Resources tailored for your practice and success

Help your business or organization create a more just and equitable future with guidance on human rights issues.

Business and Human Rights Guide

Discover best practices to conduct an internal investigation into allegations of bribery, corruption and other white-collar crimes.

Guide for Internal Investigations of White-Collar Crime

Access guidance, resources and best practices on the financial aspects of retainers and fees for private practice lawyers.

View Retainers and Fees Toolkit

Get advice on regulating lobbying activities and creating a lobbyist registry to enhance accountability, transparency and public confidence in government decisions.

So You Want to Create a Municipal Lobbyist Registry

Get to know the rules, regulations and ethics of advertising in the legal profession and how they apply to different types of ads.

View Ethics of Advertising Toolkit

Create a better, more inclusive future with help from resources to become a better ally, engage with Indigenous advisors, recruit and retain Indigenous talent, and more.

Truth and Reconciliation Toolkit for Firms

Assessing Ethical Infrastructure in Your Law Firm: A Practical Guide
Get practical guidance on law firm structures, policies and procedures. Find out how to ensure you fulfill your ethical duties to clients, third parties and the public.

Conflicts of Interest Toolkit
Discover how to recognize, deal with and avoid conflicting interests across different practice contexts. The toolkit includes practical checklists and precedents to use and adapt for your practice.

Ethics and Professional Responsibility Tools
Access professional practice tools to help address your ethical and professional responsibilities. Tools cover issues such as codes of professional conduct, solicitor-client privilege, anti-corruption and more.

Legal Ethics in a Digital Context
Learn how to use technology responsibly and ethically in your practice. Find out how technology can serve as a great tool to provide legal services.

A Guide to Strategy for Lawyers
Get clear step-by-step instructions on how to take a strategic approach to planning your firm’s future. The guide also includes directions for solo practitioners and in-house counsel.

CBA Law Office Sustainability Challenge

Improve the environmental performance of your law firm with information and guidance from this important CBA initiative.

CBA Partnership Toolkit
Learn how to make partner. This toolkit for early career lawyers brings together the best resources to help you achieve your goal.

How to Innovate: Futures for Small and Solo Law Firms
Be innovative with your practice. Improve service, efficiency, profitability and accessibility with guidance that will help you remain viable and prosperous in the future legal market.

Measuring Diversity in Law Firms
Access guidance that will help your firm measure your diversity performance, including strategies and steps.

Pandemics and the Workplace: A Resource for Lawyers
Prepare your clients for a pandemic. Advise them about pandemic plans, vaccination requirements, work refusals, forced absences and more during a pandemic.

Promoting Preventive Legal Health
The toolkit helps lawyers support their clients with preventive lawyering skills. A little preventive legal health can keep small legal issues from growing into huge legal problems.

Business Law

Joint Policy Statement on Audit Inquiries
Learn about communication between lawyers and auditors. Understand the roles of the lawyer, the client and the auditor in preparing a client’s financial statements.

Competition Law

Fundamentals of Canadian Competition Law launch
Learn about Canadian competition law and get insight into complex issues, including criminal conspiracy, mergers, exclusive dealing, misleading advertising and marketing practices, and more.

Criminal Law

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Convictions launch
Get advice on how to describe the full range of potential consequences of a criminal conviction for your client right to the judge at sentencing. Understand the implications and be fully prepared.

Family Law

CBA Tax Matters Toolkit
Learn how tax rules might affect a couple’s future finances on separation or divorce. Get information on credits, benefits and deductions.

Child Rights Toolkit
Learn how to implement a child rights-based approach in your practice and strengthen your advocacy for children.

Successfully Parenting Apart launch
Tap into some of the best resources on co-parenting after separation or divorce. The toolkit helps lawyers better assist parents at this difficult time.

Immigration Law

Asylum Seekers Toolkit
Get guidance on Canadian refugee law and procedures. This toolkit is for lawyers, resettlement agencies and asylum seekers entering from the U.S.

Border Alert!
Access everything you need to know as a lawyer travelling to the U.S. Learn about the risk of disclosing confidential information and loss of privilege covering communications with clients.

Immigration Lawyer’s Guide to CETA Mobility Provisions
Navigate the framework set out in CETA to facilitate cross-border travel or relocation for key categories of businesspersons.

Real Estate Law

Mortgage Instructions Toolkit
Be prepared to respond to lender instruction requests with this practical resource for residential real estate lawyers in Canada.

Real Property Comparison Tables
Learn about the legislation governing the registration system, title search period, standard agreement of purchase and sale, search of title and more.

Young Lawyers and Law Students

Do Law Differently: Futures for Young Lawyers launch
Learn about the skills and competencies future lawyers will need to make the most of opportunities ahead.

Learning Law in Place
Access this experiential learning guide for law students to discover more about access to justice. Apply your knowledge in practical exercises.