Harris & Harris LLP
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Harris + Harris LLP provides a legal team driven to deliver result oriented, corporate and litigation legal services.
Providing both practical and innovative legal advice to assist our clients in attaining and maintaining their success, the professional and dedicated lawyers at Harris + Harris LLP practice in the areas that will meet all of our clients’ professional and personal needs: Corporate Law, Securities, Employment Law, Family Law, Wills and Estates, Real Estate, Commercial Litigation and Tax Planning.
Whether you are a sole proprietor or a Fortune 500 company, an employer or an employee, operate locally or internationally, Harris + Harris LLP will be your law firm of choice to ensure that you reach your own personal finish line atop the podium.
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Harris + Harris LLP takes pride in being able to offer our clients a full complement of corporate and litigation services that provide solutions to any opportunities or challenges that you may encounter.
Harris + Harris LLP’s Corporate team will assist you and your business venture whether you operate as a sole proprietor, a partnership, or as a limited company. Harris + Harris LLP will guide you through any stage of your business, from just getting started to going public. We have the expertise and the know how that will not only help you overcome difficulties as they arise, but will allow you to structure matters to avoid problems altogether.
Every business will, from time to time, find itself embroiled in the litigation process. Working with Harris + Harris LLP’s Litigation lawyers, who know you and your business, will give you the advantage that is crucial to achieving optimum results.
Our Employment Law lawyers can advise and assist in the creation and implementation of policies and procedures, employment contracts, the termination process including wrongful dismissal actions, and any of the related issues from Human Rights to Worker’s safety and Insurance.
And Harris + Harris LLP is here to look after your personal needs as well. Our Real Estate practice is equipped to handle both residential and commercial transactions whether you are a purchaser, vendor, mortgagor or mortgagee. Our Wills and Estate lawyers will help to ensure that your affairs are in order. Working closely with our Tax Planning Department, we can assist you in minimizing your taxes, establishing family trusts and providing for your heirs.
Harris + Harris LLP’s Family Law department is comprised of lawyers who are sensitive to the stresses that go hand in hand with divorce and separation, and who will fight hard to obtain your rightful entitlement during this difficult process.
Please visit the practice area pages to find out more about the area of law in which Harris + Harris LLP can help you with today.
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The lawyers at Harris + Harris LLP each bring with them a passion for the law, the desire to obtain the best results for our clients, and the dedication and skills to ensure that this happens. Our seamless integration of practice areas guarantees that the right lawyer or combination of lawyers will tackle each file as the nature and the complexity of the work dictate. As most of the lawyers in our firm, at one time or another, have worked at large Toronto law firms, Harris + Harris LLP can offer the sophistication of a downtown practice with the convenience and personable atmosphere that can only be achieved in a firm such as ours.
In addition to providing you with a professional biography for each of our lawyers, we have also included a personal biography which will give you a flavour of the interests and activities of the lawyers beyond the practice of law. At Harris + Harris, we understand that the relationship between the lawyer and the client should be based on mutual trust and respect. It doesn’t hurt if you happen to find that you share some of the same interests and passions.
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At Harris + Harris LLP we hire articling students as if we are hiring a lawyer. In a smaller firm, such as ours, there are simply not the resources to allow students to wallow in mundane research and make-work projects. Nor do we view the first two years of practice as a Master's in articling. From the moment you commence working at Harris + Harris LLP, you participate in the full cycle of files and lawyering so that upon being called to the bar, you hit the ground running.
The major practice groups at Harris + Harris LLP have a meeting once a week for file review sessions. In these meetings, lead lawyers raise issues of interest and concern about active files for group discussion. Each articling student automatically becomes a member of each of the practice area groups upon commencing articling and is encouraged to be an active participant in these meetings. Right from the commencement of articles the student will find out which lawyer is doing what and will be exposed to the pressing issues that have arisen in the active files. As the year progresses, the student will be exposed to issues concerning retaining clients, conflicts, tactical strategy, billing, marketing, recruitment, expansion and staff related issues. Each practice group approaches files and practice management on a team basis. Practicing law is knowing that the advice and opinion of lawyers you work with is essential to building a professional and successful practice. Beyond that, however, being a good lawyer is knowing that ultimately the "buck stops with you" regardless of your year of call to the Bar. The sooner you can handle the realization that the "buck stops with you", the sooner you will be able to handle your own files, manage your own clients and build a successful practice.
At the start of articling you will specify your preference practice area. You and your appointed mentor will then consult before your articling year begins to work out an articling program that will ensure you get as much exposure to your practice area of choice as possible. Your articling mentor will also ensure that you have important grounding in the other major practice areas of the firm. As you have seen or will see from our firm profile, Harris + Harris has the advantage of being a small firm with diverse practice areas. This ensures a well–rounded articling experience and leaves you more options for your legal career path. Although we encourage students to pursue their preferred practice area, we also encourage them to keep an open mind.
WHY is Harris + Harris the right choice for you?
* You want to learn. * You want to know. * You want to understand. * You want to be trusted. * You want to be encouraged. * You want to be empowered. * You shun hierarchy. * You envision practicing in your own niche area. * You are entrepreneurial. * You are committed to building a client base. * You want to be valued.
Only you have the answers. The choice is ultimately yours.
WHAT’S in it for you?
Articling students at Harris + Harris LLP will receive the following:
* Excellent hands-on experience * Exposure to all aspects of the firm’s practice * Paid Bar-admission * Private window office * Computer * Competitive salary with benefits * Shared assistant
Advantages of a suburban Uptown vs. Downtown Firm
1. The air is cleaner 2. Closer to client base 3. 30 minutes closer to Muskoka 4. Free parking 5. 30 minutes closer to real golf courses 6. Cheaper gas 7. Within walking distance of the airport, 401, 427 and 400 8. No traffic jams 9. Clearer cell phone reception 10. No squeegee kids
Regardless of where you article, we thank you for visiting our website and want to share with you our 10 tips for articling. We wish you every success in the practice of law. Please feel free to contact any member of our firm with questions about their specific practice area, or articling generally.
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