Associate Counsel Phone: (250) 385-1411 Fax: (250) 413-3300 E-mail: rcook@cookroberts.bc.ca   Wealth management and estate planning Succession planning for business owners Trust and estate administration Trust and estate dispute resolution Philanthropy planning Ongoing representation of business owners Inter-vivos organization (corporate structure and business-owner’s estate plan) to achieve the owner’s objectives (control, succession, avoid disputes) with tax efficiency. Post-mortem reorganization (corporate structure and business-owner’s estate plan) to resolve succession disputes and to defer or avoid taxation upon death. Fellow, American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (admitted 1996) Associate member (Business Law Section and Real Property, Probate and Trust Section) American Bar Association Coordinator/speaker/author for Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia and community groups Former member of committees of Law Society of British Columbia (Professional Standards, Education) Former elected delegate from Victoria to Provincial Council, Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch Former chair of Member Services Committee of Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch Former member of Executive of Victoria Bar Association Member, Victoria Estate Planning Council Appointed Queens Counsel, December 2001 Former director, University of Victoria Foundation and former chair of its Gift Planning Committee Former general counsel, Victoria Commonwealth Games Society and Member of its Board of Governors University of British Columbia, B.A., 1961 University of British Columbia, LL.B., 1964