Happy birthday to us‼️ PBP is celebrating a 7th anniversary on October 1, 2023.. It has been a busy couple of years and we’re grateful for another year of being able to help our wonderful clients with some great results. We could not have done it without our phenomenal law clerk Michelle Alijohn and the […]
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PBP Lawyers is proud to announce that Alex Procope has been ranked in the Private Wealth Disputes – Canada category of Chambers High Net Worth Guide 2023. Chambers and Partners seeks out referees from high net-worth clients and develops rankings based on assessments of the following qualities: Technical legal ability Professional conduct Client service Commercial […]
Alex Procope was been awarded the 2022 Hoffstein Book Prize! This award is given out annually to any Trusts and Estates Section member of the Ontario Bar Association with less than 15 years of practice. The nominating committee considered whether the recipient demonstrates leadership in the trusts and estates bar through knowledge, experience skill, commitment, […]
Alex Procope and Jane Meadus again co-chaired the Osgoode Elder Law 2022 Certificate Program. The program was conduced online again, which permitted a stellar line-up of speakers who appeared from across the country. Alex taught the sessions providing an overview of capacity and substitute-decision making regimes and on professional responsibility. PBP Lawyer Kelley Bryan also […]
Alex Procope spoke at the Law Society of Ontario’s 16th Family Law Summit on March 28, 2022. Alex joined a panel with Phil Brown, Senior Counsel at the Law Society’s Practice Supports and Resources and Harjot Dosanjh from the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee. The panel discussed client Capacity in Family Law. Alex’s […]
Alex Procope was invited to speak at the Ontario Bar Association Litigator’s Toolkit program, which took place on November 23, 2021. This program was presented by the OBA Trusts and Estates Section and reviewed strategies for moving your case forward including preparing for judicial mediation and case conferences; what to do if mediation fails and […]
PBP Lawyers are celebrating our fifth anniversary! We’re grateful to all of our clients and peers for supporting our ongoing work and we’re looking forward to the next five years! In honour of the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, we are making a donation to Aboriginal Legal Services and hope it helps their […]
PBP Lawyers, Kelley Bryan and Alex Procope have been recognized in Best Lawyers in Canada 2022 for trusts and estates. Kelley has been included on the Best Lawyers list and Alex has been included on the Ones to Watch List. Congratulations to them both and to all of the other recipients. We are honoured to […]
On September 23, 2021, Alex Procope presented a case law update alongside Lisa Filgiano counsel at the Office of the Public Guardian and Trustee. Practice Gems: Estates Administration 2021 was an online professional development program presented by the Law Society of Ontario. It covered topics including the unsettled law respecting beneficiary designations, compensation of lawyers acting as […]
Alex Procope co-chaired the Ontario Bar Association’s Innovation in Trusts & Estates Law 2021 program with Jonathan Keslassy of KFG Law on June 1, 2021. Some of the topics that were discussed are highlighted below. Friedrich Blasé, the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) Innovator in Residence, opened the discussion about the difficulties lawyers have choosing technology […]