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Lawyers are given the opportunity to participate in the services provided
by Weblaw in three ways:
1. Weblaw Affiliates
E-Mail/Site Linkage: This package is ideally suited
to a lawyer who already has a presence on the Internet, such as
through an e-mail address or a web site. With this package, you
will be added to the Weblaw Directory of Lawyers. If you have
an existing home page/website, it will be linked to Weblaw through
your directory listing. As well, if you have an existing e-mail
address, you will be given a Weblaw alias (e.g. tomjones@inet.ca
will receive mail through the alias of tomjones@weblaw.ca). The
cost of this package is $95.00 yearly, plus GST.
If you would like to order E-Mail/Site Linkage, click
here.
Web Access Design: Weblaw can further CREATE a cost-effective Web Site
for you through standardized templates, with E-Mail/Site Linkage
as noted above. The E-Mail/Site Linkage pricing is as noted above.
If you would like further pricing information on Web Access Design,
contact us.
2. Area Representatives
Become an Area Representative for Weblaw: As noted on our Home Page, Weblaw doesn't
expect to be the final answer in all circumstances, only a potential
answer. Our Home Page immediately gives the user an opportunity
to "contact a lawyer". As well, we anticipate that a
number of users who might not think they need to "contact
a lawyer" at first will feel differently once they are better
informed through their use of the Weblaw modules. Throughout these
modules, users are advised of circumstances which are not addressed
by the standard templates created by Weblaw, and given the opportunity
to "contact a lawyer" through
an e-mail link. Lastly, a user may have an enquiry with respect
to an area of law not addressed by a Weblaw module, in which event
it will be necessary for the user to "contact a lawyer".
As an "Area Respresentative" of Weblaw, you will have
the responsiblity, and obviously the opporutnity, to respond to
any enquiry made by a user in your "territory" who has
made an enqujiry to Weblaw in respect of the area of law which
you represent. Upon Weblaw's receipt
of the enquiry from a user, it forwards the enquiry to the Area
Representative in that Town/City for the area of law specified.
Such representation is exclusive: That is, only one lawyer is
appointed for each area of law in each Town/City. The exception
is Toronto, which continues to refer to the pre-amalgamation geographic
municipalities, and further divides the pre-amalgamation City
of Toronto into North Toronto and South Toronto, with Bloor Street
being the dividing line. In order to become an Area Representative,
a lawyer must have an e-mail address linked to Weblaw as described
in E-Mail/Site Linkage above. In addition, he must sign a Weblaw
Affiliate Agreement which obligates him, among other matters,
to respond to all e-mail enquiries made.
In order to become an
Area Representative, an initial set-up fee of $275.00, plus GST,
is required. Thereafter, an Area Representative must pay a yearly
fee for E-Mail/Site Linkage as described above, together with
a further yearly licence fee of $375.00, plus GST, for each area
of law subscribed for in each Town/City for the right to promote
himself or herself as an "Authorized Weblaw (R) Area Representative".
The licence fee is not paid by the lawyer for the purposes
of securing referrals of work: To the contrary, in agreeing to
become a Weblaw Affiliate, the lawyer should recognize the services
which he or she is providing to Weblaw and the community in answering
the enquiries made by Weblaw users. In fact, Weblaw will credit
any Area Representative for which Weblaw has not received a complaint
during any contract year with the sum of $100.00 towards any next
following licence fees payable by the Area Representative in recognition
of the services provided by the Area Representative to Weblaw's
users. Weblaw reserves the right to restrict the number of areas
of law and Towns/Cities subscribed for by a lawyer. The maximum
term of an Affiliate Agreement is two years, subject to renewal
upon the agreement of the parties upon expiry.
If you would like to become an area representive, click here.
3. Franchise
Become a Weblaw Franchisee:
Lawyers and paralegals practicing in a Province not
yet represented by Weblaw may submit applications to become a
Weblaw franchisee of that Province. If accepted, the lawyer then
provides the client services describe in Weblaw's Home Page, and
further administers the Area Representatives.
If you would like more information on becoming a Weblaw franchisee, click here.
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