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Published September 29, 2025
As part of ongoing enhancements to the Legal Aid Online portal, Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) has created a new notification process to streamline updates regarding roster members’ status with the Law Society of Ontario (LSO). Roster members must maintain “In Private Practice” status with the LSO, in accordance with the Legal Aid Services Rules and the…
Published September 26, 2025
The ongoing Canada Post labour disruption is impacting Legal Aid Ontario’s (LAO’s) ability to send and receive mail. We will continue to process mail as we receive it, and we will resume sending physical mail once the service disruption is resolved. Please continue to submit documents electronically through the lawyer portal. If you need to…
Published September 10, 2025
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) values the work you do as a lawyer providing legal aid services to low-income Ontarians. As part of our commitment to supporting roster members, we are pleased to announce the launch of an updated version of the domestic violence awareness training program for roster lawyers providing legal aid certificate services in…
Published August 25, 2025
Legal Aid Online will be unavailable on Sunday Sept. 7, from 6 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. ET to archive and remove completed certificates from the portal. The work, originally scheduled for Saturday July 26, could not be completed due to technical issues. The archiving and removal of completed certificates is routine maintenance, and applies to concluded appeals and all cancelled,…
Published July 28, 2025
LAO makes further enhancements to duty counsel worksheet and Legal Aid Online LAO has made further updates to the duty counsel worksheet in Service Integration and Legal Aid Online to enhance the accuracy of information recorded and improve reporting of client services. Manual $0 entry now accepted You can now manually enter $0 in the…
Published July 24, 2025
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is pleased to invite you to an upcoming CPD session on Enhanced Pre-Sentencing Reports (EPSR) also known as Impact of Race and Culture Assessment (IRCA) reports. Date: Tuesday, August 12, 2025 Time: 4 – 5 p.m. (EST) This one-hour session will explore the structure, content, and evolving use of EPSRs/IRCAs in Ontario.…
Published July 21, 2025
Legal Aid Online will be unavailable on Saturday July 26, from 6 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. ET while we archive and remove completed certificates. This is routine maintenance and applies to concluded appeals and all cancelled, final billed or terminated certificates completed prior to June 1, 2019. Certificates that will not be closed include: Big…
Published June 16, 2025
We are pleased to announce the launch of Service Finder, a guided pathway self-triage tool available on the Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) website. Service Finder allows users to quickly and easily find legal services, locate nearby offices and access legal information and resources for their legal matter, at their convenience. This tool will assist you…
Published June 4, 2025
Legal Aid Online will be unavailable on June 14 to implement changes to Service Integration and the duty counsel worksheet. The billing portal will be down from 6:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. ET
Published May 21, 2025
Legal Aid Ontario (LAO) is refining Service Integration and aspects of the duty counsel worksheet in Legal Aid Online to enhance the accuracy of information recorded and improve reporting on client services. The changes, which will come into effect on June 14, include new fields and options to capture data such as: Income and asset…
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