Overview
Hillary Linden, TEP, is a lawyer specializing in estate law and a member of the firm’s Private Client Services group. She focuses on complex estate planning and administration matters. Hillary’s work in these areas includes:
Estate Planning:
- Preparing estate planning documents including wills, trusts, powers of attorney for property, powers for attorney for personal care (Ontario) and representation agreements (British Columbia);
- Providing tax advice pertaining to trusts and their beneficiaries;
- Incapacity planning;
- Probate fee planning;
- Multijurisdictional estate planning; and
- Planning for beneficiaries with disabilities.
Estate Administration:
- Advising personal representatives regarding the proper administration of a trust or estate;
- Preparing applications for probate and applications to reseal foreign grants of probate or to obtain an ancillary grant; and
- Providing tax advice pertaining to trusts and their beneficiaries.
Hillary’s membership in the firm’s Private Client Services group and continuous involvement in the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners ensures that her service is up to date and reflective of best practices. She is licensed to practice law in both Ontario and British Columbia.
Professional achievements & leadership
- STEP Canada Prize in Estate Law, 2020
- Frank Billinkof Prize in Wills and Succession, 2020
Thought leadership
- Co-Author, "Selecting the Beneficiaries of a Trust", prepared for the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia' s Conference, "Trusts in the 21st Century 2023: The Seas are Getting Choppier", May 25, 2023
- Co-Author, "Considerations for U.S. Owners of Canadian Real Property", prepared for the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel's (ACTEC) Annual Meeting, March 1-5, 2023
- Co-Presenter, "Beneficiary Designations Made Clear", the Ontario Bar Association Elder Law Program, September 21, 2022
- Co-Author, STEP Journal Regional Focus US and Canada, "An Overview of Changes to Canada's Trusts, Estates and Succession Laws", Issue 4, 2022
Community involvement
- Legal Reviewer, People's Law School, 2023
Corporate directorships
- Director, Heartwood Healing Centre (Winnipeg, Manitoba), 2021 - present
Professional memberships
- Estate Planning Council of Canada
- Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners
- Canadian Bar Association
- The Law Society of Manitoba (non-practising)
- The Law Society of Ontario
- The Law Society of British Columbia
Bar admissions & education
- British Columbia, 2023
- Ontario, 2022
- Manitoba, 2021
- Juris Doctor, University of Manitoba, 2020
- Advanced Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics (with Distinction), University of Manitoba, 2017
- Academic Exchange, University of Greifswald, 2014-2015
