Denise M. Hendrix
Biography
Ms. Hendrix was born in Calgary, Alberta
Ms. Hendrix graduated from St. Francis High School in 1984 and received her Bachelor of Education Degree at the University of Calgary in 1988.
Ms. Hendrix received her Bachelor of Laws Degree at the University of Calgary in 1991 and was admitted to the Law Society of Alberta in 1992.
Ms. Hendrix completed her articles with the law firm of Davidson & Williams in Lethbridge, Alberta and joined the firm as an associate lawyer thereafter. In 1993, Ms. Hendrix returned to Calgary and joined the firm of Fleming Kambeitz where she practiced until 1996. Ms. Hendrix joined the firm of Vickers & Associates as an Associate in 1996. Ms. Hendrix joined as a partner in the firm which became Vickers Hendrix LLP in 2009. The firm became Hendrix Law in 2014.
Ms. Hendrix is currently a mentor for practising lawyers in the area of Foreclosure and Real Estate Law. Ms. Hendrix has lectured for Appraisal Institute of Canada members in Calgary, has lectured and developed materials for various Legal Education Society of Alberta seminars, taught and lectured to articling students in Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education courses. Ms. Hendrix lectures regularly before various lending institutions and has provided lectures and seminars to the Calgary Real Estate Board, the Alberta Mortgage Brokerage Association and the Alberta Mortgage Loans Association and the Appraisal Institutute. Ms. Hendrix lectured at Mount Royal College (now Mount Royal University) for over 10 years in the legal sections of the Mortgage Brokerage course which is mandatory for all Alberta Mortgage Brokers. Ms. Hendrix has been interviewed and quoted in various articles on foreclosures and real estate over the past 25 years.
Ms. Hendrix is a member in good standing of the Calgary Bar Association, Canadian Bar Association and the Law Society of Alberta, the Law Society of the Northwest Territories and the Law Society of Nunavut.
Ms. Hendrix has established over the years, various scholarships for the development of junior high and high school students to honour life balance, athletic and academic achievement in Calgary, Alberta.
Ms. Hendrix is the past chair of the South Alberta Canadian Bar Association Foreclosure Subsection and has been a member of the Executive of the Subsection for the past 20 years. Ms. Hendrix is a past member of the Alberta Builders Association and a current member of the Alberta Mortgage Brokers Association, the Canadian Association of Accredited Mortgage Professionals, the Alberta Mortgage Loans Association and the Canadian Condominium Institute.
Ms. Hendrix is active in the development of the foreclosure practise in Alberta and has worked with the Alberta Bar and closely with the Masters in Chambers on the development of precedents, fee guidelines, practise and procedures for foreclosure lawyers over the past 20 years. Recently, we achieved a huge leap towards consistency and efficiency with the court clerks in having an approved fee and disbursement tairiff in place. With the help of one other lawyer, we spent hundreds of hours working together with the Masters in Chambers to establish fair, equitable and best practises with respect to fee consistency and expectations on taxed foreclosure files. I pride myself on being a mentor and a teacher within the industry. We have helped numerous lending organizations develop mortgage terms, forms, requirements and standard mortgage terms. We have assisted our clients in development of practise requirements for underwriting, review of funding requests and instructing default processes.
Ms. Hendrix has been recognized for her work on the executive and as the Chair of the South Alberta Canadian Bar Association Foreclosure subsection, as an instructor for over 10 years at Mount Royal University, for her various fund raising efforts and support of the Calgary Catholic School District, in fund raising efforts for Autism Awareness, Breast Cancer, CIBC Run for the Cure, The Tom Tremouth Charity Golf Tournament, The Sky is my Limit program bringing fresh water to villages in Africa, the Canadian Red Cross and the Heart & Stroke Foundation, in fundraising and supporting various hockey teams, the Canadian National Broomball team and as an Instructor and Presenter for the Alberta Mortgage Brokers Association (winning the 2017 Partner Award).
Ms. Hendrix practice is primarily limited to the areas of litigation, commercial and residential real estate and foreclosures for National Banks, Trust Companies, Mortgage Investment Corporations and Private Lenders. We have worked extensively on FCT Default Solutions platform for CIBC Bank, on Bridgwater Bank’s platform we use the National Recovery System and for Manulife Bank we us the Prospect file’s platforms.
Hendrix Law has also built their own internal foreclosure management system that their clients can log into and see at a moment the status of any one of their files, the documents associated with that file, all communications and when the next steps are to take place. This program also assists us in the ability to have every single active file in their office at their fingertips which helps them with their efficiency and team approach to the handling of files.
