Clare Burns
Partner
Experience
Practice Areas
Speaking Engagements
Chair, "The Difficult Witness", Dealing With Difficult People Series, The Advocates’ Society, Online, October 19, 2021
Speaker, "23rd National Conference", Step Canada, Online, June 14 and June 15, 2021
Speaker, "Tackling Financial Abuse of Elders", The Osgoode Certificate in Elder Law, Online, April 21, 2021
Speaker, “Turning the Page: The Future of Virtual Witnessing and Electronic Wills”, Estate Planning Council of Vancouver, Online, February 23, 2021
Frequent speaker at: The Law Society of Upper Canada Special Lectures - Estates, Personal Injury, LSUC Estates and Trusts Forum, LSUC Continuing Education Programmes; The Advocates' Society Lunch Bag Series; National Judicial Institute; Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners; Ontario Bar Association; Ottawa-Carleton Law Association; Ontario Trial Lawyers Association; Ontario Psychiatric Association; Judicial Continuing Education Programs for the Superior Court of Justice and the Ontario Court of Justice; Osgoode Hall Law School; University of Western Ontario Law School; University of Toronto.
Speaker, "Capacity to Retain and Instruct Counsel", Canadian Elder Law Conference - Bridging the gap: Elder law for everyone, Vancouver, BC, November 14, 2019
Co-Presenter (with Hayley Peglar), "The Role of Accountants in Estate Litigation", GTA Accountants Network/GTA Finance Network, Toronto, ON, November 12, 2019
Speaker, "Estate Tax Planning Gone Awry", B'nai Brith Canada, Toronto, ON May 20, 2018.
Speaker, "Increasing the Odds of a Successful Mediation", Advocates' Society 6 Minute Estates Lawyer, May 3, 2018
Speaker, Senior Estate Planning & Litigation Forum, April 22-24, 2018
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Additional Publications
- Co-Author, “Traps for the Unwary: Joint Asset Planning”, The Six-Minute Estates Lawyer 2022, May 25, 2022
- Co-Author, “The Role of the Medical Expert in the Retrospective Assessment of Testamentary Capacity”, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Volume 65 Issue 4, April 2020