Alison Oxtoby

First Year of Call
1997

Areas of Practice
Corporate and Commercial Law, Elder Law, Real Property, Taxation, Wills, Estates and Trusts

Description
Alison Oxtoby is a lawyer at Balmains Law Corporation, where she works primarily in the areas of trusts & estates, corporate/commercial law and tax-planned corporate reorganizations. She began her legal career over 20 years ago in Vancouver, where she was a partner with a leading national law firm. She moved to the Okanagan in 2008 and started her own firm with one other lawyer in 2014. Alison has completed the CICA’s In-depth Tax Course. She is a former member of the executive of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) Vancouver Branch, the Past-Chair of the STEP Okanagan Chapter and Past Co-Chair of the Canadian Bar Association’s Okanagan Wills & Trusts Section. She has lectured on a number of topics at the UVic and UBC law schools, at Okanagan College and for a number of educational organizations, including Continuing Legal Education of BC, the Law Society’s Professional Legal Training Program, Federated Press, STEP and the Canadian Bar Association.