Raman Johal

Based in our Vancouver office, Raman Johal is a partner in Gowling WLG's Advocacy, Private Client Services, and Insurance and Professional Liability groups. Her practice focuses on a wide range of estates and insurance issues.

Raman is sought after for her significant legal experience in complicated and contentious estates. Her estates experience includes incapacity and undue influence issues; wills variation claims; division of property matters; removal of executors; adult guardianship and committeeships applications; and elder abuse including predatory relationships.

Raman is highly active within Canada's estates community. She is the past chair of the CBA Wills & Trusts Vancouver subsection, and has contributed to the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia Estate Planning and Wealth Preservation Manual, the BC Probate and Estate Administration Practice Manual and the Canadian Association of Gift Planner's Executors' Guide. She is also a director on the boards of the Coast Mental Health Foundation and Alzheimer Society of BC.

With respect to insurance matters, she creates strategies with clients to effectively manage risks for insureds and insurers related to liability, property and coverage claims under commercial liability, motor vehicle and homeowner policies. In particular, she focuses on fraud and class actions. She is the past chair of the CBA Vancouver Insurance subsection, frequently presented at the Insurance Institute of BC and contributed to publications with the Insurance Bureau of Canada.

Associations professionnelles

  • CBA BC Wills & Trusts Vancouver, Past Chair
  • Canadian Association of Gift Planners, Greater Vancouver Area Chapter, Chair
  • Continuing Legal Education BC – Estate Planning and Wealth Preservation Manual, Contributor
  • Continuing Legal Education BC – BC Probate and Estate Administration Manual, Contributor
  • CBA BC Insurance Subsection, Past Chair
  • Insurance Bureau of Canada P&C Decision Panel
  • South Asian Bar Association of British Columbia (SABABC), Member

Actualités et ressources

Articles & presentations

  • Canadian Association of Gift Planners, National Conference in Toronto – How to Deal with Problem Executors, March 2017
  • Insurance Institute of British Columbia – Short Term Rentals and Insurance Coverage Concerns, September 2016
  • Canadian Association of Gift Planners, Greater Vancouver Area Chapter – Estate Administration & WESA Update, May 2016
  • Canadian Bar Association – How to Prepare Your Solicitor's File to Withstand Litigation, April 2016
  • Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia – The ABCs of Committeeships, February 2016
  • Canadian Bar Association, National Insurance Webinar – Material Change in Risk and Reasonable Expectations, January 2014
  • Insurance Institute of British Columbia – Duty to Defend, Faith Awards, New Tort of Invasion of Privacy and Legislative Changes, June 2013
  • Insurance Institute of British Columbia – Bad Faith Awards, New Tort of Invasion of Privacy and Legislative Changes, May 2012