I am committed to client relationships, the community, and delivering legal solutions. I have been a reliable and trusted ally for small and mid sized business owners, families, and agribusinesses. With over 30 years of experience in real estate, business, estate planning and estate administration, I take a personal interest in my clients’ well-being.My work with business owners includes incorporations and shareholder agreements, sales of a businesses, reorganization of corporate ownership and succession, and financing; I also advise on commercial real estate acquisitions and sales along with leasing, with extensive knowledge and experience handling complex farm and rural residential real estate matters, grazing leases and the like. Clients also turn to me for all aspects of estate planning including the preparation of wills, enduring powers of attorney, and personal directives. I also work alongside families when there is a death to provide advice and direction to administer estate assets with compassion.Because I grew up, nurtured a law practice and raised a family in small town, rural Alberta (Drayton Valley), community connections with the people and businesses within it has been an interest and a focus for me. In a smaller centre, you get to know most everyone, their challenges and triumphs, and I enjoy providing practical and relevant advice with my roots in mind. The relationships with people and professionals is key. My general law practice start gave me a broad base to expand to all aspects of personal and business legal services, all the while understanding the underlying client needs and goals.Throughout my career, I have been an active volunteer for the Legal Education Society of Alberta, conducting lectures and acting as panel chair on their behalf, and was a part of the Real Estate Practice Advisory Committee and Conduct Panel for the Law Society of Alberta.I am dedicated to my family, and that has always translated into my community volunteering. I grew up in Drayton Valley, raised our daughter with my husband Glen, and formed strong connections with clients and their legal affairs in rural Alberta and beyond. I currently reside in Edmonton to support Laura's education at the University of Alberta, and am actively engaged with new clients in Duncan Craig’s Edmonton and Beaumont offices, as well as my clients in Drayton Valley and the surrounding areas. In my free time, you might see me fishing out at Buck Lake, Alberta, where our family enjoys some quiet cottage-time.