Agent Affairs Program

Welcome to Agent Affairs

The Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada is responsible for the legal affairs of the government as a whole and for providing legal services to individual departments and agencies. To help the Minister carry out this mandate, the Department of Justice relies on its in-house counsel as well as on private sector law practitioners appointed as Legal Agents. “Law practitioners” include law firms and lawyers, “études de notaires” and notaries in the Province of Quebec, retired judges and law professors..

The Department of Justice invites law practitioners across Canada to register interest in being considered for appointment as Legal Agents of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada to provide the Government of Canada with legal advisory, real estate or litigation services in a broad variety of Practice Areas across the country.

This Web site describes how law practitioners can register their interest in becoming Legal Agents of the Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada.  For complete details, visit the section Expression of Interest, where you will find a Registration Form.

Please note that this process does not apply to prosecution work. Information on becoming a Legal Agent of the Director of Public Prosecutions can be found at: http://www.ppsc-sppc.gc.ca/eng/aaf-man/index.html.