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Dunsmuir Law
Experience - Trust - Service - Value
Experience
At Dunsmuir Law, we have practiced law for over seventeen years. Experience and sound judgment, in combination with legal knowledge, are essential to the obtaining of practical, meaningful, and beneficial results. At Dunsmuir Law, we pride ourselves on ensuring that our advice and legal representation is aimed at achieving practical, meaningful, and effective results for you.
Trust
At Dunsmuir Law you have our commitment to tell you in advance in writing what our services will realistically cost, and do the work for what we say it will cost. In particular, we deliver family law services on a value-based, fixed-fee, basis that does not use a lawyer’s hourly rate for their time as the basis for calculating the fees to be charged. We provide a free initial consultation for all legal matters and will listen, evaluate, explain, and advise, BEFORE you have any obligation to us. As a result of our consultation, if you decide to retain us to provide legal services to you, then and only then, do you incur any obligation, which is always based on the terms of our written agreement with you. Guaranteed.
Service
At Dunsmuir Law, we recognize the importance of timeliness, whether it is in a communication, correspondence, preparation of a document, filings, or our advice. You have our commitment to do what we say we will do when we say we will do it. This is a hallmark of professionalism, and our promise to you.
Value
At Dunsmuir Law, we pride ourselves on using our knowledge and experience to provide meaningful, but cost-effective legal services, for our client's needs including effective solutions to their legal problems. We recognize that the cost of legal services should be based on such factors as the importance of the matter in question, the degree of complexity in obtaining a remedy or solution, the results actually achieved, and the value to you of such result, not just the amount of time spent working on a matter. At Dunsmuir Law, our promise to you is that our accounts will always: reflect only the work that needed to be done for you in your legal matter, be reasonable, proportionate, and above all, fair.
Biography
Born in Saint John, New Brunswick, and educated at the University of New Brunswick and the University of British Columbia, David H. Dunsmuir has been a member of the Law Society of New Brunswick since 1993, and past member of the Law Society of British Columbia from 1992 until 2004, with a broad, diverse, and in-depth practice experience as both a Barrister and Solicitor, enhanced by administrative and adjudicative experience as a former Clerk, Court Administrator, and Deputy Registrar, of the Court of the Queen’s Bench and Probate Court of New Brunswick.
Solicitor’s practice experience has included:
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Corporate-commercial law handling all aspects of commercial real estate purchases and sale, asset and share purchases, Provincial and Federal incorporations and corporate reorganizations, including mergers and amalgamations, corporate reinstatement, financing, intellectual property such as trade marking and copyright protection, and collections;
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residential real estate purchases and sales, including subdivision and amalgamation, mortgaging, and re-financing;
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All aspects of Wills and Estates practice, including obtaining of the grant of probate and administration, contested estate matters involving claims of undue influence and lack of testamentary capacity in the preparation of Wills and Powers of Attorney, claims by disenfranchised beneficiaries under dependant relief legislation, and the passing of accounts;
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Seventeen years of experience in all aspects of Family Law such as preparation of pre-nuptial and co-habitation agreements, separation agreements, and private adoptions, as well as resolution of Family Law issues such as separation and divorce, custody and access to children, child and spousal support, division of assets and apportionment of debts, following from breakdown of relationships, and constructive and resulting trust claims seeking a division of assets between unmarried persons; and
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Elder Law, including powers of attorney for property and health care, and infirmed person’s applications.
Civil litigation experience for both plaintiff and defendant has included cases involving issues such as:
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Business law disputes, including breaches of shareholder’s agreements;
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Issues arising from commercial leases;
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personal injury;
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refusals by insurance companies to pay claims arising from policies of insurance;
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products liability claims, including defective and dangerous products, and economic loss arising from such;
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wrongful death arising from aircraft accident;
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damage claims for assault including medical battery;
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contractor’s liability cases;
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mortgage foreclosures;
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breaches of policies of insurance;
In addition to being a guest lecturer for the Canadian Bar Association, Mr. Dunsmuir is organizing a number of upcoming public lectures on topics of family law, wills and estates, creditor’s remedies, and small claims practice. For information on the dates times and locations of these upcoming programs, contact us.
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