Staying Ahead in Canada’s Legal Landscape | Practical Guidance Updates 2025

Practical Guidance offers new tools to help Canadian legal professionals work faster and with confidence. This update covers recent additions across key practice areas — including resource kits, practice notes and checklists — all designed to support drafting, compliance, and client service.

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• Capital Markets and M&A: Clarity Amid Complexity
• Employment Law: Reflecting the Realities of Today’s Workforce
• Family Law: Strengthening Trial Preparedness
• Personal Injury: Navigating LAT Hearings with Confidence
• The Value of Continuous Learning

Across Canada, lawyers are adapting to rapid regulatory, technological, and workforce changes. Staying informed is no longer optional, it’s essential to effective, compliant, and confident practice.

The August/September 2025 updates in Practical Guidance reflect this evolving reality. The platform now features new and updated tools, precedents, and expert insights across key Canadian practice areas, ensuring legal professionals stay ahead of change, not behind it.

Capital Markets and M&A: Clarity Amid Complexity

In the complex world of Canadian capital markets, informed decision-making depends on access to timely, reliable resources. Two new resource kits help practitioners manage growing governance and transaction demands:

• Audit Committee Resource Kit: Curated practice notes, checklists, and precedents supporting compliance, audit responsibilities, and corporate oversight.
• PIPE Transaction Resource Kit: A comprehensive overview of private investment in public equity (PIPE) transactions — an increasingly common financing strategy in Canada.

The new Capital Markets and M&A: Recently Added Resources Tracker (updated monthly) helps users quickly locate new practice notes, precedents, and flowcharts, so they always work from the most current Canadian content.

Employment Law: Reflecting the Realities of Today’s Workforce

The nature of work in Canada continues to shift and employment law must evolve with it. Recent updates in Practical Guidance address new employment realities, including gig work and bilingual labour relations.

Digital Platform Workers (ON)

Ontario’s new protections for digital platform workers are shaping modern employment law. A new practice note explains:

• Who qualifies as a digital platform worker
• What rights and entitlements apply
• Key compliance considerations for employers

Expanded Labour Law Tools

New materials help practitioners navigate union grievances and mediation processes with greater precision, including:

• Mediating Labour Disputes
• Responding to Grievances Checklist
• Minutes of Settlement precedents

Francophone and Quebec-Specific Content

The French-language collection in Practical Guidance now includes new Quebec-specific materials such as:

• Médiation des conflits en milieu de travail syndiqué
• La Loi sur les normes du travail : travailleurs exclus de l’application en vertu de l’article 3 (QC)
• Tribunal administratif du travail (QC)

Family Law: Strengthening Trial Preparedness

In Canadian family law, trial preparation is where strong advocacy meets procedural mastery.

The Family Law Trials topic now features:

• Common Evidence Tips (ON)
• Trials: Qualifying an Expert (Voir Dire) (ON)
• Re-Examination Questions (Trial) (ON)

Developed by an expert freelancer and refined by a judge, these tools help lawyers anticipate evidentiary challenges and strengthen trial readiness.

Personal Injury: Navigating LAT Hearings with Confidence

Effective advocacy before the License Appeal Tribunal (LAT) in Ontario requires both procedural precision and strategic insight. The latest Practical Guidance additions simplify LAT proceedings with four new resources, including:

• LAT Hearings: Videoconference and Written Hearings (ON)
• Notice of Motion (LAT Hearing, Applicant) (Sample) (ON)

Developed by a leading expert author, these resources include ready-to-use precedents and procedural tips for streamlined, effective tribunal practice.

The Value of Continuous Learning

Law in Canada evolves daily, shaped by legislation, policy shifts, and new judicial interpretations. The August/September 2025 Practical Guidance updates demonstrate the LexisNexis Canada commitment to equipping practitioners with current, authoritative, and practical insights.

In a landscape defined by constant change, those who stay informed stay ahead.

From capital markets to family law, Practical Guidance delivers the trusted, up-to-date resources Canadian legal professionals rely on to anticipate change, make informed decisions, and serve clients with confidence.

Discover how Practical Guidance can help you stay current across every major practice area.