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In addition to the firm law library, the
lawyers are members of the Waterloo Law Association and has access to the
extensive literature collection (both electronic and paper) contained in the
Association Library. The library has 2 experienced full time librarians,
Catherine Malvern and Wanda Haayen who also have access to the collections of
all 47 County & District law libraries in Ontario, including The Great
Library at Osgoode Hall, arguably the most up to date law library in Ontario
(save and except the library in Ottawa at the Supreme Court of Canada).
The firm also has direct access to the E-Carswell
and QuickLaw, an extensive on-line case law databases, making accessible to
the lawyers case law from all Canadian jurisdictions, as well as electronic
databases in the United States.
In addition, we also have access to the Ontario and Federal
government websites, such as the Ontario Attorney General’s
consolidated statute and regulation website and the numerous Federal and
Provincial websites providing information on recent court decisions,
statutory and regulatory law.
The lawyers regularly attend continuing legal
education seminars and courses, particularly those provided by the Law
Society of Upper Canada and the Canadian Bar Association. Mr. Melville is
regularly asked to provide lectures to lawyers on advocacy techniques and to
the lay public on the law. The
firm clerks are fully trained, having completed legal clerk courses and
programs at local colleges.
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