Charity and Not-for-Profit Law are very niche areas of law.
In fact, there are only a handful of lawyers across Canada who are experts in these two areas of law.
The first thing to do when searching for a Charity or Not-for-Profit lawyer is to look for experience and practice focus.
Here are some questions to ask a charity lawyer before hiring him or her:
- With approximately 50% of all charity applications being rejected, do you guarantee charity registration?
- How many years’ experience do you have in the charity area of law?
- Approximately how many charity applications and registration have your processed?
- Are you fees fixed or do you charge per hour?
- If you allow for fixed fees, what do they include?
- Do they include all registration fees, HST, correspondence with the CRA, all the way to registration? Or
- do the fees only cover the application?