Lawyers and Notaries
Job description
These individuals provide legal advice to their clients and draft legal documents. More specifically, they plead cases, represent clients and prosecute cases in court. They also draft legislative bills, regulations, and decrees. This group includes articling law students. Lawyers work in all areas of government law as advisors, drafters, and litigators.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Inform their clients of their rights and any legal issues.
- Research previous judgments (case law) and gather evidence.
- Plead their clients’ cases before courts and commissions (lawyers only).
- Negotiate settlements in civil litigation (lawyers only).
- Draft legal documents (notices, real estate transaction contracts, wills, divorce petitions, etc.).
- Act as mediator, conciliator, arbitrator, liquidator, trustee, or guardian, as required.
- Act before the courts as plaintiff or defendant in civil and criminal matters.
- Act as a public officer (notaries only).
- Negotiate agreements in criminal and penal matters.
Advancement and mobility
- Provincially sanctioned Bar exams enable lawyers to practise in another province.
- Foreign-trained candidates to the profession can benefit from the Regulation respecting the standards for equivalence of diplomas and training of the Barreau du Québec (Quebec Bar).
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $29.81
- Median
- $52.88
- Maximum
- $85.16
Job prospects for 2024-2028
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Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
Very good
All of Québec
Non available
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
27,000
All of Québec
na
Gender distribution
All of Québec
Not available.
- 56.7% Female
- 43.3% Male
Not available.
- 56.7% Female
- 43.3% Male
Job types
All of Québec
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Not available.
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
$105,000
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- None
All of Québec
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 5411, 541266% of jobs
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NAICS 9115% of jobs
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NAICS 813% of jobs
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NAICS 521, 522, 523, 5262% of jobs
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NAICS 5242% of jobs
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Others12% of jobs
All of Québec
Not available.
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NAICS 5411, 541266% of jobs
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NAICS 9115% of jobs
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NAICS 813% of jobs
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NAICS 521, 522, 523, 5262% of jobs
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NAICS 5242% of jobs
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Others12% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
University
Law
Bachelor’s degree
Placement rate: 62.5%
32% of graduates pursue further studies
Master’s degree
Placement rate: 87.8%
9.4% of graduates pursue further studies
This discipline is taught in the following institutions:
Also required
Lawyers
- Licence to practise.
- Registration at the Barreau du Québec.
- Successful completion of the professional training program of the École du Barreau.
Notaries
- Registration at the Chamber of Notaries.
- Successful completion of the professional training program of the Chambre des notaires du Québec.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Active listening
- Oral expression
- Reading comprehension
- Critical thought
- Information processing
- Judgment and decision-making
- Solving complex problems
- Written expression
- Negotiation
- Persuasion
- Active learning
- Time management
- Social perception
- Result evaluation
- System analysis
- Coordination
- Teaching
- Service oriented
- Systems evaluation
- Learning strategies
Abilities
- Verbal skills
- Written comprehension
- Oral comprehension
- Speech clarity
- Written expression
- Deductive reasoning
- Inductive reasoning
- Awareness of issues
- Information organization
- Near vision
- Classification
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Selective attention
- Speech recognition
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Capacity to work under pressure
- Critical thinking
- Autonomy
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to adapt
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Capacity to work in a team
- Rigour
- Capacity to be discrete
- Capacity for synthesis
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Watch, defend, and secure
- Work in an office
- Self-employment
- Assist and advise
- Collect, verify, sort, and classify data or information
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
Official name of the NOC 41101
Lawyers and Quebec notaries
Job titles
- Law partner
- Legal attaché
- Assistant corporate counsel
- Associate lawyer
- Advisory counsel
- General counsel
- Litigator
- Assistant regional counsel
- Regional attorney
- Regional crown prosecutor
- Insurance lawyer
- Patent counsel
- Administrative lawyer
- Civil lawyer
- Commercial lawyer
- Criminal lawyer
- Immigration lawyer
- Labour lawyer
- Family and estates lawyer
- Industrial lawyer
- Real estate lawyer
- Trademark lawyer
- Intellectual-property lawyer
- Claim attorney
- Tariff counsel
- Title lawyer
- Associate counsel
- Contract counsel
- Counsel
- In-house legal counsel
- Tax attorney
- Barrister and solicitor
- Legal officer - canadian armed forces
- County attorney
- Legal aid lawyer
- Crown counsel
- Defence counsel
- City attorney
- Review lawyer
- Corporate counsel
- Crown corporation counsel
- Queen's counsel
- Assistant legal advisor
- Associate legal advisor
- Legislative adviser
- Law and corporate affairs adviser
- Attorney's assistant chief agent
- Legal officer
- Corporate notary (quebec)
- Commercial law notary
- Special prosecutor
- Prosecuting attorney
- Assistant crown attorney
- Deputy city solicitor
- Departmental solicitor
- Municipal solicitor
- Assistant general solicitor
- General solicitor
- Crown attorney
- Articling law student
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
Last update: January 29, 2026
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