Our Team
Providing attentive, customer focused legal services throughout the Columbia Valley
Situated in the beautiful Columbia Valley, in the heart of the District of Invermere, BC, MacDonald & Company has been providing quality customer focused legal services for over 40 years.
MacDonald & Company’s practice is focused on all aspects of Real Estate Conveyance, Real Estate Development, Corporate/Commercial Law, as well as Estate and Estate Planning matters.
William J. MacDonald
Barrister & Solicitor, Notary Public, Lawyer
Bill MacDonald has practiced law in the Columbia Valley since moving to Invermere in 1977. With over 40 years of service, Bill has experience in real estate conveyancing, real estate development, business/corporate transactions, will, estates, and estate planning. Bill has many long-term clients.
Jonathan Sievenpiper, J.D., BSc. (M. Commerce)*
Barrister & Solicitor, Notary Public, Lawyer
Experience
Jonathan Sievenpiper, J.D., B.Sc. (M. Commerce) has over a decade in experience as a legal professional assisting clients with their legal needs. His experience is multifaceted, including in both areas of Solicitor’s work and Barrister’s work,. This breadth of experience provides him with the benefit of understanding legal matters from the point of view of both: performing practical transactions behind a desk; and, how legal issues will play out in the Courtroom.
Knowledge
Jonathan Sievenpiper, J.D., B.Sc. (M. Commerce) has a wide breadth of legal knowledge of many areas of the law. This gives him an edge up on the competition. He is often able to undertake legal matters touching on several areas of law, instead of clients having to hire separate lawyers for each area of practice.
Local Lawyer to Invermere and the Columbia Valley
Jonathan Sievenpiper, J.D., B.Sc. (M. Commerce) is a long-term resident of the Invermere area and the surrounding Columbia Valley. He has lived here with his family for over seven years. He has extensive local knowledge and knows who to contact in addition to himself for assisting clients with their legal and professional needs.
Affiliations & Memberships
Jonathan Sievenpiper, J.D., B.Sc. (M. Commerce) is an active member of the legal community in British Columbia. He is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia, the Canadian Bar Association – British Columbia Branch, Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia, and the Kootenay Bar Association (past KBA executive).
Sherry Burford
Legal Assistant
Sr. Conveyancer, Sub-divisions
Melanie Genest
Office Manager
Legal Assistance
SR. Conveyancer
Tessa Romaniuk
Legal Assistant
Conveyancer
Jill Pawlyshyn
Legal Assistant
Corporate
Karen Bergen
Administrative/Legal Assistant
Nadja Johnston
Legal Assistant
Estate Planning & Estates