Deborah Lovett, QC and Angela Westmacott have been practicing public and administrative law from their Victoria offices since 1997. It’s daunting to write about them because their accomplishments on behalf of their clients and the public at large would fill pages. But I’ll try. Before establishing their own firm, Deb and Angie worked as litigators for many years in the Ministry of the Attorney General’s Administrative and Constitutional Law and the Civil Litigation Sections. After launching Lovett & Westmacott they have built solid reputations as creative, results-driven legal advisors to a diverse cross section of government, institutional, professional and public law clients. In addition, they have the tribunal, trial and appellate experience to back up their clients. Further, they have been directly involved as investigators and report authors for the Attorney General of BC, the Information and Privacy Commissioner, as well as filling neutral investigation, reporting and decision making roles in work place disputes and human rights disputes. And that’s leaving aside the publications and considerable professional development work they do for the Law Society of British Columbia.
Deborah and Angie have recently been joined by Nitya Iyer, formerly of Heenan Blaikie. Nitya brings her own impressive slate of professional achievements including teaching at the University of Toronto, UBC and clerking for the Honourable Mr. Justice Le Dain of the Supreme Court of Canada. Add to that her work for the provincial government on pay equity legislation in the private sector, a three year term as a member on the BC Human Rights Tribunal, ongoing work as the Equal Pay Commissioner of the Northwest Territories and her work as a third party neutral providing investigation and mediation services in the resolution of complex discrimination cases. Oh and did I mention she has also just completed her term as Executive Director of West Coast Leaf? Nitya will be based in the firm’s Vancouver offices and her presence will add to the bench strength provided by the firm’s association with Vancouver lawyer Patrick Gilligan-Hackett. In short, this is a group of dedicated and highly skilled senior lawyers. We were honoured when they asked us to assist them in expanding their online presence.
Given the firm’s growth in numbers and service reach the decision was taken to rebrand as Lovett Westmacott, Lawyers + Mediators. We gave them a new logo and stationary package adaptable to both the Victoria and Vancouver offices.
They were very clear from the beginning about their desire for a clean, easy to navigate, site uncluttered by too many bells and whistles. After developing an eye-catching icon we then built them a site that capitalized on the high contrast in their logo met their shared need to have a place on line where clients could go to read about what they’ve done and what they can do. We think we’ve achieved that – you be the judge: www.lw-law.ca.
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The British Columbia Land Title Survey Authority has recently announced new rules that will require electronic filing of various Land Title Forms in the Land Title Office. It’s a major change, and as such, requirements to file electronically are being phased in, with the first taking effect July 1, 2011, and several more commencing in January, 2012.
These requirements will affect the many BC lawyers and notaries that have a real estate component to their practice. Skunkworks client Dye & Durham has just released a white paper on the impacts of these new requirements for the BC legal community. You can access the white paper by clicking on the banner image below.
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Earlier this month our friends at McQuarrie Hunter LLP welcomed several hundred clients, colleagues, and invited guests to join them in celebrating the opening of their new office in the Central City office tower in Surrey. Surrey mayor Dianne Watts was amongst the guests on hand (shown here with McQuarrie Hunter managing partner Tako van Popta), who enjoyed guided tours of the firm’s new space provided by McQuarrie’s lawyers and staff, and a large and lively reception in the building’s lobby.
McQuarrie Hunter LLP has deep roots in both Surrey and New Westminster, and the new premises – which consolidated the firm’s three prior offices into a single new modern building – will undoubtedly give clients a better sense of the scale and scope of McQuarrie’s capabilities as one of Metro Vancouver’s largest firms outside of Vancouver’s downtown core. The firm’s new (skunkworks-designed) brand identity was out in full-force as well, adorning banners, gift bags and signage.
Our best wishes to the firm as they embark on the next chapter in the firm’s storied history in their new location.
Pictured: Surrey Mayor Dianne Watts and McQuarrie Hunter LLP Managing Partner Tako van Popta
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This year’s transit campaign was designed to continue increasing awareness of the RDM Lawyers brand. This was achieved by visually connecting the firm’s unique office building, located at 5 Corners in Abbotsford, British Columbia, the RDM Lawyers logo, and individual lawyers including: Frank Mullally, Shelly Avram and Doug Lester, who are all long serving members of the firm’s Personal Injury practice group. This year, in addition to continuing to run their current Family Law and new Personal Injury group bus ads, we also adapted the new personal injury ads for display in bus shelters around Abbotsford (feature above).
RDM Lawyers’ website
RDM Lawyer’s Personal Injury mini-site.
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The holiday season was a busy one for many of our clients, and McQuarrie Hunter LLP has to be near the very top of that mix, with a move of three different office locations in Surrey and New Westminster into a single modern new premises in the dynamic (and Bing Thom Architects-designed) Central City complex in Surrey. Client Services Director Marni MacLeod and I visited Central City in December shortly before the firm’s scheduled move and were both left impressed by what we saw.
Bringing all of McQuarrie’s lawyers together under one roof also presented an opportune time to refresh the firm’s corporate identity, and we were excited to work with the firm on that aspect of their brand. You can check out the new look in the latest work section of our portfolio, and we are currently hard at work on a re-developed McQuarrie Hunter website set for release later this year.
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