President - Tom Fellhauer 

VP & Secretary- Rob Davis

Treasurer - Jonathon Arkle

Past President - Julia Chalkley

Julia Chalkley

Julia practices exclusively in the area of family law.

Julia earned her Bachelor of Laws degree with distinction, from the University of Ottawa. During law school, Julia was an active member of the Women’s Legal Mentorship Program, and completed various internships in environmental and disability law. She also holds a Psychology Specialist degree with distinction, from the University of Toronto.

Julia was called to the Bar in 2018 and has appeared as counsel in both the Provincial Court and Supreme Court of British Columbia.

Tom Fellhauer, QC

Tom is a partner with Pushor Mitchell LLP who serves a wide range of clients in the areas of income tax appeals, tax and estate planning, wealth management, trusts, incorporations, corporate reorganizations, and charities law and family foundations.

For over 30 years, Tom has been helping business owners, professionals, and high income and high net worth individuals to create tailored solutions to avoid tax problems and minimize taxes, drawing upon both his extensive experience in tax planning and conducting income tax and GST appeals and his numerous dealings over many years with the Canada Revenue Agency.

Tom also advises family-owned businesses on matters relating to business succession, corporate reorganizations, trust planning, and tax minimization strategies, helping clients to protect their assets and to create tax planning strategies for the future. Tom also assists high income and high net worth individuals with tax-planned wills and alter ego and joint spousal trusts and advises clients with charitable giving.  He has established many non-profit societies, registered charities and private foundations.

Tom has both a law degree from UBC and a Business Administration degree from Simon Fraser University.  He has also completed the three-year In-Depth Tax Program from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA), as well as the Advanced CICA Corporate Reorganizations Course, the Wealth Preservation Course and the International Tax Course. He has authored numerous chapters and articles on tax, estate planning and company law and is a frequent presenter and seminar leader on topics relating to tax, trusts, estate planning and ethics.

Rob Davis

Rob is a litigator with Petraroia Langford LLP.

He has a broad range of experience resolving commercial, construction, intellectual property and insurance disputes involving litigation and arbitration proceedings, mediations, and pre-proceeding disputes.

Rob has appeared before the Supreme Court of British Columbia and the Provincial Court of British Columbia, and has assisted on matters before the Federal Court of Canada.

Prior to joining Farris, Rob was in-house litigation counsel for Avigilon Corporation, a Motorola Solutions company, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he oversaw Avigilon’s offensive and defensive litigation, primarily patent litigation in the United States District Court.

Shaped by his role as in-house litigation counsel, Rob brings a pragmatic, business-focused approach to the resolution of legal disputes.

Prior to his time at Avigilon, Rob articled with and spent the first four years of his practice as a litigation associate at a leading national firm.

Jonathon Arkle

John practices primarily in employment and business law.  He is a long-standing associate with Doak Shirreff Lawyers LLP in Kelowna.