Victoria Gates

Victoria is a Senior Paralegal in our Business Law Group, assisting in wills and estates matters for a variety of individual and business clients. Victoria joined Watson Goepel as a paralegal in our Business Law Group in 2020. Victoria is a senior paralegal assisting and drafting/reviewing documents relating to trusts, standard single wills/dual wills, declarations of trust, representation agreements, powers of attorney, transfer, and transmissions of real property for a variety of individual and business clients. She continues to be a conduit for clients that transferred over to our firm relating to the purchase of Charles V. Winch Law Corporation in 2020.

Victoria’s past experience includes 10 years in a general firm learning corporate law, securities law, and basic residential real estate with a medium sized general practice law firm.

Victoria commutes daily from Squamish and likes to hike, bike and ski with her husband and 2 sons.

Education

• Various annual CLE courses re the Wills and Estates
• Paralegal Diploma, Capilano College, 2005
• Legal Assistant Certificate, Capilano College, 1996

Professional and Community Affiliations

• Registered Paralegal, BC Paralegal Association