This book is essential for: All solicitors in their first five years of practice and also for general practitioners who do any business law work.
You asked us for a broad-ranging resource to help you provide effective advice and strategies for your business law clients. Leading business law practitioners have responded, developing a new made-in-BC resource on giving advice to businesses, including companies, societies, various types of partnerships, and other organizations. Now you can take advantage of the authors' collective wisdom in CLEBC's Advising British Columbia Businesses. This accessible, multi-disciplinary work offers the type of information that good mentors pass on to their juniors (when they have time), with an emphasis on "how to" and practical tips.
The two-volume publication covers all stages of advising a business, from the first meeting with the client (where the client has a new business) until the point just before the company goes public (but not beyond). You will be better able to handle a diverse range of client needs and situations, recognize possible pitfalls and problems, and determine when more specialized advice needs to be obtained. Key forms and precedents are included, as well as an accompanying CD, and the book includes all the regular CLEBC finding aids, including a statute table and a subject index.
Highlights of the 2008 update
- unlimited liability companies in British Columbia, tax treatment
- new restrictions on telemarketing
- status of employees in asset purchase, recommended provisions
- case law on additional damages for bad-faith manner of employee dismissal
- case law on covenants restricting competition
- evolving federal and provincial environmental requirements to address climate change, environmental due diligence practices
- impending health care costs recovery legislation and impending amendments to B.C. Insurance Act, effects on B.C. businesses
- stock dividend freezes and partnership freezes as estate planning methods
CLEBC Legal Editor
L.Joy Tataryn