;
• Summary convictions in criminal law matters;
• Provincial offences and quasi-criminal matters;
• Employment law; and
• Landlord and tenant disputes.

Jane DePaoli will offer the following legal and coaching services in the area of family law:

• Organizational assistance by helping clients to gather appropriate documentation relating to separation agreements, assisting clients with preparing financial statements, and reviewing documentation or correspondence;
• Procedural assistance by helping the client understand and navigate the family law system;
• Presentation assistance by explaining what clients can expect to happen when the client appears in a mediation session and/or court;
• Drafting assistance with preparing mediation briefs, and proof reading documents prepared by the client;
• Preparing and setting expectations for clients by explaining a range of possible outcomes;
• Research assistance by using various online resources; and
• Referral assistance by referring clients to lawyers where appropriate.

Through Tellalawyer (www.tellalawyer.com). Kyle Friesen will provide an online lawyer referral service that offers a direct link for the public to qualified legal professionals, for initial consultations, through a secure online booking and payment platform.

Nya Guy proposes to offer the following services:

• Corporate legal services including but not limited to:
  • Annual report filing;
  • Name registration;
  • Name change;
  • Change of Directors/Officers; and
  • Incorporation, extra-provincial registration, continuation and dissolution;
• Legal Process Outsourcing to law firms and corporations.

Nya Guy will not provide legal advice to clients and should legal advice be required, he will refer clients to a lawyer.

Michelle Haigh proposes to offer the following services on Small Claims matters:

• Preparation of court forms;
• Preparation of pleadings;
• Filing and serving of court documents;
• Legal advice;
• Research on legal matters; and
• Negotiate and facilitate settlements;

Christopher Hall proposes to offer the following services:

• Small claims court
• Legal advice; and
• Document drafting;
• Civil Resolution Tribunal
• Legal advice;
• Document drafting: and
• Advocacy during hearings or during the settlement process;
• Residential Tenancy Branch
• Legal advice;
• Document drafting: and
• Advocacy during hearings or during the settlement process; and
• Employment Standards Tribunal
• Legal advice;
• Document drafting: and
• Advocacy during hearings or during the settlement process.

Kathryn Hanen will offer the following legal services:

• Legal coaching in matters pertaining to violations and tickets under the Motor Vehicle Act and criminal law matters, within the Provincial Court jurisdiction, which includes:
  • assistance to clients in understanding their legal situations generally;
  • completing forms;
  • drafting assistance;
  • preparing for court;
  • navigating court processes.
• Negotiation and representation in matters pertaining to traffic violations and tickets under the Motor Vehicle Act.

Tim Hewson will offer the following services:

• The operation of an online platform called Legal Wills.ca where users create, store and share estate planning documents such as wills, living wills, powers of attorney, and documents setting out funeral wishes. Hewson intends to offer users a 100% end-to-end digital process, whereby users will be able to complete, digitally sign, and virtually witness their documents without the need for paper copies. All documents created are stored within LegalWills.ca’s digital vault.
• LegalWills.ca provides users with legal information about wills, estate planning, and related topics.
• If a user requires legal advice, the platform recommends that users contact a lawyer.
• Users can request that a lawyer review their final document for an additional fee. LegalWills.ca has a number of lawyers hired on a contract basis to review user documents and provide a written report regarding the consistency and completeness of the information contained therein. There is no direct interaction between the user and lawyer and no legal advice is offered.

Jolene Johnson proposes to offer the following services: 

• Small claims court
• Legal advice; and
• Document drafting;
• Civil Resolution Tribunal
• Legal advice;
• Document drafting: and
• Advocacy during hearings or during the settlement process;
• Residential Tenancy Branch
• Legal advice;
• Document drafting: and
• Advocacy during hearings or during the settlement process.

Dominika Justynski proposes to offer the following services:

• Residential Tenancy Branch
• Legal advice;
• Document drafting: and
• Advocacy during hearings or during the settlement process.

Tracy Laninga proposes to offer a limited scope of services to clients who would maintain control of their own legal matter, in the following areas of law:

• Simple small claims disputes;
• Desk order divorces (restricted to uncontested desk orders with no other issues);
• Simple landlord/tenant disputes under the Residential Tenancy Act;
• Insurance Corporation of British Columbia disputes under the jurisdiction of the Civil Resolution Tribunal;
• Assisting with access to specific government programs;
• Assisting with applying for legal aid; and
• Drafting annual corporate maintenance documents for start-up companies and grant applications.

Jeremy Maddock proposes to offer the following research and writing services as a home-based contract employee, under the supervision of practicing lawyers, including:

• Conducting legal research;
• Reviewing and summarizing disclosure;c) Drafting pleadings;
• Drafting legal arguments; and
• Submitting any documents prepared by you for the review and approval of the supervising lawyer.

Maddock also proposes to offer the following services to motor vehicle violation ticket disputants:

• Reviewing violation tickets;
• Providing information about the dispute process;
• Obtaining disclosure from ticketing officers;
• Negotiating possible resolution with ticketing officers; and
• Drafting legal arguments.

John Charles Wesley McDonald proposes to offer the following services:

• Acting as the client’s advocate throughout the litigation process by providing legal advice, conducting legal research, drafting and filing documents, entering into settlement negotiations and making appearances in each of:
• the Civil Resolution Tribunal;
• the Residential Tenancy Branch; and
• the Employment Standards Tribunal.
• Small Claims Matters:
• Meeting with clients;
• Conducting legal research;
• Preparing and filing documents such as pleadings, statements and affidavits;
• Assisting with document disclosure;
• Engaging in settlement negotiation; and
• Assisting the client with trial preparation.

Through SimpleArb, Scott Nicol will provide an online platform that allows parties to enter into settlement negotiation and confidentially disclose their offers to settle. A claimant enters the amount they are willing to receive and the respondent enters the amount they are willing to pay. The amount entered by one party is not disclosed to the other party. If the offers match or overlap, the SimpleArb system will declare a match. The system will then disclose the average of the offers to the parties and an agreement can be formed. If the offers do not match or overlap, no information on the offers is shared.

Mayette Ostonal proposes to offer the following services:

• Legal Coaching, independent of Ostonal's employment at a law firm, which includes:
• coaching clients in civil litigation procedure, with a focus on the Civil Resolution Tribunal and personal injury litigation
• helping clients understand the process and what is required of them at each step;
• providing them with information on how to find rules and other relevant legislation, the proper forms to use, serving parties, deadlines and other similar administrative matters;
• assisting with determining evidence to use in supporting or defending their claim; and
• providing assistance in how to find case law for arguments;
• coaching clients when they prepare pleadings, statements, affidavits and submissions by providing explanations for the purpose of each document, general outlines of what should be included and then assisting them in either fleshing out their drafts or paring down the drafts to focus on the issues at hand;
• providing general information and coaching regarding Small Claims and Supreme Court, including providing explanations on the court process, information on how and where to find rules and other relevant legislation, how to fill out forms, calculating deadlines, what evidence they need to prove or defend their claim, what can be included in their list of documents, the purpose of examinations for discoveries and general procedure, general information on trial preparation, and providing clients with online sources for more detailed information; and
• helping clients hone or refocus their claims (but not specifically providing advice on what their legal issues are);
• Editing documents that Ostonal's clients have prepared, such as letters, submissions and chronologies; and
• Assisting clients with case law and quantum research to determine the appropriate damages for their claims.

• Legal advice, document preparation, document review, assistance with completing forms, settlement negotiation, and representation within the jurisdiction of the following:
  • Small Claims Court;
  • Civil Resolution Tribunal;
  • Residential Tenancy Branch;
  • Employment Standards Tribunal.

• Legal guidance
  • Through phone consultations and email exchanges, Heather Campbell Pope will help unrepresented individuals with dementia and their families understand and navigate the criminal justice system and the barriers and issues faced by an accused/offender with dementia. If the accused/offender has representation, any further legal services for the individual is to be coordinated in consultation with the lawyer.
• Advocacy support
  • Pope will provide advocacy support to people with dementia who enter the criminal justice system due to responsive behaviours by carrying out actions such as writing letters to the Crown, correctional authorities, care homes/health authorities regarding resident absences and admission, and writing letters to custodians of health information regarding access to records.
• Legal research
  • Pope will cany out legal research and write memos/letters on dementia and criminal offending specific to the individual’s case, and prepare documents for use in, or related to, a proceeding. For example: preparing a human rights complaint if the individual has been "evicted" from or denied re-entry to their care home; preparing a submission regarding a deportation order; drafting written submissions for a conviction or sentence appeal; applying for termination or exemption from the sex offender registry; or applying for compassionate release.

Rachel S. Rabinovitch, human resources consultant, will offer human resources consulting services through Spraggs & Co. Law Corporation as follows:

• interpretation of Employment Standards, Human Rights, contractual details/language, termination, and severance provisions; and
• the services will be provided under the supervision of a practising lawyer at Spraggs & Co. Law Corporation.

The following legal services in the area of family law will be offered through Virgin Hickman by Michèle Ross, Designated Paralegal, without direct supervision, including:

• Processing desk order divorces.
• Providing legal advice ( excluding highly complex legal matters which will be referred to a lawyer at Virgin Hickman).
• Drafting court documents.
• Negotiating on behalf of clients.
• Providing information on the amount of child support and spousal support.
• Conducting legal research.
• Attending court (judicial case conferences, trial management conferences, chambers applications).
• Coaching self-represented litigants in family matters including:
• Assisting clients with understanding the court system.
• Reviewing legal work done by clients and providing feedback.
• Assisting clients in making decisions on procedure and strategy.
• Providing legal advice based on the parameters outlined in paragraph 3 below (see PDF).
• Guiding clients through the legal process.
• Conducting legal research, providing links to cases to clients and helping clients understand the rules applicable to their case.
• Assisting clients to prepare and attend their own court matters and mediations.
• Providing clients with resources to assist them in handling their matter.

Larry Smyth proposes to offer the following services:

• Motor Vehicle Act Matters
• Reviewing violation tickets;
• Providing information about the dispute process;
• Obtaining disclosure from ticketing officers;
• Negotiating possible resolution with ticketing officers; and
• Drafting legal arguments.
• Residential Tenancy Act Matters – Acting as the client’s advocate throughout the Residential Tenancy process, including:
• Meeting with clients;
• Communicating with opposing parties to settle the matter;
• Conducting legal research;
• Preparing, filing and serving documents;
• Gathering, filing and serving evidence; and
• Attending at Residential Tenancy Branch hearings to present
• evidence, question witnesses, respond to evidence presented by the opposing party and make submissions.
• Small Claims Matters
• Meeting with clients;
• Conducting legal research;
• Preparing and filing documents such as pleadings, statements and affidavits;
• Assisting with document disclosure;
• Engaging in settlement negotiation;
• Assisting the client with trial preparation; and
• Acting as the client’s advocate throughout the Civil Resolution Tribunal process.

• Document creation 
  • Hayley Woodin will run an online platform that creates cohabitation, prenuptial and post-nuptial agreements. The platform will include two main components: a guided expert system and a document assembly system.
• Legal information and Education
  • The platform will provide users with legal information about their rights related to marriage, cohabitation and relationship breakdown in BC. Accessible legal information, resources and educational materials will be readily available on the platform and presented throughout the agreement creation process.
• Managing User Risk
  • Users will also be urged to seek independent legal advice for the agreements that are created and in the event their needs exceed what the platform can meet.

Kevin Woolliams will offer the following services in the area of human rights and labour relations law and within the jurisdiction of the Labour Relations Board; the Human Rights Tribunal; the Human Rights Tribunal of Canada; the Employment Standards Branch; the Worker's Compensation Appeal Tribunal; and the federal Labour Program:

• Giving legal advice;
• Engaging in negotiation toward settlement, including participation in mediation, settlement conferences, and informal meetings;
• Drafting and reviewing legal documentation;
• Conducting and reporting on investigations relating to employment matters;
• Reviewing, sharing and commenting on employment and labour-related jurisprudence, legislation and regulation;
• Conducting business with non-adjudicative staff at administrative tribunals;
• Participating in and appearing before review panels and administrative tribunals.