Admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1975 and is currently an associate of the law firm of Spier Harben. Practices primarily in Family Law, Real Estate, Wills and Estate. Has also had extensive experience dealing with the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abductions. Has personally been involved in assisting clients and legal counsel to recover children that have been abducted by parents and relatives to other Provinces in Canada, the United States, Poland, France, Germany, Mexico, Brazil, Sweden, Italy, South Africa, Lebanon, Turkey, Japan and the United Kingdom. Has spoken to search agencies, law enforcement, lawyers, government representatives and Judges at Conferences in Las Vegas, Nevada, Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, Calgary, Washington D.C., Ottawa, Vancouver and Tokyo, Japan (2009/2010) dealing with Missing and Abducted Children’s issues. Is involved on the Federal Government level with developing an International Protocol for mediating cross-border family disputes. Has also lectured at the Federal/Provincial Canadian Judge’s Conference (National Judicial Institute) in February 2011 in the area of Inter-Provincial Child Abductions. Was a guest lecturer in Cape Town, South Africa in March 2011, dealing with the Canadian Experience in International Child Abductions, in Dubai in November 2011 speaking on Sharia Law in Canada and at various Canadian Bar Association Conferences in 2012.