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LAWPRO Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company (LAWPRO) is owned by the Law Society of Upper Canada and is licensed to provide professional liability insurance and title insurance in numerous jurisdictions across Canada. Through its malpractice insurance program, LAWPRO insures over 25,000 practising lawyers in Ontario, as well as providing them with risk and practice management information under the practicePRO banner.

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Equipment purchase scam using the names Lorenzo Vermolen and Deep Drill Group

by LAWPRO

fraud-warning

Two Ontario firms have notified us that they received an email from the purported Lorenzo Vermolen of Deep Drill Group looking to retain them with regards to making a large commercial purchase. This appears to be a bad cheque scam (with a real company likely being impersonated) that presents as legal matter requiring the assistance… Read More »

Categories: Fraud Warnings, Equipment / Inventory Purchase Fraud

Equipment purchase fraud using the names Jos Hardeman and Dieseko Group B.V

by LAWPRO

fraud-warning

Firms in Ontario and Colorado have notified us that they received an email from the purported Jos Hardeman of Dieseko Group B.V looking to retain them with regards to making a large commercial purchase. This appears to be a bad cheque scam (with a real company likely being impersonated) that presents as legal matter requiring… Read More »

Categories: Equipment / Inventory Purchase Fraud, Fraud Warnings

Equipment purchase scam using the names Ken Yao and Asunaro Aoki Construction

by LAWPRO

fraud-warning

Firms in Ontario and the US have notified us that they received an email from the purported Ken Yao of Asunaro Aoki Construction looking to retain them with regards to making a large commercial purchase. This appears to be a bad cheque scam (with a real company likely being impersonated) that presents as legal matter… Read More »

Categories: Fraud Warnings, Equipment / Inventory Purchase Fraud

“Not Your Mother’s Law Career”: The new student issue of LAWPRO Magazine

by LAWPRO

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Regardless of their reasons for choosing a legal education, today’s young lawyers can expect that their experiences practising law will be different from depictions of the profession they witnessed growing up. The future of law is no longer your mother’s, father’s, or Hollywood lawyer’s practice. The 2017 student issue of LAWPRO Magazine explores what this… Read More »

Categories: The TitlePLUS Program & Title Insurance, Legal Technology, LAWPRO Errors and Omissions Coverage, Practice Aids, Career Management

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The offices of LAWPRO are located on the traditional territory of many nations including the Mississaugas of the Credit, Anishnabeg, Chippewa, Haudenosaunee and Wendat peoples. Toronto is covered by Treaty 13 with the Mississaugas of the Credit. LAWPRO respects and acknowledges the histories, languages, knowledge systems, and cultures of First Nations, Metis, and Inuit nations.

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