A Call to Rebellion for Ontario Legal Professionals

Ontario lawyers/paralegals: Indicate your objection to the Law Society demands (confidentiality ensured) at Please forward this video URL to your colleagues. Concerned non-lawyers, please contact the Law Society at: lawsociety@ (It can be difficult for individual lawyers to stand up against such unwarranted intrusion singly. In consequence, we established the website to generate an estimate of the degree of dissatisfaction and resistance. The number of signatories will be made public, on that same website, within the first week--and updated regularly--but no personally identifying details will be released. ) Summary: Recently, the Law Society of Upper Canada (Ontario) has made major revisions to their requirements for the annual submission for legal practitioners in that province. As part of a five-part strategic program known as “Accelerating Culture Shift,” all lawyers are now required to write, submit and abide by a “Statement of Principles.&q