Robert C. Doell
Barrister and Solicitor

Year called: 1969
Degree(s): UBC BA – 1965; UBC LLB – 1968; UBC Alumni

Bob is a founding partner of Stevenson Doell and has been with the firm since 1970. He has practiced in Victoria since 1970.

Preferred Areas of Practice:

• Plaintiffs’ claims in personal injury
• Divorce and property claims

Trial Experience: Bob has 39 years of trial experience at Provincial, Supreme and Appeal levels. As well, one of Bob’s cases is the authority on further evidence in the Supreme Court of Canada.

Bob is also an author and lecturer of papers with Continuing Legal Education on pension division in British Columbia.

Boards or Memberships:

• Member of the Trial Lawyers Association of BC and the BC Law Society
• President of the Victoria Golf Club, 1996 and 1997, 2006 to the present
• Former director and legal counsel for the Boy Scouts of Victoria
• Former Director of the Victoria Bar Association

Brent J. Kitzke
Barrister and Solicitor

Year called: 1979
Degree(s): UVIC B.A. Economics; UBC LLB

Brent has been practicing in Victoria with the firm since 1979.

Preferred Areas of Practice:

• Plaintiffs’ claims in personal injury
• Divorce and property claims
• Real estate and property conveyance

Trial Experience: Brent has 29 years of trial experience at Provincial, Supreme and Appeal levels.

Mary Susann McManus
Barrister and Solicitor

Year called: 1977
Degree(s): Dalhousie University B.A. ; Dalhousie University LLB

Mary has been with the firm since 1998 after she moved from Winnipeg, where she practiced from 1977 until 1997.

Preferred Areas of Practice:

• Collaborative Family Law, Divorce and property claims
• Real estate and property conveyances
• Wills and powers of attorney
• Plaintiffs’ Claims in Personal Injury

Trial Experience: Mary has 20 years of trial experience in Manitoba before the Court of Appeal and Queens Bench and 11 years of trial experience in British Columbia at the Provincial, Supreme and Appeal levels.

Charitable Work: Rotary Club of Victoria, Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada

Boards or Memberships:

• Past President of the Capital Region Chapter of the MS Society
• Past Board member of the BC Division Board of Directors of the MS Society
• Current Board Member of the Capital Region Chapter of the MS Society
• Rotary Club of Victoria
• Victoria Family Collaborative Law Group
• Business Networking International (Executive Chapter)

B. Mavis Ray
Barrister and Solicitor

Year called: 1980
Degree(s): Bachelor of Arts in Honours Philosophy from the University of British Columbia; Law Degree from the University of Victoria

Mavis articled with the Ministry of Attorney General of British Columbia and then with Marney Stevenson in 1980, after which time she was hired by the firm and has continued to practice at the firm since that time.

Preferred areas of practice:

• Divorce and property claims, including Collaborative Family Law
• Real estate and property conveyances
• Wills, Estates and Trusts
• Appeals

Trial Experience: Mavis has 28 years of experience at Provincial, Supreme and Appeal levels.

Charitable Work: Former board member for Victoria Single Parent Resource Centre

Boards or Memberships:

• Victoria Collaborative Family Law Group
• International Association of Collaborative Professionals