About Gail
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.Her volunteer charitable activities have been devoted to children, health and the arts.
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.Her volunteer charitable activities have been devoted to children, health and the arts.
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.
