SOME EXAMPLES OF PROJECTS COMPLETED BY OUR FLEX LAWYERS:
- COURT APPEARANCES:
- Filling a gap for a small business law firm that needed a litigator to argue a motion (for a declaration regarding the ownership of a parking spot in a condominium building)
- Providing back-up help as second chair for a sole practitioner for an appeal
- Arguing a motion for substituted service for a lawyer that was double-booked for court
- LEGAL RESEARCH & DRAFTING:
- Flex Lawyers have supported several firms during a surge in workload and have assisted with:
- drafting statements of claim, defences, affidavits and facta in several areas of law (e.g. an action for an improvident sale, a product liability claim, a shareholder dispute, summary judgement motion, mortgage enforcement, etc.)
- researching and drafting memoranda (in all areas - family, construction, estates, environmental contamination, health law etc.)
- Flex Lawyers have supported several firms during a surge in workload and have assisted with:
- DOCUMENT REVIEW:
- Enabled a client to meet a tight deadline by reviewing and compiling an affidavit of documents for a large litigation file
- Reviewing and providing summary of crown disclosure on a criminal fille
- CORPORATE CONTRACT DRAFTING & REVIEW:
- Drafting terms & conditions and a privacy policy for a corporation’s website
- Drafting several contracts for a large trucking corporation
- Reviewing several contracts for a corporation when its in-house legal department was short-staffed
- LEGAL OPINIONS:
- Drafting an opinion for a foreign lawyer on the interpretation of a forum selection clause
- Conducting a file review and providing an opinion on a complicated family trust matter
- LEGAL CONTENT MARKETING:
- Flex Lawyers also look after the necessary (but tedious) non-billable aspects of a legal practice, including researching & drafting conference papers; ghostwriting or editing firms’ blog posts or client newsletters; writing and revising a firms’ website content for each practice area; lawyer's bios, etc.
