Lorne's preferred areas of practice are

• corporate and commercial law
• real estate
• wills, estate planning and estate administration

"I am committed to providing my clients with prompt, timely service. I am thorough, while at the same time, I take a practical approach to meeting my client's needs and resolving legal problems."

Lorne was admitted to the Alberta Bar in 1976, and spent 20 years with the local firm of Virtue & Co. where he became a partner in 1982. In 1996 he became a founding partner of Torry Lewis Abells LLP. He has been a member of the Law Society of British Columbia since 1982. Lorne was appointed as Queen's Councel in 2006.

Lorne taught Business Law at the Lethbridge Community College for 21 years before retiring from that position in 1998.

Lorne is very active in the community. He is a former board member of the Rehabilitation Society of Alberta and of the Samaritans (a crisis line for the depressed and suicidal). He also served 2 terms on the University of Lethbridge Senate.

Lorne was appointed by the Minister of Community Development for the Province of Alberta to sit on the Southern Alberta Board for Persons with Developmental Disabilities. The vision of this board is to promote a community that honours and respects the dignity and equal worth of citizens with developmental disabilities.