The Law Society of British Columbia says it has become aware of lawyers receiving extortion threats for “substantial sums of money.”
The legal profession regulator sent out a notice to its members that says lawyers have been targeted with threats to their physical safety and it urges victims to contact police.
Society spokeswoman Vinnie Yuen said in a statement that the reports received were confidential and the Law Society could not reveal the nature or number of threats to lawyers, but “at the moment the issue is not widespread.”
The notice was sent to Conservative member of the legislature Steve Kooner, the Opposition attorney general critic, who’s a lawyer and a member of the society….