I go to my dentist every nine months for a checkup. I see my doctor once a year, and my optometrist every two. Usually everything is fine, but it’s good to have a checkup on a regular basis to be sure.
Legal health checks are important, too. As Donald Rumsfeld, former Defense Secretary in the United States, once famously said, “There are a lot of unknown unknowns.” This is as true of the law as it is of medicine; if you don’t practice law or work regularly in the industry, you don’t know what you don’t know – and what you don’t know can, in fact, hurt you.
Enter Legal Health Checks from the Ontario Bar Association. This series of useful checklists helps you navigate some areas where you would commonly brush up against the law, such as divorce, buying a home, and general legal welfare.
Check it out for a lot of very useful information.
