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4112 – 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. Lawyers are employed in law firms and prosecutor's offices. Quebec notaries are employed in notary offices. Both lawyers and Quebec notaries are employed by federal, provincial and municipal governments and various business establishments or they may be self-employed. Articling students are included in this group.
Profile
Index of titles Example job titles
- Administrative lawyer
- Adviser, law and corporate affairs
- Advisory counsel
- Advocate, legal
- Articling student - law
- Assistant corporate counsel
- Assistant Crown attorney
- Assistant general solicitor
- Assistant legal advisor
- Assistant regional counsel
- Associate counsel
- Associate lawyer
- Associate legal advisor
- Associate legal counsel
- Attorney
- Attorney-at-law
- Attorney's assistant chief agent
- Barrister
- Barrister and solicitor
- City attorney
- City solicitor
- Civil lawyer
- Claim attorney
- Commercial law notary
- Commercial lawyer
- Contract counsel
- Corporate counsel
- Corporate notary (Quebec)
- Corporation lawyer
- Counsel
- Counsellor-at-law
- Counsellor-lawyer
- County attorney
- Criminal lawyer
- Crown attorney
- Crown corporation counsel
- Crown counsel
- Crown prosecutor
- Defence counsel
- Departmental solicitor
- Deputy city solicitor
- Family and estates lawyer
- General counsel
- General solicitor
- Immigration lawyer
- In-house legal counsel
- Industrial lawyer
- Insurance lawyer
- Intellectual-property lawyer
- Labour lawyer
- Law and corporate affairs adviser
- Law partner
- Lawyer
- Lawyer, legal aid
- Lawyer, military
- Legal advisor
- Legal aid lawyer
- Legal attaché
- Legal counsel
- Legal officer
- Legislative adviser
- Legislative counsel
- Litigator
- Military lawyer
- Municipal solicitor
- Notary (Quebec)
- Notary, Quebec
- Patent counsel
- Patent lawyer
- Patent solicitor
- Prosecuting attorney
- Prosecutor
- Quebec notary
- Queen's Counsel
- Real estate lawyer
- Regional attorney
- Regional Crown prosecutor
- Review lawyer
- Solicitor
- Special prosecutor
- Staff counsel
- Staff lawyer
- Staff solicitor
- Tariff counsel
- Tax attorney
- Tax lawyer
- Title lawyer
- Trademark lawyer
- Attorney
- Barrister
- Corporate counsel
- Crown attorney
- Crown prosecutor
- General counsel
- Law partner
- Lawyer
- Legal advisor
- Notary (Quebec)
- Solicitor
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
Lawyers and Quebec notaries perform 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.
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.
Employment requirements
Lawyers
- Two to three years of undergraduate studies or, in Quebec, completion of college program and A bachelor's degree from a recognized law school and Successful completion of the bar examination and completion of a period of articling are required.
- Licensing by the provincial or territorial law society is required.
Notaries (Quebec)
- A bachelor's degree from a recognized law school and a Diploma of Notarial Law (D.D.N.) or A master's degree of law with specialization in notarial law and A 32-week vocational training program are required.
- Registration with the Corporation of Notaries is required.
Additional information
- Lawyers wishing to practise in another province may be required to pass examinations set by the provincial law society.
Exclusions
- Legal department directors (in 0114 Other Administrative Services Managers)
- Legal firm managers (in 0123 Other Business Services Managers)
- Notaries public and trademark agents who are not lawyers (in 4211 Paralegal and Related Occupations)
- Patent agents who are not lawyers or Quebec notaries (in 4161 Natural and Applied Science Policy Researchers, Consultants and Program Officers)
Breakdown summary
- Broad occupational category
- 4 – Occupations in Social Science, Education, Government Service and Religion
- Skill level
- A – Occupations usually require university education.
- Major group
- 41 – Professional Occupations in Social Science, Education, Government Services and Religion
- Minor group
- 411 – Judges, Lawyers and Quebec Notaries
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- NOC 2006 Version 1.0