At Marshall and Lamperson’s, we have a wide range of expertise. We offer legal advice for the following areas of practice: Wills and Estate planning, Personal Injury, Family Matters and Litigation, Corporate and Commercial, Estate Litigations, Estate Administration and Planning, Mediation and Arbitration, Real Estate, Landlord and Tenant, and General Litigation.
Wills and Estate Planning
Let us help you put a plan together that will ensure your representatives have all the information and tools they need to care for you.
We will provide legal advice to ensure that your estate planning goals in the following areas are being met:
- Wills
- Representation Agreements
- Powers of Attorney
- Commiteeship/Adult Guardianship
- Charitable giving
Personal Injury
If you have been injured in an accident and are pursuing compensation through a claim with ICBC or another provider, we can help. At every stage of the process our Personal Injury lawyers will give you sound Legal Advice by explaining your legal options, and when a fair settlement cannot be negotiated, our Personal Injury lawyers have the trial experience to take your case to court.
We have successfully handled personal injury claims including:
- Broken bones
- Whiplash and other soft tissue injuries
- Psychological injuries
- Neurological injuries
- Head injuries
Contingency fee arrangements are available in most personal injury cases. This means you don’t pay anything up front, but only once a settlement is reached.
Family Matters and Litigation
Starting a life with someone is an exciting journey. However, going through a separation and divorce can be a difficult time. Allow our Family Matters and Separation/Divorce lawyers guide you through these times by providing advice in the following areas:
- Co-habitation agreements
- Marriage agreements
- Separation and Divorce Agreements
- Court appearances
- Mediation
Corporate and Commercial
Whether you own your own company, are thinking of purchasing an existing company, or are starting up a business, let us take care of your company’s day to day challenges and future plans.
Our corporate and commercial legal services include:
- Incorporations and Sole proprietorships
- Corporate structuring and reorganization
- Partnership, Joint Venture, and Shareholder agreements
- Share and Asset purchase and sale
- Corporate governance
- Annual report filings
- Registered records office
- Banking, business financing and leasing
- Reviewing contracts and resolving contract disputes
- Amalgamations and mergers
- Commercial litigation
Estate Litigations
These types of disputes can be complicated, time consuming and emotionally challenging. Allow us to help you. We regularly represent both executors and individuals in estate disputes, defending and prosecuting claims involving trusts and joint property, validity of Wills, allegations of undue influence, capacity issues, and the variation of Wills.
Estate Administraion and Planning
Acting as an executor or an administrator does not have to be a daunting task. Let us provide legal advice and make the probate process through all stages of estate administration straightforward.
Mediation and Arbitration
Mediation can be more cost effective and preferred over the adversarial, confrontational approach used by our legal system. The alternative dispute resolution option can save both parties costs by having one mediator-lawyer as opposed to each paying for their own counsel.
Through mediation and arbitration with Marshall & Lamperson Law Corporation you have the option to control the settlement outcome.
Real Estate
Whether buying, selling, or re-financing, you need to be prepared and ensure that all the legal aspects of the transaction are handled properly. Our Real Estate lawyers will take care of that for you.
We advise clients on various legal matters that include collapsing and collapsed purchases and sales of property; property damage; residential tenancies; disputes with developers, builder’s liens, and construction issues.
We provide legal services in real estate that include:
- Buying and selling residential or commercial property
- Refinancing residential or commercial property
- Commercial leasing: negotiating leases, assignment of leases, and termination of leases Institutional and Private borrowing and lending
- Second Mortgages
- Subdivisions
- Real estate litigation
Landlord and Tenant
We deal with various matters for both the Landlord and the Tenant in accordance with the Residential Tenancy Regulations and the Manufactured Home Regulations. Allow us to counsel you with the following areas:
- Dispute resolution
- Evictions
- Residential Tenancy Branch hearings
- Rental and Lease Agreements
- Order of Possession
- Rent Increases
- Demand Letters
General Litigation
Whether you are an individual, professional, or a company, allow us to represent you at all levels of court and in alternative dispute resolution. We represent clients in disputes across a range of different litigation areas including:
- Wills, estates and trusts
- Committeeship and capacity issues
- Real Estate
- Business disputes
- Personal Injury and ICBC claims
- Construction
- Insurance litigation
- Professional regulation
- Employment