Rosemary Bocska, Research Lawyer

About Rosemary Bocska, Research Lawyer

Rosemary Bocska, Research Lawyer is a solo Ontario practice that provides outsourced legal research, legal opinions, and litigation drafting to other lawyers and law firms across Canada, rather than acting directly for members of the public. Bocska holds an honours degree in psychology and English from the University of Windsor, earned in 1986, and a law degree from the University of Windsor Faculty of Law, earned in 1989. Bocska was called to the Ontario bar in 1991, practiced initially at an employment and labour law firm, and established the research practice in 1992.

From 1994 to 2003, Bocska worked full time at LexisNexis Canada as Legal Information Manager, in charge of the company's Canadian online legal content. Bocska has written or updated more than 75 legal publications for LexisNexis/Butterworths, Thomson Carswell Professional Publishing, Canada Law Book, and Lancaster House, including several Halsbury's Laws of Canada volumes and the loose-leaf Employment in Alberta, Employment in British Columbia, and Employment in Ontario titles, in print since 2001. The practice's day-to-day work covers memoranda of law, factums, legal opinions, case-law retrieval, and legal writing for lawyers who need to bring in outside research and drafting help.