Course Chairs
Amanda M. James — Apna Law LLP, Burnaby
Amanda Winters — Scion Law LLP, Vancouver
About the Course Chairs
Amanda James maintains a busy litigation practice focusing extensively on family and estate litigation. She has represented clients in both areas at every level of court in BC.
Amanda's legal expertise in family law focuses on family property and debt division, including complex corporate asset division, guideline income calculation and child support issues, relocation and jurisdictional issues as well as prenuptial and cohabitation agreements. On estate matters, Amanda has acted for beneficiaries, executors, administrators and trustees helping them address wills variation, wills validity, estate administration issues as well as construction and interpretation of wills.
Amanda Winters is a partner at Scion Law LLP, a boutique firm providing private client services in the areas of tax, trusts, estates, and family law. She represents clients in both family and estate matters, and has a particular interest in matters where these two areas of law intersect. Amanda has represented clients at all levels of court in BC, as well as courts in other Canadian jurisdictions. She appears frequently in Supreme Court Chambers. She has conducted trials in Provincial Court and Supreme Court, as well as conducted hearings in the Court of Appeal.
Amanda was called to the BC bar in March 2014. Before joining Scion Law, Amanda was a partner at a large regional law firm in Vancouver, practicing exclusively in the areas of family and estate litigation. In addition to her professional speaking and writing endeavours, Amanda is the proud coach of the TRU Family Law Negotiation Moot Team.
On a personal note, Amanda grew up in Kamloops before making Vancouver her home. In her previous lives, Amanda was an English teacher overseas, a synchronized swimming coach, and a movie columnist for an independent newspaper. When not at the office, Amanda spends her spare time with her husband Jesse exploring Vancouver's latest and greatest restaurants, and getting lost in books from her eclectic "must read" list.