Davis LLP is pleased to announce that SIMON WELLS has re-located to Penticton. Mr. Wells is a partner with the firm and provides specialized legal services to a broad base of provincial and national clients with a primary focus on land based issues, including environmental, municipal, aboriginal, forestry, and real property matters, as well as related commercial litigation and dispute resolution.

EDWIN GRANT MARK has moved from McQuarrie Hunter in New Westminster and Surrey, and is now practising as a sole practitioner, doing contract work for Stevens & Company in Qualicum Beach.

GERRY SAIR left Kahn Zack Ehrlich Lithwick on December 31, 2007 and joined the Economic Crime Group of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada in Vancouver.

CHARLES D. JAGO has joined the firm of Greiner, Bethell & Company in Burnaby as Associate Counsel, where he will practise in the areas of personal injury and commercial litigation, and dispute resolution.

KATHRYN DEO, formerly of Woodward & Company, has joined Jeanie Lanine at Cedar Law. Cedar Law provides legal services to First Nations and Aboriginal organizations.

JENNIFER MACGREGOR-GREER, formerly of Stikeman Elliott LLP in Vancouver, has joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer in London, UK, where she is a corporate associate in the Private Equity and Private M&A team.

KIMBERLEY D.B. NORRIS, formerly a solicitor for the Public Guardian & Trustee

of British Columbia, recently joined the Criminal Justice Branch in Victoria as Crown Counsel.

DEVON C. WINDSOR has joined Jones Emery Hargreaves Swan in Victoria to continue her practice in the areas of civil litigation and insurance litigation.

RYAN GALLAGHER joined Forrest C. Hume Law Corporation in November 2007 as an associate, where he will practise federal transportation law.

RINA MAHARAJ has joined Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP as an associate with the Corporate Finance and Banking Group. Rina articled with BH&T and was called to the B.C. Bar in September 2007. She was previously a partner with Walker Kontos Advocates, a leading law firm in Nairobi, Kenya, where she practised primarily in the areas of commercial and business law, banking and finance law, and conveyancing.

LANCE BREDESON has joined Bull, Housser & Tupper LLP as an associate with the Business Law Group. He articled at Farris LLP and then joined Baker Newby LLP where he was involved in corporate and commercial transactions. Lance was called to the B.C. Bar in 2004. He recently completed a Masters of Laws at the University of Toronto with a focus on securities and corporate law.

This article was published in the February 2008 issue of BarTalk. © 2008 The Canadian Bar Association. All rights reserved.