Meet the Team
Lui Carvello
As a planner and lawyer, having worked with developers both as a pre-law consultant and while at McCarthy Tetrault, and having worked in municipal and regional governments, Lui understands the challenges planners and administrators face, the goals they wish to achieve and the ultimate desire to implement them. He insists on doing so with the legal tools that are available and/or making you aware of the risks otherwise. Lui spent 6 1/2 years with a boutique municipal law firm, working with local governments across the Province, before establishing Carvello Law. He was the Chair of CBA’s BC Municipal Law section for a time and was elected to the Planning Institute of BC’s Board of Directors between 2013-2025), recently concluding his service as Chair of PIBC’s Professional Conduct Review Committee and Co-Chair of the Planning & Public Policy Committee. He also served on the Land Title and Survey Authority’s Legal Professional Advisory Committee for more than a decade, and taught graduate planning law at Vancouver Island University. He remains committed to promulgating the importance of planning law through CIP and PIBC Conferences, LGMA MATI(R) courses and his own “Carvello on…” professional development seminars and workshops.
Dana Goodfellow (Phoenix Law)
Dana has provided litigation services through her firm Phoenix Law Corporation working in collaboration with Carvello Law since 2011, and we are pleased she helps serve the needs of Carvello Law’s clients as well as those that engage her directly. Dana brings private practice experience in diverse areas of the law and as a prosecutor on behalf of the provincial and federal government. With respect to local government, Dana is a no-nonsense prosecutor/litigator and has worked on a variety of matters. She also addresses the bulk of our FOIPPA and conflict of interest opinions, privilege, confidentiality and trust matters, and Building Bylaw work. Dana practiced at Watson Goepel Maledy and Borden Ladner Gervais LLP for five years in the areas of corporate law, wills, estates and trusts as well as estate, environmental and securities litigation. Before moving to Victoria in late 2007, Dana was senior legal counsel with the British Columbia Securities Commission and prosecuted violations of the Securities Act. After moving to Victoria, Dana worked with the BC Civil Forfeiture Office in the prosecution of violations of the Civil Forfeiture Act, and as an agent for the Director of the Public Prosecution Service of Canada in the prosecution of offences under the Criminal Code. Since 2011, Dana has worked in the area of local government law.
Students of Planning and Law
Carvello Law also employs Registered Professional Planners, Students and those working towards their professional accreditation either in planning or law, including to provide cost effective research and initial drafting of planning and development documents under Lui’s supervision. We take pride in providing a springboard opportunity for young planning professionals and we recognize the responsibility to train them in our legal, professional and ethical systems.