Manitoba
Every lawyer we list in Winnipeg, across all practice areas. Each lawyer was checked on their provincial law society's public directory before being listed — check again before you hire, as people move firms.
Kenneth Zaifman · Founding & Managing Partner
191 Lombard Avenue, Suite 500, Winnipeg, MB R3B 0X1
Founder of the firm, which practises only immigration law. He took his first immigration case in 1979 and started his own firm in 1986. The firm's work includes spouse, partner and other family class sponsorships, permanent residence and citizenship.
Richard M. Beamish · Partner
330 St. Mary Avenue, Suite 1000, Winnipeg, MB R3C 3Z5
Civil litigator with experience in personal injury claims and commercial litigation, who also handles medical malpractice, disability insurance and estate litigation. The firm acts for plaintiffs in personal injury claims and also covers family law, employment law for employees and employers, residential real estate, and wills and estates.
Greg Bartel · Partner
240 Graham Avenue, Suite 724, Winnipeg, MB R3C 0J7
Partner practising mainly labour and employment law. He helps people in unionized and non-unionized workplaces with termination of employment, including wrongful dismissal and severance package advice, employment contracts and human rights issues. The firm also covers residential real estate, and wills and estates.
Winnipeg is Manitoba's capital, and its three courts share one building: the Court of King's Bench, the Provincial Court and the Court of Appeal are all at the Law Courts Building, 408 York Avenue. The Probate Division in Winnipeg is the central registry for probate across the province. For home buyers, Teranet Manitoba's land titles office is at 200 Graham Avenue, and the Residential Tenancies Branch is at 155 Carlton Street.
Kenneth Zaifman at Zaifman Law focuses on immigration work. Richard M. Beamish is at Tapper Cuddy LLP, which covers personal injury, family, employment, real estate, wills and estates. Greg Bartel at Myers LLP focuses on employment work, and the firm also covers real estate, wills and estates.
The Court of King's Bench hears larger civil claims, and its Family Division is a unified family court that hears all family matters, including divorce and the division of family property. Small Claims Court, part of the Court of King's Bench, hears claims up to $20,000. Immigration, citizenship and divorce are governed by federal law. Lawyers are regulated by the Law Society of Manitoba, which also deals with complaints about them.
For Winnipeg, family cases — including divorce and the division of family property — go to the Court of King's Bench (Family Division) at the Law Courts Building, 408 York Avenue.
Probate is granted by the Court of King's Bench. Its Probate Division in Winnipeg is the central registry for all probate matters in Manitoba. The Court of King's Bench in Winnipeg is at the Law Courts Building, 408 York Avenue.
Employment standards claims go to Manitoba's Employment Standards Branch within six months of your last day of work, and human rights complaints go to the Manitoba Human Rights Commission within one year.
Legal Aid Manitoba provides legal services to low-income adults and youth who qualify financially and have a case with merit, including in family, child protection, criminal, immigration and refugee, and residential tenancy matters. Call 204-985-8500 or 1-800-261-2960. Legal Aid Manitoba
Court details from Manitoba Courts: locations (manitobacourts.mb.ca). Most cases settle without a hearing — your lawyer will tell you if you need to attend.
Law Courts Building (Court of King's Bench (including the Family Division), Provincial Court and Court of Appeal). The Court of King's Bench hears larger civil claims, and its Family Division hears all family matters, including divorce and the division of family property; Small Claims Court, part of the Court of King's Bench, hears claims up to $20,000.
For Winnipeg, family cases — including divorce and the division of family property — go to the Court of King's Bench (Family Division) at the Law Courts Building, 408 York Avenue.
Probate is granted by the Court of King's Bench. Its Probate Division in Winnipeg is the central registry for all probate matters in Manitoba. The Court of King's Bench in Winnipeg is at the Law Courts Building, 408 York Avenue.
Employment standards claims go to Manitoba's Employment Standards Branch within six months of your last day of work, and human rights complaints go to the Manitoba Human Rights Commission within one year.
To practise law in Manitoba a lawyer must be a member of the Law Society of Manitoba. You can look up any lawyer in the Law Society's public Lawyer Lookup, which shows their practising status and, under their practice history, any discipline history or restriction. Each lawyer on these pages was checked there before being listed, but people move firms, so check again before you hire. Complaints about a lawyer go to the Law Society.
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