For decades, Doyle’s Guide has been one of the legal industry’s most respected independent ranking organizations, recognizing leading lawyers and law firms across Canada, Australia, Asia, and the United Kingdom. Its rankings are based on extensive peer-review research, industry feedback, client recognition, and the professional reputation of lawyers within their areas of practice. MacLean Law […]
MacLean Law is an Excellence Awardee for Boutique Law Firm of the Year
MacLean Law is proud to announce that it has been recognized as an Excellence Awardee for Boutique Law Firm of the Year by the prestigious Canadian Law Awards. This distinction reflects the award winning lawyers and their unwavering commitment to delivering exceptional legal services, advancing family law practice, and achieving results for family law clients […]
Sophie Bartholomew Speaks to CTV News on Bigamy in BC
April 10, 2026, from CTV News: A fairy tale that got lost’: Canadian man’s multiple wives say marriage licences should never have been issued A CTV News W5 investigation uncovered significant gaps in how marriage licences are issued across Canada, revealing that most jurisdictions do not verify whether applicants are already legally married. This lack […]
Canadian Lawyer’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers – Fraser MacLean
Fraser MacLean’s selection as one of Canadian Lawyer’s Top 25 Most Influential Lawyers recognizes a career defined by high-stakes advocacy, precedent-setting work, and a deep commitment to client service. A family law Associate at MacLean Law, Fraser MacLean has appeared at every level of court in British Columbia, including the Court of Appeal, and has built a litigation record […]
Dismissal Of UHNW Family Appeals For Non Compliance
Dismissal Of UHNW Family Appeals For Non Compliance are rare but can occur. The concept is why would you let an Appellant who refused to obey past child and spousal support orders ask the Court to help them set aside an order they refused to obey without good reason? MacLean Law is a tier 1 […]
UHNW FAMILY AND DIVORCE BUSINESS VALUATIONS
MacLean Law’s UHNW FAMILY AND DIVORCE BUSINESS VALUATIONS lawyers handle cases involving multimillion and even billion-dollar family businesses and ventures. We have set the highest wins for spousal support, child support, lump sum support, costs, fines and restraining orders and set records for multimillion dollar property division settlements even in very short disputed relationships. Top […]
FLA Section 211 Expert Child Parenting Reports
FLA Section 211 Expert Child Parenting Reports can be ordered in contested child parenting responsibility and child parenting time an guardianship cases. In today’s blog Lexpert ranked family associate Gurdeep Khosa gives a you a straightforward explanation on when section 211 parenting and guardianship reports may be ordered. Section 211 Reports- The Five W’s: Everything […]
Parenting Time Right Of First Refusal
MacLean Law’s parenting time right of first refusal lawyers focus on the principle of maximum contact. MacLean Law is ranked as a tier 1 UHNW family firm because we repeatedly win the toughest ultra high net worth cases including our focus on Mandarin Chinese high net worth family law disputes. First Right of Refusal: This […]
Vancouver Interim Sales of Property On Separation
Interim Sales of Property On Separation in British Columbia are critical and can occur in both a rising or falling market. Lorne MacLean, KC, founder of our team of high net worth family property division lawyers, explains the two part rule for selling real estate before a family law trial together with the factors the […]
Experts Say AI Research Is Getting Worse Not Better
AI Hallucinations continue and shockingly are getting worse not better with more advanced versions of LLM AI platforms. It seems so counterintuitive that I didn’t want to believe it. I decided to research the latest inaccuracy of legal, medical, and societal AI platforms after a top AI LLM program kindly, yet erroneously, identified me as […]
