For lawyers
Trial preparation and trial support
A trial date is set and the file needs more hands than your office has. I work alongside counsel of record on BC Supreme Court civil trials, from the trial management conference to closing submissions. You keep carriage of the file and the client relationship. The work product comes in your firm’s format.
I can start on short notice, including in the final weeks before trial.
What I can take on
- Trial readiness review: pleadings, admissions, gaps in proof, and a task list to trial
- Trial briefs and trial management conference preparation
- Notices to admit and agreed statements of facts
- Document briefs, joint books and the trial record
- Witness lists, will-say summaries, subpoenas and scheduling
- Direct and cross-examination outlines, including expert witnesses
- Objections to expert reports and pre-trial applications
- Opening statements, closing submissions and case authorities
- Second chair at trial: exhibits, witnesses, notes and overnight research
- Agency work in BC for out-of-province counsel
How an engagement works
Plaintiff and defence counsel are both welcome. Every engagement starts with a conflicts check, and I decline any matter where a conflict exists. Send the style of cause and the names of the parties before any file material.
I am retained by counsel, on terms agreed in writing before work begins.
I work remotely anywhere in British Columbia, in person on Vancouver Island, and elsewhere by arrangement.