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Here at LawyerLocate.ca we love sharing our member’s accomplishments. Today we’re proud to tell you about a Toronto-area estate lawyer, Charles Ticker, who was recently awarded the prestigious Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

The Diamond Jubilee Medal was created in 2012 to celebrate the 60^th anniversary of Her Magesty Queen Elizabeth II’s accession to the Throne as Queen of Canada. It is awarded to honour significant contributions and achievements by Canadians.  The medal design was created by the Canadian Heraldic Authority and it’s manufactured at the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa.

Charles Ticker runs a busy law office with a focus on estate litigation, estate administration and mediation. In addition, he volunteers a tremendous amount of time to the community by serving meals to the homeless through the Out of the Cold program. He also provides pro bono wills to cancer patients through Wellspring Toronto. Finally, he has helped out with passport clinics for constituents in Thornhill.

Charles Ticker is well versed in Estate Law and has been providing solutions for clients for over 30 years from his office in Markham, Ontario. He is well known for his detailed knowledge of the law and for his close relationships with clients. Charles graduated from McGill University in 1974 with a B.Sc. (Hon) in Psychology and he received his LL.B. from Osgoode Hall Law School in 1978.  Charles went on to attend Harvard Law School in 2007 to become a certified mediator, as compulsory mediation is now part of the estate litigation process.  

Outside of the courtroom and office, Charles plays keyboards with “The Faded Genes”, his garage band. He is also presently writing a book on estate litigation. If you’re interested in learning more from Charles, you can follow him on Twitter at @CTicker, view his LinkedIn profile or check out his blog, The Sibling Fight. 

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We’ve designed the LawyerLocate.ca smartphone application to easily market your practice to individuals and small businesses across Canada and the globe. When a user downloads the free LawyerLocate.ca application, he or she can easily find nearby Canadian lawyers based on the user’s GPS location, the category of law selected or keywords searched. If a potential client is unsure of the type of lawyer they need, they can easily fill out the confidential referral request and LawyerLocate.ca processes the referral. The user is then contacted by a Canadian lawyer by telephone to further discuss the potential matter at hand.

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Craig Penney, a Toronto criminal lawyer, has a very enviable website presence.  I actually had another criminal lawyer once tell me in an email: I really like his site and you should see how effectively he pops up in Google searches without sponsorship. He is my web hero.

Strong words from a colleague hoping to mimic his online presence.

I had an opportunity to chat with Mr. Penney the other day and I asked him a few questions about his website, his approach, and why he thinks it has been so successful. This is what he shared with me:

I realized very quickly that, for potential clients, hiring a criminal lawyer is a very personal decision. Potential clients needed to know not only how I could help, but "who" I was. Before the web, that information had to be conveyed either on the phone or in person.The web changed all that.

Mr. Penney's website does not specifically educate people about the law. It was purposely designed to introduce himself to his potential client and allow them to get a feel for who he is as a person and as a lawyer.  Clients can spend as much time as they want reading about Mr. Penney and his cases, in order to assist them in making an informed decision about whether to hire him or not.

He attributes his website's success to the site's ability to allow potential clients to get a real feel for who he is as a person and lawyer.

His advice to lawyers who ask him about creating a website?  Start, he says, by realizing that clients want to know who you are, and then ask yourself the following:

1. What kind of person are you?
2. What kind of lawyer are you?
3. How can I best convey that information in a website?