Tony Edwards has moved his patent practice to Benson Edwards LLP (formerly Benson & Company) in Kelowna.

Angela S. Kerslake has moved her matrimonial law practice to “The Galbraith Professional Centre” located at 131 Eighth Street, New Westminster, B.C. V3M 3P6.

Dan De Frias has moved from in-house counsel with the U.S.W.A., Local 1-424 in Prince George, to join the Fraser Health Authority as Advocacy Consultant, Labour Relations in New Westminster.

Merrill Shepard has moved from Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP to join Donovan & Company, a Vancouver law firm practising exclusively in the area of aboriginal law.

Effective September 6, 2005, Michael Adam will be leaving the partnership and the Labour and Employment Practice at Alexander Holburn Beaudin & Lang to join Weyerhaeuser Company Ltd. as a Director of Labour Relations.

Heidi A. Telstad has left Miller Thomson in Calgary to join Sliman, Stander & Company’s Chilliwack office where she will be practising general corporate and commercial law.

Carolyn R. Christiansen has relocated from MacLean Family Law Group in Vancouver to Nixon Wenger in Vernon, where she will continue to practise in the area of family law.

Robert Peterson has moved from the Patrick G. Guy Law Corporation to the B.C.

Cancer Foundation where he will focus on major gifts and planned giving to support research and care at the B.C. Cancer Agency’s Vancouver Island Centre.

This article was published in the October 2005 issue of BarTalk. © 2005 The Canadian Bar Association. All rights reserved.