Course Chairs
Dick H.K. Chan — Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers, Coquitlam
Bob C. Starkell — Bob C. Starkell Law Corporation, Vancouver
About the Course Chairs
Dick H.K. Chan is a partner at Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers where he has practiced since 1996. He was called to the bar in 1992. Dick has been a director of the Hamilton Community Association since 1994. He has been a supervising lawyer with the UBC Law Students Legal Advice Program since 1998 and a volunteer lawyer with the Access Justice Pro Bono Clinic since 2001. Dick has volunteered with the Continuing Legal Education Society of BC since 2002 as a course presenter on real estate matters and as a contributing editor for CLEBC’s Conveyancing Deskbook.
Bob C. Starkell is a sole practitioner practicing as Bob C. Starkell Law Corporation. He was born in Brandon, Manitoba, moved to British Columbia in 1985, and was called to the BC bar in 1986. Bob practiced briefly in Invermere, BC, during his hang gliding phase. He moved to Vancouver in 1987 when he entered his sailing phase and practiced family law out of an office in New Westminster. Bob opened his law office in Vancouver in 1990 and has remained since.
Over his years of practice Bob has changed from all family, to half corporate and half real estate, to almost all real estate. His practice is 100% solicitor work. Over half of his real estate practice is residential leasehold work, and over half of the leasehold work is residential leasehold on First Nations Reserve land. Bob started his motorcycle phase in 2000 and is still in it.
Faculty
Dick H.K. Chan — Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers, Coquitlam
Norman Chow — Vancouver
Gail Davies — Landmark Law Corporation, Vancouver
Raluca Dogaru — Policy and Legislative Analyst, Property Taxation Branch – Ministry of Finance, Victoria
Robert F. Halifax — Cobbett & Cotton Law Corporation, Burnaby
Colleen Read — Senior Conveyancer, Spagnuolo & Company Real Estate Lawyers, Coquitlam
Lee M. Sawatzky — Rosberg Sawatzky LLP, Langley
Marlon T. Song — Lawyers Insurance Fund, Law Society of BC, Vancouver
Bob C. Starkell — Bob C. Starkell Law Corporation, Vancouver
Portia Tang — Tang & Company, Barrister & Solicitor, Victoria
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