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Scott T. Johnston
(604) 891-3614
stj@kkbl.com
(604) 891-3788
   
 
Bar Admissions/Year of Call: British Columbia 2001
Education: University of British Columbia B.A. (Honours Political Science), University of British Columbia, LL.B 2000
Areas of Practice: Corporate/Commercial, including Hospitality (Liquor Licensing), Privacy, and Commercial Real Estate
Legal Assistant’s Name: Eonta Ho
Legal Assistant’s Phone: (604) 891-3688 Extension 2728
Legal Assistant’s Email: emh@kkbl.com
Professional Experience: Scott advises clients on many corporate/commercial and commercial real estate matters with a particular emphasis on the hospitality industry. His experience includes the following:

  • Acted for a hospitality industry purchaser and vendor of the assets and shares of multiple prominent downtown Vancouver nightclubs, cabarets, bars, restaurants, and licensed premises, including advising on applicable liquor licensing law and regulatory procedures.

  • Acted for the purchasers of the assets and intellectual property, including patents, trade-marks, copyrights, and source code of technology companies in the businesses of providing payment acceptance technology for wireless and wired devices and open source computer programming software products and services.

Scott is the past author of the monthly “Legal View” column in Vancouver View magazine and is a co-author and contributor to, Family Law Agreements: Annotated Precedents (2006) and British Columbia Mortgages Practice Manual (2005), Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia.

Scott has been an actor in the Arts Club Theatre Company/Touchstone Theatre productions of Arsenic and Old Lace as “Mortimer Brewster”, Counsellor-at-Law as “Roy Darwin”, Murder on the Nile as “Smith”, Inherit The Wind as “E.K. Hornbeck”, The Government Inspector as “Osip”, and Witness for the Prosecution as “Carter”, all performed at the Stanley Theatre in Vancouver, British Columbia to raise funds for local charities, including the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre and the Alzheimer Society of British Columbia.
KOFFMAN KALEF ROMD Marketing and Design Inc.