Guides

Practical guides for your matter

Each guide helps you organize facts, documents and deadlines. Legal information only — not legal advice.

Court papers

General · 5 min

You were served with court papers. What should you organize first?

A plain-language checklist for the first 24 hours after receiving court documents.

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Evidence

General · 6 min

How to organize evidence before court

Build a clean record of photos, emails, messages, witnesses, and events before memory fades.

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Consumer disputes

General · 5 min

Bank dispute? Build your file from day one

Track calls, promises, emails, complaint numbers, and unanswered questions in a banking dispute.

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Ontario · 6 min

Small claims in Ontario: organizing a claim up to $35,000

Ontario's Small Claims Court (a branch of the Superior Court of Justice) hears monetary claims up to $35,000. How to organize the facts, documents, and deadlines before you file or respond.

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Housing

General · 5 min

Facing eviction? Start preparing before the hearing

Preserve rent records, notices, photos, messages, repairs, and witness information early.

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Deadlines

General · 4 min

You may have missed a deadline. What now?

A calm triage guide for finding the exact deadline, source rule, and next practical step.

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Small business

General · 6 min

Contract dispute in a small business? Preserve the operating record

Organize contracts, change orders, invoices, delivery proof, messages, and losses before the dispute grows.

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Documents for use abroad

Québec · 6 min

Which Québec body issues the document you need apostilled?

An apostille certifies a Québec public document so another country will accept it. But the apostille comes second — first you must obtain the document from the body that has authority to issue it. Here is who issues what.

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