A Litigator's Arsenal 2025

Course Chairs
Daxton S. Boeré — Farris LLP, Vancouver
Rebecca M. Morse — Farris LLP, Vancouver

About the Course Chairs
Daxton Boeré is an associate in Farris' litigation group, where they maintain a general litigation practice with a focus on estate and insolvency litigation. Daxton uses they/them pronouns.

Daxton earned their JD from the Peter A. Allard School of Law at UBC in 2022. While in law school, they were an associate editor of the UBC Law Review, co-president of the 2SLGBTQIA+ student group OutLaws, and founder and president of Trans @ Allard.

Prior to attending law school, Daxton held numerous jobs ranging from frozen pea quality control tester to oil field construction labourer to toy store stock manager. They have a BA in English grammar and rhetoric from UBC and a corresponding love of a well-positioned em dash.

Daxton enjoys weightlifting, historical longsword fighting, and plying their friends and colleagues with baked goods.

Rebecca Morse has a broad range of experience in civil litigation matters including contractual disputes, construction disputes, insolvency and restructuring matters, estate and trust disputes, and international trade matters. She is recognized by The Best Lawyers in Canada for corporate and commercial litigation, trusts and estates, and insolvency & financial restructuring law. She is also recognized as a Lexpert Leading Lawyer and by Benchmark as a Litigation Star and one of the Top 100 Women in Canada.

She has experience in conducting trials, appeals, mediations, arbitrations and administrative hearings, and Rebecca has acted for a variety of corporations (both publicly listed and privately held), individuals, and financial institutions. She has appeared before the BC Supreme Court, the BC Court of Appeal, and the Canadian International Trade Tribunal. Rebecca has also represented clients in matters before the High Court of Justice of England and Wales.

Rebecca is a member of the Private Enterprise Advisory Services team at Farris which is focused on mid-market privately owned businesses. It is a multi-disciplinary practice group formed to better deliver the specific legal services that these businesses need. The Farris team works closely together to provide comprehensive advice to private clients and their companies, and Rebecca's contribution is typically focused on providing advice on litigation matters as well as family estate and trust disputes.

Faculty
Justice Sharon D. Matthews — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Associate Judge Kimberley A. Robertson — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Justice Amy D. Francis — Supreme Court of BC, Vancouver
Arden Beddoes — McEwan Partners, Vancouver
Tara R. Britnell, KC — Hamilton Duncan Law Corporation, Surrey
Karey Brooks, KC — JFK Law LLP, Vancouver
Mary I.A. Buttery, KC — Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Vancouver
Andrew Crabtree — Crabtree Law, West Vancouver
Ariyana Dhawan — McEwan Partners, Vancouver
Michael Feder, KC — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver
Ludmila B. Herbst, KC — Farris LLP, Vancouver
Merran Hergert — Sean Hern Law, Vancouver
Stephanie John — Jenkins, Marzban, Logan LLP, Vancouver
William Kaplan, KC — WCK Personal Law Corporation, Vancouver
Gita Keshava — Ethos Law Group LLP, Vancouver
Helen H. Low, KC — Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP, Vancouver
George K. Macintosh, KC — McEwan Partners LLP, Vancouver
Monique Pongracic-Speier, KC — Ethos Law Group LLP, Vancouver
Peter J. Roberts, KC — Lawson Lundell LLP, Vancouver 
Rose P. Singh — Chief Executive Officer, Triage Data Solutions, Vancouver
Kaelan Unrau — JFK Law LLP, Vancouver
David Volk — Jenkins, Marzban, Logan LLP, Vancouver

Course Materials Contributor
Connor Bildfell — McCarthy Tétrault LLP, Vancouver

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