As Cliff Tells It

In the first fifteen years of practice, we handled a wide variety of practice areas and had a number of interesting and high profile cases. For example, we defended Guilford Volkswagen in a lengthy and complex price fixing case brought against all lower mainland Volkswagen dealers under the Competition Act. We also successfully sued the PNE for misrepresenting the value of their show home prize.

One of the personal highlights of my career was during one of our family law cases. I got to physically hand a 10-day-old baby to her adoptive parents at Children’s Hospital. (We dealt with many adoption cases, custody disputes, and other family law cases.)

At one point we had arguably the busiest real estate conveyance practice, if not in the lower mainland, certainly in the Fraser Valley. For several years we also had a contract to represent Child and Family Services weekly in protection of children cases in Surrey, Coquitlam, and Delta.

During that time, Bill had the reputation as one of the busiest commercial/ corporate lawyers in Surrey/Delta /Langley. And Geoff had a foreclosure practice that rivalled that of Davis and Co -- the leader in the field.

All of this work was performed exclusively by Bill, Geoff, and myself until we were joined by Larry Hagan and Peter Hamilton in 1992.” - Clifford R. Shannon