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    January 21, 2019
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THE LAW FOUNDATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA he Board of Governors is pleased to announce that Geoff White of Kelowna has been elected as Chair of the Law Foundation for a two-year term beginning January 1, 2019. Mr. White succeeds Ms Eileen Vanderburgh who has been Chair of the Law Foundation since 2017. Mr. White has a practice that is focused on estate and charity law with offices in Kelowna and Vancouver (with Clark Wilson LLP). Mr. White is a frequent presenter on estate law and is co-editor of the CLE Probate and Estate Administration Practice Manual. Mr. White was the founding chair of the Okanagan Chapter of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners, and is a past Chair of the National CBA Elder Law Section, and the Kelowna Estate Planning Society. Mr. White earned his law degree from the University of Toronto, graduating in 1993 Mr. White has been a Governor of the Law Foundation since 2015, serving on the following committees during that time: Policy and Planning, Finance and Administration (Chair), and Class Actions. The Law Foundation of British Columbia is a non-profit foundation. It receives and distributes the interest on funds held in lawyers pooled trust accounts maintained in financial institutions The Law Foundation funds projects and programs throughout BC that benefit the public in the following areas: legal education, legal research, legal aid, law reform, and law libraries.