Back to DirectoryFrank Lavitt
E-mail: flavitt@tmlawyers.com
Direct Line: 988-0438
Direct Fax: 953-7189

Business Law, Taxation, Wills, Estates & Estate Planning

Partner
Admitted to bar, 1980, Manitoba.

Education
University of Manitoba, LL.B., 1979, University of Manitoba, B.Com.,(Hons.), 1976.

Member
The Law Society of Manitoba; Manitoba Bar Association, Chairman of the Tax Subsection 1984-1990; Canadian Bar Association; Canadian Tax Foundation.

Positions
Manitoba Governor of the Canadian Tax Foundation; Honorary Solicitor of the Mount Carmel Clinic Foundation Inc.; Member, Planned Giving Committee of the University of Manitoba; Chairman, Audit Committee of the Winnipeg Board of Jewish Education; Director-Jewish National Fund; Director-Jewish Child & Family Services; Founding Director and Honorary Solicitor of the Winnipeg Library Foundation Inc.; Lecturer in Taxation-Law Society of Manitoba Bar Admission Course, 1980-1985 and 1991-1992.

Lecturer
Certified General Accountants of Manitoba Public Practice Day, "Domestic Trust Tax Planning Strategies"; Meyers Norris Penny continuing education seminar, "RRSP's investing in small businesses"; Certified General Accountants of Manitoba Seminar, "The Proposed Civil Penalty Provisions for Tax Practitioners"; Law Society of Manitoba Seminar, "Retirement Compensation Arrangements, Employee Profit Sharing Plans and Health & Welfare Trusts"; Canadian Association of Family Enterprises, "Tax Planning for Succession"; Canadian Tax Foundation Annual Tax Conference, "Getting Dollars Out of Closely Held Businesses"; Reed Stenhouse Limited lunch hour seminars, "Tax Aspects of Insurance"; Canadian Tax Foundation, Prairie Provinces Tax Conference, "The Alternative Minimum Tax"; Equitable Life Insurance Company Annual Convention for Top Producers, "Tax Planning for the Life Insurance Representative"; Recreational Vehicle Dealers Association of Canada Annual Convention, "Tax Planning for the Small Businessman"; Estate Planning Council of Winnipeg, "Inter Vivos Trusts"; Law Society of Manitoba Seminar, "Tax Aspects of Litigation"; Manitoba Bar Association Mid Winter Bar Convention, "The Small Business Rules"; Suncorp Equities Inc. Seminar, "Canadians Investing in U.S. Real Estate"; University of Winnipeg Continuing Education Division, "Tax Planning for the Individual"; Law Society of Manitoba AM Continuing Legal Education Series, "Tax for the General Practitioner"; Manitoba Bar Mid Winter Convention, "The Recent Amendments"; The Toronto-Dominion Bank Manitoba and North West Ontario Region Managers' Convention, "Tax Planning for Bank Managers".

Awards
Chief Justice Robson Award, 1979; University Gold Medal, 1976; Alumni Scholarship, 1976; Dean's Honor List, Faculty of Administrative Studies, 1975 & 1976.