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  • Spear Phishing Campaigns

    You may think that phishing attempts are easy to spot and you couldn’t be fooled, but not all phishing attempts are created equal. Meet the spear phishing campaign. Spear phishing occurs when fraudsters target a specific person, organization, or group using information they have gathered in advance. … Read more »

  • Real Fakes: What To Do If You’ve Been Impersonated

    LAWPRO has received several reports of fraudsters impersonating lawyers. Fraudsters will use a lawyer’s identity to deceive the public, clients and prospective clients, other lawyers, or third parties into sending money, such as a retainer fee or transaction-related funds. In other cases, the impers … Read more »

  • New Fraud Scheme: Insurance Settlement Funds

    A new fraud scheme involving insurance settlement funds has a familiar end: the cheque is no good. The scheme commences when fraudster approaches a lawyer, usually with no previous relationship, asking the lawyer to review settlement documents, provide ILA, and receive the settlement funds into the … Read more »

  • Effective September 1, 2026: Amendments to Rules of Civil Procedure (O. Reg. 275/26)

    From the Court Services Division of the Ministry of the Attorney General: On August 12, 2026, Ontario Regulation 275/26 was filed to amend the Rules of Civil Procedure to require parties and expert witnesses to certify the accuracy of quotations used in their factums and expert reports, respectively … Read more »

  • New Cybersecurity Threat from AI Searches: The Rise of Phantom Squatting

    AI doesn’t just hallucinate case law, it hallucinates website domains too. In a new and growing form of digital attack, hackers use AI agents to query search engines to get the most common hallucinated sites. A bad actor then registers the hallucinated domain and creates a convincing website at that … Read more »