Notaries
Job description
These individuals provide legal advice to their clients and draft legal documents. They assess the legal implications of their clients’ decisions to prevent litigation. They are self-employed or work for companies or notarial law firms.
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Provide advice on family, real estate, agricultural, aviation, maritime, business, and succession law.
- Draft, authenticate, and keep documents of agreements between different parties (marriage certificates, wills, real estate contracts, etc.).
- Act as a public officer recognized by the State.
- Inform clients of their rights and any legal issues.
- Act as a notary and identity verification agent for government agencies, as required.
- Act as mediator, conciliator, arbitrator, liquidator, trustee, or tutor, as required.
- Represent a person before the courts, as required.
Advancement and mobility
- These individuals may specialize in various areas of law (tax, international, intellectual property, etc.).
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
Also required
- Registration at the Chambre des notaires.
- 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
- 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
- Autonomy
- Sense of responsibility
- Capacity to adapt
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Rigour
- Capacity to be discrete
- Respect standards and regulations
- Capacity for synthesis
- Knowledge of laws and policies
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Watch, defend, and secure
- Work in an office
- 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.
- Artistic
- People with this profile prefer to express their emotions and thoughts through various art forms. They like to use their imagination.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
Appellation d’emploi liée (à traduire)
Lawyers and Quebec notaries (CNP 41101)
Skill type
Education, law and social, community and government services
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Last update: January 29, 2026