Laura West is a partner in the firm's wealth and private client group. She is engaged in a general practice in the areas of wealth management, estates, trusts, charity, and not-for-profit law. She advises clients with respect to estate and incapacity planning, the establishment and administration of trusts, charitable giving, family business succession planning, corporate re-organizations, and estate administration, as well as the establishment, governance, and regulation of charities and non-profit organizations. West has taught wills and estate planning at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, and she is the co-author of the book Charitable Giving in Canada. She has lectured and written frequently on estate planning, charity, and non-profit legal issues, including articles and presentations for the Canadian Tax Foundation, the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (Canada), the Estates Trusts & Pensions Journal, the Canadian Bar Association, the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, the Law Society of Ontario, and the Canadian Association of Gift Planners, among others.
