Our civil litigation practice includes trial work and appeals in provincial and federal courts and to the Supreme Court of Canada, as well as appearances before arbitration panels, commissions of inquiry and administrative tribunals. We have the skills and experience to aggressively pursue our clients' interests in all levels of the courts.
Our lawyers have a broad range of experience in estate planning and the administration of estates. Our lawyers can draft and modify wills to meet your exact needs, from the simplest will to the most complicated. We also can provide you with powers of attorney and health care directives to address those situations when you may not be able to manage your financial matters or to make personal care decisions. We take you through the will and other estate planning documents step by step to ensure that your wishes are followed and clearly understood. If your situation requires, we work hand in hand with your accountant or other advisors to ensure that a complete plan is in place and tax payment is minimized. After a death and whether there is a will or not, Campbell Lea can provide the advice and services our clients require to deal with all probate matters in a cost effective manner.
When you are seriously injured you need competent legal help. Your future depends on it. And your family’s future may depend on it. Our lawyers care about you and your future. Their experience, knowledge and dedication will help you obtain fair financial compensation for your loss. We accept personal injury cases on a “contingency” basis under which our fee is based on your recovery.
Campbell Lea is known for its high level of skill in real estate transactions. We can handle any real estate transaction, large or small. We, together with our excellent researchers and staff, make sure that you do not get caught in any of the legal pitfalls that can surround real estate transactions. Our lawyers service financial institutions, corporations, builders, developers, governments, non-resident individuals and companies, and individual purchasers and sellers in all aspects of real estate transactions. Our real estate lawyers will work together with other members of the firm and other professionals to ensure that your needs, whether it be tax issues, environmental issues or litigation relating to a real estate transaction, are met in a timely, cost-effective manner.
We provide business law services to sole proprietors, partnerships, companies and joint ventures in a wide spectrum of industries, including primary production, manufacturing and distribution, energy and resources, financial and other services. Our lawyers can negotiate shareholders agreements, franchise agreements, employment or independent contractor agreements, contracts for buying or selling a business, as well as contracts for goods and services. We have extensive experience in all types of financing for commercial transactions. We strive to give our clients the best service in terms of turn-around time and value. Corporate re-structuring transactions are approached in conjunction with your accounting advisor to ensure that the most tax-advantageous results are obtained for you. We provide comprehensive legal services to a wide range of clients from entrepreneurs who wish to start a new business to public companies and major institutions requiring sophisticated legal services. While we are experienced in handling difficult transactions, which may involve large amounts of money, we regularly handle smaller dollar transactions with equal care and attention. We are sensitive to the needs of business and we have the right combination of lawyers to provide timely and cost-effective solutions to problems and to advance our clients business and legal objectives.
Campbell Lea offers experienced representation in all aspects of criminal and quasi-criminal law. We have the personnel, expertise and resources to fully defend individuals, groups and corporations, in relation to all charges and allegations, from summary offence tickets to serious Criminal Code and regulatory offences. Our firm has conducted criminal trials both with and without juries, and our lawyers regularly appear before the Provincial and Supreme Courts across Prince Edward Island on criminal and related matters. On a number of occasions, we have acted as defence counsel in prominent cases in which significant precedents have been set.
Campbell Lea has a number of skilled lawyers who can provide advice and representation with regard to your rights and obligations relating to marriage, cohabitation, separation, divorce, child custody and access to children, adoption, paternity, spousal and child support, division of assets, and protection from abuse. We encourage clients to attempt to settle these issues by the negotiation of agreements and the use of alternative dispute resolution services. In the cases which cannot be satisfactorily settled, we have the skills to aggressively pursue our clients' interests in court.
Our lawyers represent management in all sectors, including financial services, manufacturing, technology, transportation, oil and gas, natural resources, public utilities, health care, accounting, logistics services, retail and wholesale industries. We keep our clients up to date on new legislation and the evolution of policies of labour relations tribunals and government agencies. We represent clients before the Canada and Provincial Labour Relations Boards, before other tribunals dealing with labour and employment-related issues, at arbitration hearings and before the courts. We provide responsive and innovative legal advice as well as expert representation. Our comprehensive knowledge of labour legislation and case law, our extensive experience in all facets of labour and employment law, and our keen appreciation of the economic and business pressures constantly facing our clients have enabled us to successfully represent employers in many leading cases. The firm provides extensive and varied services in the field of labour, employment, and employee benefits law, as well as labour-related civil and criminal litigation.
We have served as general, local or special counsel to various unions, whose interests we have represented in administrative and court proceedings as well. The firm has also represented individuals, businesses, and labour organizations in litigated and arbitrated employment disputes, including claims of discrimination. We have negotiated employment and severance agreements for businesses and individuals. On numerous occasions, we have represented corporate and union officials in the defense of directors and officers and errors and omissions claims, both under insurance policies and otherwise.
Campbell Lea offers independent case evaluation to provide an objective assessment of the probability that litigation is financially worthwhile to those involved in the litigation. We act for parties involved in mediation and arbitration or in other forms of third party neutral negotiation. We also design dispute resolution procedures and structures to resolve disputes in a cost-effective manner, and we act as arbitrators, mediators, fact-finders, or third party neutrals in a facilitative or evaluative capacity. At Campbell Lea we recognize the importance to the client of having their case resolved in a timely and inexpensive manner. That is why our goal is, before anything else, to find a way to resolve the matter in a way that is beneficial to the client economically and resolves the issue quickly and to their expectations.
Campbell Lea's team of legal professionals set the highest standards for efficiently untangling the complex world of regulatory boards and tribunals. Our lawyers are experts at working within the complex area of governmental rules and procedures, protecting the rights of business, group and individual clients. Our lawyers regularly appear before a broad range of governmental boards and tribunals. Our services include: advocating on behalf of clients with administrative staff of government agencies to facilitate or expedite regulatory approvals; assisting clients to obtain full return or entitlement under applicable government regulations; ensuring guidelines, timelines, and limitation periods are followed, and where applicable, enforced. Campbell Lea lawyers in this area also provide expert advice regarding compliance with regulatory requirements, regulatory orders, hearings and appeals (including applications and appeals to the courts for Judicial Review), regulatory investigations, injunctions, and defence of quasi-criminal prosecutions.