Legal Resources
Rosen and Company believes the following websites may be of assistance:
The Advocates' Society
The Advocates' Society has evolved into a diverse, accomplished professional association of over 3000 members that is recognized throughout the legal profession for its success in advocacy education and legal reform.
http://www.advocates.ca/index.html
American Bar Association
The American Bar Association is the largest voluntary professional association in the world. With more than 400,000 members, the ABA provides law school accreditation, continuing legal education, information about the law, programs to assist lawyers and judges in their work, and initiatives to improve the legal system for the public.
http://www.abanet.org/
Canadian Bar Association
The CBA is a professional, voluntary organization representing lawyers, judges, notaries, law teachers, and law students from across Canada.
http://www.cba.org/CBA/Gate.asp
Canadian Legal Information Institute
The Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII) is a not-for-profit organization initiated by the Federation of Law Societies of Canada. CanLII's goal is to make primary sources of Canadian law accessible for free on the Internet.
http://www.canlii.org/index_en.html
Criminal Lawyers' Association
The Ontario Criminal Lawyers' Association is one of the largest specialty legal organizations in Canada, comprising about 1,000 members, including associate members from across Canada.
http://www.criminallawyers.ca/
Department of Justice Canada
The Department of Justice strives to achieve its policy objectives through various means, including a number of ongoing and new program initiatives designed to provide a fair, effective, efficient and accessible justice system.
http://canada.justice.gc.ca/
Hamilton Law Association
The Hamilton Law Association continues to strive to educate and support its membership in the practice of law as well as to advocate for their interests as lawyers.
http://www.hamiltonlaw.on.ca/
Law Society of Upper Canada
The Law Society of Upper Canada is the governing body for lawyers in Ontario. It governs the legal profession in the public interest for the purpose of advancing the cause of justice and the rule of law.
http://www.lsuc.on.ca/
Legal Aid Ontario
Legal Aid is available to low income individuals and disadvantaged communities for a variety of legal problems, including criminal matters, family disputes, immigration and refugee hearings and poverty law issues such as landlord/tenant disputes, disability support and family benefits payments.
http://www.legalaid.on.ca/en/default.asp
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers
The National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) is the preeminent organization in the United States advancing the mission of the nation's criminal defense lawyers to ensure justice and due process for persons accused of crime or other misconduct.
http://www.nacdl.org/public.nsf/freeform/publicwelcome?opendocument
Ontario Bar Association
The Ontario Bar Association is a branch of the Canadian Bar Association, an organization of lawyers formed to provide support by the profession to the profession so that it may render better service to its members and the public.
http://www.oba.org/
Osgoode Hall School
Osgoode's mission is to contribute to new knowledge about the law and the legal system by being a centre for thoughtful and creative legal scholarship, to provide an outstanding professional and liberal education to our students so that they can assume positions of leadership in the legal profession, among legal academics and in all aspects of public life, and to serve Canadian society and the world in ways that further social justice.
http://www.osgoode.yorku.ca/
Supreme Court of Canada
The Supreme Court of Canada is Canada's highest court. It is the final general court of appeal, the last judicial resort for all litigants, whether individuals or governments
http://www.scc-csc.gc.ca/
Toronto Lawyers Association
The Toronto Lawyers Association (TLA) provides important services for lawyers in the Toronto area.
http://www.tlaonline.ca/
University of Toronto – Faculty of Law
Today, it is one of the world's great law schools, a dynamic academic and social community with 57 full-time faculty members and 25 distinguished short-term visiting professors from the world's leading law schools, as well as 500 undergraduate and graduate students.
http://www.law.utoronto.ca/