Gail P. Black, K.C.

Gail Black’s tax-based private client services practice focuses on trusts and estate planning and administration including Wills, substitute decision-making, various trusts, charitable planning and probate matters.

As an active member of both the BC and Alberta Law Societies, she also advises on cross-provincial estate planning and administration matters. Working with US counsel, she assists clients on the tax-effective planning and administration of estates with US components including Canadian residents holding US assets, having US citizenship or having US based beneficiaries as well as US citizens/residents holding Canadian assets.

She provides consultation to other lawyers on estate and trust litigation matters.

Gail was appointed Queen’s Counsel (now King’s Counsel) in 2016. She is a long-time member of STEP (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners) and has been a Chair of STEP Calgary and a member of the board of STEP Canada. She is also a member of the Canadian Tax Foundation.

Gail has been listed in The Best Lawyers in Canada in Trusts and Estates from 2012 – 2025 and been named for several years in The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory in Estate and Personal Tax Law.