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Conan Taylor - Spectrum Family Law

Conan Taylor

MANAGING PARTNER

Conan Taylor is a partner of Spectrum Family Law. He practices exclusively in the areas of workplace law, including labour, employment, and commercial litigation matters.

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Eric Lam - Spectrum Family Law

Eric Lam

PARTNER

Eric C. Lam is a lawyer in the firm’s Edmonton office. He provides clear legal advice and professional representation to clients involved in wrongful dismissals, review of severance packages, workplace bullying, discrimination, and sexual harassment, as well as other Employment Law matters.

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Jon Dowhaluk - Spectrum Family Law

Jonathan Dowhaluk

PARTNER

Jon has a wealth of experience advocating for his clients in judicial, quasi-judicial as well as in dispute resolution venues. Jon appreciates the difficulties of dealing with each person’s unique family situation and is very experienced advocating for his clients to ensure their best interests are protected.

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Family Lawyers

Dustin Patz - Spectrum Family Law

Dustin Patzer

FAMILY LAWYER

Dustin was born and raised in Lethbridge, Alberta. During his high school years, football was his passion. The highlight of his high school years was winning a National Championship as a member of Team Alberta and being named Defensive MVP of the tournament. Dustin then played four years of football for the Okanagan Sun in British Columbia earning two Conference All-star awards.

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Kristin Smith - Spectrum Family Law

Kristin Smith

FAMILY LAWYER

Kristin was born and raised in Calgary, obtaining her Bachelor of Arts (with distinction, majoring in Psychology), from the University of Calgary. Kristin attended law school at the University of Alberta, where she was actively involved in the community with both the Law Students Association and Student Legal Services.

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Ashna Prakash - Spectrum Family Law

Ashna Prakash

FAMILY LAWYER

Ashna Prakash is a family lawyer working out of the Calgary office, and offers services in English as well as in Hindi. Ashna’s practice is trauma-informed, applying a therapeutic and empathetic lens to her family cases. This means harnessing the client’s strengths and building off that to determine how we can best resolve matters, and potentially use other services to meet the client’s or the family’s needs.

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Emily Van Veghel - Spectrum Family Law

Emily Van Veghel

FAMILY LAWYER

Emily has extensive litigation experience, appearing in all levels of family court multiple times per week. Her practice focuses on multiple family legal issues including divorce, parenting, child and spousal support, family property, restraining and protection orders, separation, cohabitation and/or prenuptial agreements and negotiation.

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Shivaan de Silva - Spectrum Family Law

Shivaan de Silva

FAMILY LAWYER

Whether you are a spouse considering divorce, but needs to consider the implications on your family business, or are a co-parent who needs to consider the practical effects of accepting a potential job offer in another jurisdiction, Shivaan is eager to listen and help you consider what legal options you may have available.

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Allison Ross - Spectrum Family Law

Allison Ross

FAMILY LAWYER

Allison provides a balanced approach to family law files and strives to help families in the midst of separation and divorce. She has a wealth of experience in litigation including appearing in trials, Special Chambers applications and case conferences. She also is a member of the Association of Collaborative Lawyers of Central Alberta and has experience helping clients find solutions both in the collaborative process and in other forms of settlement meetings and alternative dispute resolution practices.

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Alfonso Chen - Spectrum Family Law

Alfonso Chen

FAMILY LAWYER

Alfonso is a lawyer of our Vancouver office who provides services in both English and Mandarin. Prior to joining our firm, he worked at a full-service law firm for over four years, where he helped clients with a wide variety of family law matters, from drafting prenuptial agreements to negotiating terms for and drafting separation agreements to representing clients for divorces.

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Kasia Troczynski - Spectrum Family Law

Kasia Troczynski

FAMILY LAWYER

Kasia was born and raised in Vancouver, British Columbia, where she completed her Bachelor’s degree at the University of British Columbia. She went on to obtain her Juris Doctorate with Honours from Bond University in Australia.

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My Chau Cao - Spectrum Family Law

My Chau Cao

FAMILY LAWYER

My Chau’s approach to family law is working closely with clients to produce realistic and practical solutions to resolve their matters.  She believes that every situation is unique and requires its own special touch.  She has extensive experience in the Provincial Court of Alberta and Court of Kings Bench, particularly in parenting matters.

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Susan Gill - Spectrum Family Law

Susan Gill

FAMILY LAW STUDENT

Susan is a Student-at-Law with the firm. Susan recognizes that during family law matters, clients experience significant personal stress. Hence, she strives to take a client-centred and empathetic approach to provide the best solutions for her clients.

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Chandrima Gupta - Spectrum Family Law

Chandrima Gupta

FAMILY LAW STUDENT

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Administration

Alayna Astle - Spectrum Family Law

Alayna Astle

PARALEGAL, LEGAL ASSISTANT

Alayna is a Senior Family Law Paralegal practicing in Alberta and British Columbia. She has been working as a paralegal for approximately 20 years.  She has explored a variety of areas of law from real estate, corporate, commercial, Wills and Estates litigation, civil litigation, and criminal, but her expertise is in family law.

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Donna Popiel - Spectrum Family Law

Donna Popiel

PARALEGAL, LEGAL ASSISTANT

Donna has 24 years of experience as a family law paralegal and legal assistant.  Donna makes it her goal to assist clients through their family law matters and make the process as cost-effective, easy to understand, and stress-free as possible.

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Krystal Reddy - Spectrum Family Law

Krystal Reddy

PARALEGAL, LEGAL ASSISTANT

Krystal strives to provide quality and cost-effective support, to enhance the solicitor/client relationship. Krystal’s experience, along with her sensible, no non-sense attitude ensures your matter will move along efficiently with a consistent point of contact to your legal team.

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Amanda Vanin - Spectrum Family Law

Amanda Vanin

PARALEGAL, LEGAL ASSISTANT

Amanda has extensive experience in drafting legal documents and file management and enjoys working closely with lawyers and clients. She finds it important to communicate with clients and at times provide a sympathetic ear when they may be worried or scared. She has assisted on cases in the Court of Kings Bench, Provincial Court of Alberta, The Alberta Court of Appeal, Federal Court of Appeal and Human Rights Commission.

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Kim McArthur

PARALEGAL, LEGAL ASSISTANT

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Carmen Kvale - Spectrum Family Law

Carmen Kvale

PARALEGAL, LEGAL ASSISTANT

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Julie - Spectrum Family Law

Julie Harris

RECEPTION

Growing up Julie spent a lot of time watching her mom in the world of process serving and gained interest in the legal system from a young age. She continues to grow her understanding of the Family Legal System, and works everyday to support your matter through her organization and interpersonal skills. Julie is an integral part of the Spectrum Team.

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