 hi everybody welcome back to my youtube channel so in today's vlog i'm going to discuss about how you can become a lawyer in ontario what is the process small details about which not many people are aware and how can you read about it what all the material that you have to look into also because you know i get so many queries in bits and pieces and i wanted to gather this whole log and discuss about ontario as a province as a lawyer what is the process of converting and licensing yourself here what is the federal exam the nc is as you know and i've already made a vlog on the nc exams you can go check out and link is in the description box today i'm specifically going to talk about the small small rules and regulations that are with law society of ontario and what is the job scope how's the job market and what i personally have felt in this province so let's go check out and i am so sorry that i'm making this vlog after such a long time such a long time because as you know i have obviously we moved into a new space with ace law ace door thank you for all your blessings for ace law ace law is completely doing great and we moved into a new house as you can see the cartons are also not opened as of now so i'm just in the process of all of that but i still wanted to complete this vlog series and today ontario is the destination we are going to discuss yes first of all let's talk about ontario as a province ontario is located here and as you can see the population of ontario is comparatively very high when it comes to comparing it to other provinces of canada ontario as a population has is high because all the immigrants prefer that ontario come here bc settle in bc because of the weather and ontario because it is the financial capital of canada in fact north america it's got many opportunities for people of different backgrounds and since where people are there opportunities create themselves so this is one of the reasons that ontario is one of the chosen destination and that's why the law society has many uh kind of programs and many ways through which you can immigrate without having the difficulty of going to say other provinces in your some provinces as i discussed in albuta that you have to do 10 months of article compulsory here you have to do it here too but i'll tell you how you can waive that or what are the exemptions and how you can apply for that so all in all what we are going to see is why ontario is most preferred as i told you it's because of the financial capital and because of the opportunity this market can offer you secondly now we are going to discuss about the process of how you can become a lawyer in ontario so if you have done your law from any of the common law countries and you have studied the common law not the civil law if you've studied the common law then you are probably first giving the nca exams not probably of course you're giving the nca exams nca is the federal exam nca federal exams so i get a lot of queries in which people ask nca whether they need alice or not go to nca's website nca's all the details you will get there if i'm a link i'm sharing in the description box nca's step two is once you've cleared your nca and you've got your certificate of qualification even when you've not got your certificate of qualification it's a certificate of qualification nca's exams take three months so in between also what you can do is you can get licensing as a you can get registered as a licensee candidate with that particular law society where you want to go now for example where i had to come to el ontario so i got myself registered with the law society of ontario after giving my nca exams and after getting the result of passing in all so once that is done you get registered in registration i think around 175 dollars and if you're late it's probably 75 more so you don't have to be late for that particular year you try and be within that cycle because law society of ontario ki apki cycle utiye three saal ke li three years ke li aap ush main registered reto ush ke baad aapko renew grahniye pratiye so aap license aur aapko licensing process koshish kaneche us three years naap complete karlo so first apne lso ki website pe jaan hai jav main a link description box methiye after clearing your after clearing your flsc nca exams us ke baad aapne klik karna hai aur becoming a member then you have to see how internationally trained lawyers kele un ke pas kya kya unko kaisi lawyer bane hai to unne law society ki website pe diya hua hai so once you have done that click on becoming a member see the process now the process says that you have to do 10 months of articling you have to give the barista and you have to give the solicitor exam so once you click on the link that i have shared in the description box what you will reach is the lawyer licensing process for law society of Ontario aap sab se pelle jav aapne register kali hai then you are going to go through the application now there are two parts of this application part one has to be submitted online by you and part two all the documents requisite documents have to be mailed by you once you have submitted all your documents in your registration with them is complete you become a member and you get a licensing candidate number in fact you even get as a licensing candidate you have to do the mandatory components of that licensing process first is you have to give the barista so this can be in any order not necessarily you have to give first as barista solicitor and do the training but it can be in any order you can do the training first and you can give the bar exams later or vice versa so the mandatory components in in just our first you have to give the barista exam the barista material will be given to you by the law society it cost her the whole exam plus the material cost around 900 canadian dollars i believe so all of that and then it's an open book exam it used to be a seven-hour open book exam when i gave but now i've heard due to covid they've they have taken the whole platform online and it's now being conducted for usually around four hours and i think it's going to go like that till march 2021 i'm not sure of the whole of 2021 so the barista the solicitor these are open book exams but let me tell you guys these are like the grand viewer version of ncs ncs compared to bar exams are not at all difficult and bar exams are difficult they require extensive study extensive hold on material on the procedural part and on solicitor differently and on barista differently the approach is different in fact we can make one dedicated vlog on bar exams and how i prepared how i studied and how i cleared the bar exams thereafter you have to also simultaneously maybe i would not suggest simultaneously but maybe after your bar exams or before your bar exams go under a training either you can go for an articling which is by the way very difficult to get under some lawyer because here articling is usually booked around two three one or two people to do those all i've heard they book their articling uh in under some prestigious institutions here but once you and you need a you need to have a valid status of course let me tell you that you can't do that on a visitor you have to have a work permit or you have to be a permanent resident in canada to complete your articling secondly what you can do is you can take the law practice program so alternatively besides articling the rise in university in collaboration with law society of ontario offer the LPP which is the law practice program which is conducted in english it's a eight month program which used to be four months used to be in training and four months used to be your work component now i do not know about because of covid they might have taken the whole thing online i'm not sure but anyway they take four months of training in which four weeks you have to come in person four times in four months you have to come in person and they will take assignments they will give assignments they'll probably train you like an entry level lawyer and what you have to take in order to practice in the province of ontario so the law practice program helps you get that hands-on experience in which you might lack because articling positions are limited and students are more so that's a good option you can consider now people who have experience in legal field especially in kind of courts and litigation and all of that and have 10 months of experience they can apply for exemption the exemption procedure is also given on law society of ontario's website lso's website you can go check that out also if you want to if you are trying to seek exemptions there are certain things that are required and you can go fill in that and fulfill those details now people who must have in-house experience or have other related legal experience in the past can go for abridgement abridgement may maybe 10 months go for five months or six months they are going to shorten the the gap or the articling period and that's going to be very helpful if you you can now do any of but you have to do something either you have to do articling or you have to do lpp or you can seek exemption once you seek exemption you're also going to pay an amount of around 1000 for attending one training pcpo training in which there it's a four or five day training in which they will give you material and there'll be assignments with groups and you have to go and go to the law society right now it must be online but otherwise usually it's me it's in the lso's hall so once that all that is over and you have cleared your bar exams congratulations you're going to get a invite to the call to the bar ceremony and for the call to the bar ceremony it's going to make you feel very prestigious and very important privileged here in ontario they are going to give you their degree and your certificate and the it's like a proper jury which will sit and it's a it's a moment to celebrate so when all of that is done you become licensed to practice law in ontario so now that you have become a lawyer the important thing is the job market we are going to look into some data for doing that but right now let me tell you due to covid 40 percent it's it's in the job in the legal field that 40 percent have been cut off jobs have been cut off like that in house or either in either in house or working with law firms but that it has been very badly hit so let me discuss some of the pre-covid reports that i have with me and you're going to look look at it now the employment outlook will be fair for lawyers in cubic notries in ontario for the period of 2019 to 2021 the falling factors contributed to this outlook employment growth will lead to several new positions several positions will become available due to retirement there are small number of unemployed workers with recent experience in this occupation so usually what you are going to look at is that the unemployment rate is not that high but i have known people who have been unemployed even after clearing this exam and job market is actually very hard hit right now so this is not even a good time to judge the job market but in due course also it really depends on your internal references where you're getting placed and how are you performing and how is your articulating and the whole experience of see this is not a one thing one time application job that you're going to get this is a whole process you have to integrate with the process and only then can you be successful in this field so all these are very small small tips but i hope you these are useful for you guys and if there's any other thing that you want to know about ontario you can put in the comment section i'm going to try and reply to each one of them it's very it gets very difficult for me to reply on other platforms so i request that you can put here on youtube and i will try and answer all of that and relate it to this vlog so bye guys good night take care and i'll be back soon with a very interesting vlog i'm sure you guys will love it and just wait for it and take care bye bye