Research Guides: Forms and Precedents: General Resources

General Resources

Several general resources exist with the goal of providing forms and precedents across legal practice areas. For law students with individual Lexis and Westlaw accounts, these include two online platforms: Lexis Practical Guidance and Practical Law Canada.

Practical Law Canada and Lexis Practical Guidance

Lexis Practical Guidance (law student accounts)
Select "Practical Guidance" on the Lexis+ homepage. Includes precedents, forms, checklists, practice notes, etc. in the following areas: Capital Markets and M&A, Commercial, Corporate and Private M&A, Employment, Family Law, Finance, In-House Counsel, Insolvency & Restructuring, Intellectual Property & Technology, Litigation & Dispute Resolution, Personal Injury, Real Estate, and Wills, Trusts & Estates.
Practical Law Canada (law student accounts)
Includes practice notes, standard documents and clauses, checklists, toolkits, a glossary, and a provincial legislation comparison tool in the following areas: Capital Markets & Securities, Commercial Real Estate, Commercial Transactions, Competition, Corporate and M&A, Employment, Finance, Insolvency & Restructuring, Legal Operations & Professional Development, Litigation: Corporate & Commercial.

Other General Resources

Canadian Forms and Precedents
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: Updated regularly
Titles covering various subjects. Volumes include: Commercial Tenancies, Municipal Law, Licensing , Intellectual Property, Commercial Transactions, Information Technology and Entertainment, Sale and Operation of a Business, and Sale, Distribution and Transport of Goods.
O'Brien's Encyclopedia of Forms
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: Updated regularly
A collection of legal forms and precedents organized by topic across a number of volumes. Please note that not all divisions are in our online subscription, only the following: Division I - Commercial and General; Division II - Corporations; Division VI - Ontario Family Law; Division VII - Labour Relations and Employment; Division VIII - Ontario Court Forms; Division X - Computers and Information Technology.
Law Society of Ontario: Access CLE
The LSO's Annotated Document Series provides clause-by-clause commentary on over 50 standard documents. Browse the collection in the LSO's library and then, once you've identified a relevant document, search for the e-version by title on Access CLE.
Bullen & Leake & Jacob's Canadian Precedents of Pleadings, 2nd edition
Call Number: KE 8375 B85 2013 LAW
Publication Date: 2013
The Canadian version of an established British title, featuring a collection of litigation precedents organized topically and covering the following areas: Class Actions, Competition Law, Construction Law, Contracts, Corporate, Defamation, Employment and Labour Law, Equitable Remedies, Insolvency, Intellectual Property, Judicial Review, Personal Injury, Privacy, Professional Negligence, Securities, and The Supreme Court of Canada.