The Legal Platform for Lawyers in Canada
A client describes their matter, and it reaches the lawyers whose practice area and province fit it. It is free for lawyers during early access, and we never take a share of your fee. What that costs, and where it puts us against everyone else, is the next thing on this page.
What this costs you, and where that puts us
You are most likely weighing us against paid search, so the useful comparison is a price rather than a feature table. Every seller here takes its money at a different point in the funnel, and that point decides who carries the risk. Ours is below.
What we charge
Nothing, during early access
We are not charging lawyers while we build the network. When that changes we will publish it here before it takes effect, not after.
What we never take
No share of your legal fee
Rule 3.6-7 means we could not lawfully take one, whatever we charge later. What you bill, and how you scope the retainer, stays entirely yours.
What we cannot do
Carry the risk that a lead does not sign
No platform in Canada can. Being paid only when you are paid would mean sharing in a legal fee, and that is the one model the rules prohibit.
And the question we cannot answer for you
This is the open question in the category, and the one to put to us when we do start charging. A fee priced per client is the arrangement rule 3.6-7 (b) on rewards for referrals is read against, in a way a flat subscription is not. The conventional Canadian reading treats payment for access to qualified enquiries as a marketing cost, and we could find no published Canadian decision or law society opinion settling it squarely. It does not arise for us today, because we charge nothing. It is still the right question to put to any platform you do pay, and the reasoning is set out in our breakdown of what an online legal marketplace actually charges for, where we place ourselves on the ladder alongside everyone else.
What the alternative costs, province by province
Paid search charges you the moment a stranger clicks, before anyone is a lead or has described a matter. This is what that click costs on the plain query in each province’s largest city. Halifax is the dearest in the country at $11.42 and Saskatoon the cheapest at $2.23, which is not the order most people expect.
What reaches you here is a stage further on than a click: a described matter, from someone who has already set out the problem. Whether that is worth more depends on your own funnel, and our guide to law firm marketing in Canada works through how to make it.
Shading is the advertised price of one click in CAD. Hatched tiles returned no price at all.
- NSHalifax110/mo$11.42
- ONToronto590/mo$8.69
- ABCalgary720/mo$8.59
- BCVancouver390/mo$7.24
- PECharlottetown0/mo$5.15
- QCMontreal480/mo$4.57
- NBMoncton110/mo$3.36
- NLSt. John's70/mo$3.13
- MBWinnipeg320/mo$2.64
- NTYellowknife10/mo$2.27
- SKSaskatoon170/mo$2.23
- YTWhitehorse20/mon/a
- NUIqaluitno datan/a
Source: Semrush Analytics API, Canada database, 7 September 2026, for “lawyer” plus each province’s largest city. Semrush reports cost per click in US dollars, so every figure above is converted at the Bank of Canada daily average rate of 1 USD to 1.3840 CAD, 4 September 2026. Advertised prices move with the auction. Charlottetown returns $5.15 with no measurable search volume behind it, and Iqaluit returns nothing, so Nunavut is drawn as no data rather than a zero.
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How Olanur Helps Lawyers
Three steps, and the second one is where most of the work happens.
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Three obligations that stay with you, whatever you sign up to
A marketing service can carry the work. It cannot carry your licence. These are the three places that catch people out, each against the rule that creates it.
The words written about you are still your marketing
Marketing of legal services has to be demonstrably true, accurate and verifiable, and that test follows the claim rather than the author. The Law Society of Alberta states it plainly: you are responsible for how you are described by a referral or a matching service. We would rather you read your own profile once a year than take our word for how it is worded.
Nobody outside the profession can share your fee
A licensee cannot give a non-licensee a financial reward for referring clients, and cannot share a legal fee with one. That is why no Canadian platform can offer to be paid only when you are, however it is phrased. We take no share of your fee and no say in what you charge, and that will hold whatever we charge for the service itself later. Where a fee priced per client sits against rule 3.6-7 (b) is genuinely unsettled, and we say so above rather than claiming an answer.
Buying leads is not an affiliation, but bundling might be
An affiliation arises where a licensee joins with a non-licensee on a regular basis to deliver or promote both parties’ services together, and it carries real duties: immediate notice to the Law Society, the financial arrangements filed, an annual report by 31 January, and a 60-day default that leads to summary suspension under s. 47 (1) (a) of the Law Society Act. Paying for enquiries that reach you does not create that relationship. Jointly delivering a bundled service may, so it is worth checking against your own arrangement.
Rule references are to the Federation of Law Societies of Canada Model Code of Professional Conduct as amended April 2024, the national model each law society draws its own rules from, and are not any one province’s enacted text. By-Law 7 is Ontario’s own instrument. General information for licensees, not legal or compliance advice.
What Canadian Lawyers Are Saying About Olanur
Feedback from licensed lawyers using the platform, on what changed about the enquiries reaching them.
“Olanur has transformed how I connect with clients. The AI matching means I only hear from people whose cases genuinely fit my practice. My consultation-to-retainer rate has never been higher.”
Family and mediation lawyer
Toronto, Ontario
Feedback from lawyers using the platform. Names are withheld and each is described by practice and province rather than identified, so nothing here is attributed to a person who did not say it.
The questions a licensee actually asks before signing up
Most of these are compliance questions rather than product questions, so they are answered against the rule that governs them. Where a question has no settled answer in Canada, it says so.
No. Olanur is a technology platform, not a law firm and not a referral service. A client describes their matter through a structured intake, and the platform routes that request to lawyers whose practice areas and jurisdiction fit it. We take no share of any legal fee and have no say in what you charge or how you scope a retainer.
What we publish for the people we ask to sign up
Get startedPractice Area Guides
Guides for lawyers, all of them
- PillarLaw firm marketing in CanadaThe pillar. What the conduct rules let you claim, and what your own city charges for a client.
- Before you signWhat an online legal marketplace charges forEvery model sorted by the point in the funnel where the seller takes its money. Olanur included.
- ChannelAI legal lead generation for lawyersHow enquiries get routed and qualified now, and what changed about the top of the funnel.
- IntakeClient intake and lead qualityWhat separates a scoped enquiry from a raw one, and how to tell before you pay for either.
- PracticeAI for Canadian lawyersThe tools inside the practice, mapped task by task against the oversight each one needs.
- OverviewAI and legal technology in CanadaThe wider shift, from research and drafting through to how clients now search for counsel.
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