Allan Donovan

Gordon practices civil and commercial litigation with focuses in shareholder and partnership disputes, pension and benefits litigation, and administrative law. Gordon has appeared as lead counsel before the British Columbia Court of Appeal and regularly appears in the British Columbia Supreme Court. Gordon has also appeared before the Supreme Court of Canada, the Federal Court and the Tax Court of Canada. Prior to joining Lawson Lundell, Gordon interned with the Office of the Prosecutor at a ...

Jeremy Poole is the group leader of the Local Government Practice and a member of the Insurance and Health Practices. He has represented local governments on numerous legal issues for over twenty years. He provides advice and representation to municipal police. He also provides representation and advice to the insurance industry defending a wide variety of claims relating to both property and personal injury matters. Mr. Poole assists clients in defending serious and complex claims using his ...

Joel is a Partner in Harper Grey’s Health Law, Commercial Litigation, Professional Regulation, and Insurance Law practice groups. Joel’s practice focuses on professional liability; commercial litigation, including multi-party cases and class actions; insurance litigation; and administrative law. He routinely acts as counsel on complex cases and appeals. He has represented clients at all levels of court in British Columbia and before various administrative tribunals. Joel is the fi...

William is a senior partner at Harper Grey, the chair of our professional regulation group and co-chair of our health law group. William represents clients in both civil and regulatory matters. His primary areas of practice include professional regulation and discipline, civil sexual assault litigation, civil and billing fraud, credentials proceedings, human rights and discrimination in a professional context, privacy, professional ethics, and fitness to practice. He acts both for professiona...

David practices general insurance defence litigation with an emphasis on the defence of dentists, hospitals and school boards in negligence and human rights claims. He also regularly defends businesses and municipalities in property damage and personal injury claims. David has experience appearing as counsel at all levels of court in British Columbia, and the Supreme Court of Canada. In his administrative practice, David has defended matters before the Human Rights Tribunal, the Health Profes...

Paul C. Wilson is Chair of the firm’s Energy, Environmental and Natural Resources group. His practice focuses on energy, infrastructure, transportation and natural resources projects, with an emphasis on environmental and Indigenous matters. Paul negotiates project contracts, concession agreements and deals with environmental assessments and permitting for major infrastructure, port infrastructure, energy and mining projects. Paul is also recognized for his experience related to project...

With nearly fifteen years of experience representing clients in his litigation practice, Aaron has established a reputation for himself as analytical, communicative, and knowledgeable. He is recognized as an emerging leader in his areas of practice and has been recognized by Lexpert in the area of Medical Negligence. Aaron’s insurance law practice comprises insurance defence, subrogation and coverage work and he provides legal services to a broad range of insurers and self-insured organ...

Ian advises and represents utilities, governments, and renewable energy producers on regulatory requirements, hearings and commercial transactions related to energy. Ian acts for the largest electric utility in British Columbia, and for several district energy utilities in connection with the regulation of their rates, infrastructure projects and services. He advises biofuel and renewable energy producers and waste energy distributors on regulatory requirements and transactions. He also advis...

David J. McGruder is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Intellectual Property Law. David J., who practices law in Vancouver, British Columbia, has been recognized since 2008. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which David J. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Bernie is a partner on the Securities/Corporate Finance/Mergers & Acquisitions team at Koffman Kalef LLP, based in Vancouver, British Columbia. He assists clients across a range of industries, focusing on Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law, and Securities Law. Bernie has worked with numerous companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange, the TSX Venture Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and NASDAQ, offering significant insight into technology and ...