Lawyer Profile: John M. Rice

Legal Assistant: Dee Rogers
Phone: 604.682.3771
Fax: 604.682.0587

Biography:

A fourth generation lawyer born and raised in Vancouver, John is a partner at Jarvis McGee Rice LLP. His law practice is restricted to plaintiff's personal injury litigation. John has extensive litigation experience representing injured victims and their families for all types of trauma including whiplash, soft tissue injuries and chronic pain, post-traumatic headaches, dental and jaw injuries, emotional and psychological trauma, orthopedic and spinal cord injuries, and mild to severe traumatic brain injuries. John's law practice also includes fatality and family compensation actions and wrongful denial of insurance coverage claims.

Being in the courtroom and advocating on behalf of clients to judges or juries is what John loves to do. He has litigated in the British Columbia Provincial Court, Supreme Court and Court of Appeal, as well as the BC Labor Relations Board, Human Rights Tribunal, Employment Standards Tribunal, and the Workers Compensation Appeal Tribunal.

Professional Activities:

• Member, Law Society of British Columbia
• Member, Canadian Bar Association
• Member, Civil Litigation and Employment Law Sections, BC Branch, Canadian Bar Association
• Member, Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia
• Member, Lawyer-Pilot Bar Association of North America

Volunteerism:

• Executive-at-Large, Board of Directors, Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia (2009 to present)
  
  
• Parkinson Society of British Columbia:
  
  • President & Chair of the Board of Directors (2010-2011)
  • Vice President of the Board of Directors (2006-2010)
  • Member, Board of Directors (2004-2011)
  • Chairperson, Advocacy Committee (2005-2010)
    
    
• Member-at-Large, Vancouver Quadra Riding Association (2004-2007)

Education:

• B.A., History, McGill University (1999)
• L.L.B., University of British Columbia (2003)

Place and Year of Call:

• British Columbia, 2004

Interests

• Away from the office and the courtroom John spends time with friends and family. On August 1, 2011, BC Day, John and his wife Karley welcomed into the world their first child, a happy, healthy baby boy named Lewis. Other favorite pursuits include reading, cooking (and eating), thrashing around a golf course or on the ski hill, fighting gravity in the gym, remembering the glory days of a brief and mediocre rugby career, and following politics and the Vancouver Canucks.

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