My understanding is that every lawyer in Canada is required to pay for and carry professional liability insurance that protects clients in the event the lawyer is found to be professionally negligent in a service they provide a client.  In the event a lawyer is criminally fraudulent and steals from a client, I don't believe the insurance protects the client.  As a self-regulated profession, in the event of criminal theft,  it is the lawyers of the Province who collectively band together and repay the harmed clients out of their own law society fees.  The $120k levy that the Law Society has placed on Mr. Beaver to compensate it for the costs of the investigation and disbarment, I believe he will have to pay that personally (and I expect he will not ever be allowed to practice again until it and possibly the other funds to compensate the harmed) are repaid to the Law Society.