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In the lead-up to Canada’s largest Pride Parade, Ontario lawyers are showing that their profession is a diverse, open and welcoming one.

The Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General has announced that civil claims online filing has expanded, again, and will now permit filing additional documents including defences.

In the lead-up to the 2018 Ontario Election, the OBA has created “mOBAlize the vote,” a members-only area of its website, designed to connect OBA members with key features of the 2018 Ontario Election.

Ontario lawyers celebrate the profession’s response to the 2017 U.S. travel bans

The OBA has been advised by the Attorney General that the Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on their Recognition, done at The Hague on July 1, 1985 (the Hague Trust Convention), and set out in Schedule 1 to the International Recognition of Trusts Act, 2017 will come into force on May 1, 2018

Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General recently announced an $86 million investment in legal aid services. It includes $17.2M for community legal clinics and student legal aid services societies.

The OBA’s Trusts & Estates Law Section is pleased to announce Margaret Rintoul as the recipient of its 2018 OBA Award of Excellence in Trusts and Estates Law.

OBA Members are lawyers who know the value of volunteerism. As the largest voluntary legal organization in the province, OBA members make significant contributions to the profession every day, and this month, they are volunteering to help thousands of Ontarians get free legal advice for their civil legal needs.

After an extensive search process, The Ontario Bar Association (OBA) is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Hall is returning to the OBA, taking over the executive director position held by Steve Pengelly who announced his retirement in the fall of 2017 after more than a decade in service to the Association.

The Canadian Bar Association has appointed long-time OBA member and committed volunteer Vivene Salmon as the new CBA Vice-President for the 2018-2019 term.