Want to explain a complex topic in your field? Advocate for a more inclusive legal profession? Support law reform? Counter misinformation with your legal insights?
Share your expertise and build your profile by writing for BarTalk, the professional magazine for B.C.’s lawyers.
Here’s how:
- Select an approved topic or brainstorm a topic related to the themes listed below.
- Read the Style Guide.
- Pitch your article.
December 2025 – Adjudicators and Advocates
On the evolving relationship between the judiciary and legal professionals, covering both courts and tribunals
- The relationship between the judiciary and lawyers, both in theory and practice, and how different levels of court interact with legal professionals
- The role of decision-makers within the broader system of adjudication, such as those in administrative roles
- Practical tips for lawyers to help courts fulfill their responsibilities
- The importance of diversity on the bench and tribunals, particularly how cultural awareness (or lack thereof) influences subjective assessments of credibility
- The process/experience of becoming an adjudicator for the Law Society of British Columbia (LSBC) tribunal
- The mental wellness challenges faced by adjudicators
- The growing issue of judicial vacancies-whether it stems from a failure to appoint candidates or difficulties in finding qualified individuals
- Insights from an arbitrator on their decision-making processes
- The role of non-lawyer adjudicators in the legal system
- Administrative procedures within the province and their impact on legal decision-making
- Perspectives on dispute resolution and adjudication
- The extent one can relitigate factual issues across different tribunals and courts
February 2026 – Estate Law
On estate planning and litigation
- Managing digital assets and virtual legacies in modern estate planning
- Updates on testamentary capacity, with a potential focus on elder abuse and legal protections
- “The Great Stuff Transfer” - how millennials are inheriting vast amounts of assets and the complications that come with that
- Whether litigators are underutilizing the old black-letter law about challenging wills
- Estate taxation and its implications
- Succession planning for family businesses
- Charitable giving, taxation and charitable bequests
- The legitimacy of transferring assets outside of a will while still alive
- Properties held in trust that is not an additional insured were denied coverage after the California fires. How does this apply in B.C. jurisdiction?
- Assessing an individual’s capacity to create a will – can lawyers reliably determine competency, or should medical assessments be involved?
- The importance of lawyers having wills and the potential legal and financial consequences for their practice if they pass away without one
- Emerging pet-related issues in inheritance and estate law