Ross D. Ellis joined DuMoulin Boskovich LLP as an Associate Counsel in March 1999. He practices primarily in corporate commercial litigation, real estate and the realization and insolvency fields. He also deals with business law, insurance defence and personal injury matters.
Ross has comprehensive experience dealing with franchising litigation, PPSA and creditor enforcement proceedings, real estate litigation, including builders liens, lease enforcement proceedings and purchase and sale disputes and Bankruptcy and Insolvency matters for creditors, debtors and trustees, monitors and receivers. He also has considerable experience in dealing with contracts, franchise and licence agreements, real estate development, commercial leasing, company law, the purchase and sale of businesses and wills.
Ross participates in the Canadian Bar Association Lawyer Referral Program and is a member of the Vancouver Trustee’s Insolvency Discussion Group and the Real Estate, Litigation and Insolvency subsections of the Canadian Bar Association. Ross has spoken or written papers on litigation, franchise, insurance, PPSA, real estate, corporate and bankruptcy and insolvency issues.
Ross was born in Vancouver but lived in a number of towns around the Province as he grew up. He graduated from High School in Vancouver. Ross attended the Faculty of Commerce at UBC with a focus on finance and accounting and received a B. Comm. from UBC. He then started law school and secured his law degree from U.B.C. in 1983.
Ross was a partner at another major Vancouver law firm for several years before joining DuMoulin Boskovich LLP.
Ross currently spends most of his free time on his duties as the father of two children. He has been active in the past as a member of the School Planning Council for his children’s school and has been a regular participant in the school’s Parent Advisory Council meetings.