Lawyer Profile
Gary A. Befus
Standoff, Alberta
Overview
For more than 60 years, Walsh LLP has been an integral part of the Alberta legal community. We have a distinct firm culture that encourages lawyers to work together to give clients the tools they need to succeed – at home, in business, and in the community. From our offices in Calgary, Canmore, Claresholm, Okotoks and Stand Off, we find solutions that are right for our clients.
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Gary is a Senior Counsel at Walsh LLP who practices in the area of Civil and Commercial Litigation.
Gary has been a lifelong student of the law who enjoys the challenge each case brings to develop a winning strategy.
Gary has been a steady hand at Walsh LLP since articling here in 1987. From the hard-to-believe now blue haze of cigarette and cigar smoke and the squawking telex machine in the earlier years to the modern digital office one thing never changed – Gary has been a fierce advocate for the firm’s clients.
Gary has been immersed in just about everything over his thirty years plus with Walsh, including major prosecutions for the federal government in areas of tax fraud and gang conspiracy cases, to corporate restructurings and insolvencies and First Nations land claims. He has litigated in every Court including the Supreme Court of Canada, Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal, and all levels of Alberta Courts. Throughout his career he accepted and enjoyed roles as trial counsel in a variety of areas on major complex litigation. These experiences have developed his skills as a team leader on difficult and complex legal battles. Gary has been a lifelong student of the law who enjoys the challenge each case brings to develop a winning strategy. The quest to get it right and fiercely advocate for his clients is his motivation for practicing law.
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Bar Information
Called to the bar: 1988 (AB)