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Step 1

Get Your Canadian Undergraduate Pre-Law Major

Most Canadian law schools require that you have a bachelor’s degree, or have completed 90 credit hours (three years) towards a bachelor’s degree, prior to entering law school. Check the LSAC Official Guide to Canadian Law Schools for your chosen school’s admission policies regarding undergraduate education.

Accreditation

Because Canadian education is regulated on a provincial level, there are no national accreditation bodies for Canadian colleges and universities. Government organizations recognize certain colleges and universities within their jurisdiction. There are certain national associations that establish quality standards and regulate colleges and universities, including:

Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC)

Association of Commonwealth Universities

Degree Quality Assessment Board of British Columbia

Campus Alberta Quality Council

Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario

Manitoba-Saskatchewan Universities Program Review Audit Council

Maritime Provinces Higher Education Commission.

If your undergraduate institution is accredited by one of the above-mentioned organizations, you should be assured that Canadian law schools would accept your undergraduate education as valid.

Requirements and Standards

Again, each Canadian law school has its own requirements and standards regarding the undergraduate education you must complete before applying to law school. Most have credit requirements, while others may require certain courses to be taken. Check with your law school’s policies for more information.

Degree Options

A Bachelor of Arts (BA) or Bachelor of Science (BS) in any field (or acceptable work towards such a degree) is usually sufficient for entry into a Canadian law school. Check with the individual law school that you are interested in attending for its policies.

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Step 2

LSAT (Law School Admission Test) in Canada

You must pass the LSAT, or Law School Admission Test, before you will be accepted into any LSAC-member Canadian law school. This standardized entrance test is given four times annually.

How to prepare

You can access free study materials, such as practice tests and sample questions and answers, at the LSAT website. Other preparation material for the LSAT in Canada includes: LSAT Exam Prep Courses in Canada:

LSAT Prep Courses, Oxford Seminars, Locations Across Canada

LSAT Prep, Richardson Prep Center, Toronto

Free Sample LSAT Test, LSAT Center, online

Exam content

There are three key areas tested on the LSAT:

Reading Comprehension – Long, complex passages resembling information you will encounter in law school and in the law profession are presented. You must answer questions based upon your ability to understand, make inferences, and draw conclusions from these passages.

Analytical Reasoning– Your abilities to see relationships and draw conclusions are tested here.

Logical Reasoning– You must identify the strengths and weaknesses in given arguments in this section of the LSAT.

Although not scored as part of the LSAT, you must also produce a writing sample on a given topic. This will be sent to the law schools to which you apply for their review.

Application process

Applications for the LSAT are taken online. The LSAT is given on Wednesdays and Saturdays in February, June, October and December. Examination centers across Canada include:

Bow Valley College, Calgary

University of Calgary, Calgary

University of Alberta, Edmonton

Grande Prairie Regional College, Grande Prairie

Canadian University College, Lacombe

University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge

University College of Fraser Valley, Abbotsford

British Columbia Institute of Technology, Burnaby

Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops

Academy of Learning, Prince George

Ashton College, Vancouver

University of British Columbia, Vancouver

Camosun College, Victoria

University of Victoria, Victoria

Assiniboine Community College, Brandon

Brandon University, Brandon

University of Manitoba, Winnipeg

University of New Brunswick, Fredericton

Mount Allison University, Sackville

Memorial University of Newfoundland – Grenfell Campus, Corner Brook

Memorial University of Newfoundland, Saint John’s

Aurora College, Yellowknife

Xavier University, Antigonish

Dalhousie University, Halifax

University of Cape Breton, Sydney

Nunavut Arctic College, Cambridge Bay

Nunavut Arctic College, Iqaluit

Loyalist College, Belleview

Saint Lawrence College, Cornwall

McMaster University, Hamilton

KLC College, Kingston

Queen’s University, Kingston

Saint Lawrence College, Kingston

Fanshawe College, London

University of Western Ontario, London

Canadore College, North Bay

Carleton College, Ottawa

University of Ottawa, Ottawa

Trent University, Peterborough

Algoma University, Sault Ste Marie

Cambrian College, Sudbury

Laurentian University, Sudbury

Lakehead University, Thunder Bay

Humber College, Toronto

Queen’s Collegiate, Toronto

University of Toronto, Toronto

York University – Osgoode Hall Law School, Toronto

University of Waterloo-St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo

Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo

Niagara College, Welland

University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Windsor

University of Windsor, Windsor

University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown

McGill University, Montreal

University of Regina, Regina

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon

Yukon College, Whitehorse

Receiving Your Score

Your LSAT score, which will be between 120 and 180, will be mailed to you three weeks after the date of the exam.

Step 3

Go to Law School in Canada

The next step in the process of becoming a Canadian lawyer is to go to law school. View the LSAC Official Guide to Canadian Law Schools for application procedures for the law school in which you intend to apply for admission. There are two legal traditions in Canada: French civil law, dominant in Quebec; and English common law, dominant in all other provinces and territories. If you intend to practice law in Quebec, you must graduate from a Quebec law school. If you intend to practice in an English common law jurisdiction in Canada, you must graduate from one of the common-law schools in the other provinces/territories. Canada has mobility agreements among the provinces/territories that allow lawyers licensed in one common-law jurisdiction to practice in another common-law jurisdiction.

Application process

Ontario Law Schools

If you are applying to any law school in Ontario, you must apply online through Ontario Universities Application Centre. Instructions will be given on what is needed, such as undergraduate transcripts, letters of recommendation, community involvement, personal statement, and LSAT scores, when you apply.

Law Schools in Other Provinces

Each law school has its own admission policies and requirements. Check with your individual law school for its expectations.

Accreditation

The Law Society of Upper Canada

The Law Society of Upper Canada, which represents Ontario, requires that you graduate from a law school approved by Convocation in order for your law education to be provincially recognized. All schools listed under “Law Schools in Canada” below are approved by Convocation. Barreau du Québec

The Barreau du Quebec requires that you graduate from a French civil law school in order to become a licensed lawyer in Quebec. Approved law schools include:

Universite Laval, Quebec City, Quebec

University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Ottawa, Ontario

University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec

University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec

McGill University Faculty of Law, Montreal, Quebec

Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), Montreal, Quebec

All other law societies

Other provincial law societiesrequire that you graduate from a Canadian common-law university. All schools below except McGill University are common-law schools.

Law Schools in Canada

Law schools in Canada include:

University of Alberta Faculty of Law, Edmonton

University of Calgary Faculty of Law, Calgary

University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, Vancouver

University of Victoria Faculty of Law, Victoria

University of Manitoba Faculty of Law, Winnipeg

University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law, Fredericton

No law schools

Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law, Halifax

No law schools

Queen’s University Faculty of Law, Kingston

Western University, Canada, London

University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, Ottawa

University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Toronto

Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto

University of Windsor Faculty of Law, Windsor

No law schools

McGill University Faculty of Law, Montreal

University of Saskatchewan Faculty of Law, Saskatoon

No law schools

Online Law Degrees

View Online and Campus Law and Legal Studies Programs

(For students who choose to focus on a subset of law other than an attorney.)

Foreign law schools

If you attend a foreign law school and wish to become a Canadian lawyer, your education must be approved by the National Committee on Accreditation (NCA). You must submit your qualifications and experience in law to the NCA. The NCA will then determine what, if any, further coursework you must complete at an approved Canadian law school prior to licensure as a lawyer in your province. You may also be asked to complete examinations in order to qualify for licensure. If you qualify, you will be issued a Certificate of Qualification, which you may use to seek entry to your province’s law society.

Degree Programs

You must complete a Bachelor of Laws (L.L.B.) program or Juris Doctor (J.D.) program in order to qualify for bar membership in any Canadian province or territory. This generally takes three years to complete.

Step 4

Complete Your Province’s Bar Admission Course and Articling

The next step in becoming a Canadian lawyer in all provinces is to complete your province’s Bar Admission Course. This differs a bit from one province to the next, as you will see below.

Ontario (Law Society of Upper Canada)

Ontario’s Bar Admissions Course consists of online self-study in the following subjects: Real Estate, Wills and Estates, Business Law, Professional Responsibility, Family Law, Criminal Law, Civil law, and Constitutional Law. You must then pass two major licensing exams covering these subjects – both self-study and open book. One is the Barrister Examination and the other is the Solicitors Examination. Each exam takes about seven hours to complete.

After finishing this step, you must complete a 10-month Articleship. During this time, you will work for a principal (licensed lawyer) who must approve of your work. You will be assessed midterm, at which time your principal must report your progress to the Law Society of Upper Canada. You must also complete an online Professional Responsibility and Practice Course during your articling period.

Once you have completed all of these steps, you will be called to the Bar, conferred with the degree of Barrister-at-Law, and sworn in and enrolled as a Solicitor of the Court of Appeal and the Superior Court of Justice of Ontario.

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