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41101.00 – Lawyers and Quebec notaries

Lawyers and Quebec notaries advise clients on legal matters, represent clients before administration boards and draw up legal documents such as contracts and wills. Lawyers also plead cases, represent clients before tribunals and conduct prosecutions in courts of law. Articling students are included in this unit group.

Overview

Example job titles

  • Barrister
  • Corporate counsel
  • Crown attorney
  • Law partner
  • Lawyer
  • Legal advisor
  • Legal counsel
  • Legislative counsel
  • Notary (Quebec)
  • Prosecutor
  • Solicitor

Core competencies

  • Critical Thinking to research legal precedents to develop case arguments for clients
  • Negotiating and Persuading to negotiate settlements of civil disputes and apply principles of the law to convince juries and judges of their clients' perspectives
  • Problem Identification and Deductive Reasoning to accurately identify the problem presented by a client to provide legal advice and determine the most effective way to argue the case
  • Verbal Ability and Speech Clarity to plead clients' cases before courts of law, tribunals and boards and explain complex legal terminology and cases to clients
  • Attention to Detail to ensure compliance with standards to avoid errors that could jeopardize a case or legal process
  • Knowledge in Law to understand legal principles and precedents set to strategize how to best represent the legal case of their client

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

  • Advise clients of their legal rights and all matters related to law
  • Research legal precedents and gather evidence
  • Plead clients' cases before courts of law, tribunals and boards (lawyers only)
  • Draw up legal documents such as real estate transactions, wills, divorces and contracts, and prepare statements of legal opinions
  • Negotiate settlements of civil disputes (lawyers only)
  • Perform administrative and management functions related to the practice of law
  • May act as mediator, conciliator or arbitrator
  • May act as executor, trustee or guardian in estate and family law matters.

Additional information

  • Lawyers wishing to practise in another province or territory are required to pass examinations set by the provincial or territorial law society, except in New Brunswick and Saskatchewan where the National Mobility Agreement (2013) was implemented.
  • Lawyers and Quebec notaries may specialize in specific areas of the law such as criminal law (lawyers only), corporate law, contract law, taxation law, administrative law, international law, commercial law, real estate law, family and estate law, intellectual property law and labour law.

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NOC hierarchy breakdown

NOC version

NOC 2021 Version 1.0

Broad occupational category

4 – Occupations in education, law and social, community and government services

TEER

1 – Occupations usually require a university degree

Major group

41 – Professional occupations in law, education, social, community and government services

Sub-major group

411 – Professional occupations in law

Minor group

4110 – Judges, lawyers and Quebec notaries

Unit group

41101 – Lawyers and Quebec notaries

Occupational profile

41101.00 – Lawyers and Quebec notaries

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