Boughton Associate Counsel Tony Wilson elected as Bencher of the Law Society of British Columbia

November 21, 2011 - Boughton congratulates  Tony Wilson on his recent election as a Bencher of the Law Society of British Columbia.  Tony finished 4th out of 20 candidates for the Vancouver district.

Tony  is Associate Counsel at Boughton Law Corporation, and has a commercial practice that focuses on franchising, licensing and intellectual property law. He also advises on trademark, copyright, trade secret, confidentiality, privacy and general commercial law. He is ranked as a leading Canadian franchise lawyer by LEXPERT and is an Adjunct Professor at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of Manage Your Online Reputation, a book written to guide individuals and businesses on how to monitor and protect their personal and corporate reputations on social media. He regularly speaks about online reputation management to lawyers, businesses, schools and on radio and television. He is a regular columnist with the Globe and Mail, where he writes about legal and business matters every second Tuesday. He is also a regular columnist with Lawyer’s Weekly, and has two widely read opinion columns in Bartalk Magazine and Canadian Lawyer. Over his career, he has taught PLTC, chaired CLE programs on franchise law and served as a member of the BC Law Institute's Unfair Contracts Relief Project. He is an elected member for Vancouver County on the Provincial Council of the BC Branch of the CBA, and is a founding participant in the Boughton/BCLI Great Debate.

Law Society Benchers are volunteers who have responsibility for the governance of the legal profession in British Columbia.  Tony's election as a Bencher is testament to the regard in which he is held by his peers in the legal community.

For more information on Tony's practice, please click here.