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What Case Issues Is [Legal Firm's Name] Able to Handle?
[Legal Firm's Name] Provides Services Focusing Upon a Broad Variety of Legal Issues As Summarized Below.
Cases That [Legal Firm's Name] Is Ready to HelpWith
The various types of law are extensive and certainly too much for anybody to ever fully know. Even judges with decades of experience will lack full knowledge of all types of law; and accordingly, judges are usually assigned to specific types of cases where the type of law involved is familiar. Additionally, judges often expect and require legal representatives to research precedent cases and submit summarized, and cited, viewpoints as arguments for a position in the case as per that research.
“... I include myself among those who had never heard of the tort of barratry ...”
~ C.A. Osborne A.C.J.O.
McIntyre Estate v. Ontario, 2001 CanLII 7972 (ON CA)
Accordingly, there will be certain judges who will hear civil law cases and there will be other judges who hear family law cases and then other judges who hear criminal cases, etc. In a similar fashion, lawyers and paralegals will develop specific areas of law as the types of cases that are focused upon. Of course, it is true that every case has a unique factual situation; however, the law and justice system, developed over hundreds of years, now involves few cases where the legal issues are a first; and accordingly, relevant law containing the fundamentals and principles for most circumstances will exist.
