2007 Centennial | Centennial Pro Bono Law Alberta
Launch of Pro Bono Law Alberta in Calgary with (from right to left) Jim Peacock, QC, Law Society of Alberta president; Rod Jerke, QC, President of Pro Bono Law Alberta; The Honourable Ron Stevens, Minister of Justice and Attorney General; and Susan Billington, Executive Director, Pro Bono Law Alberta
Pro Bono Law Alberta
| Mission: |
To improve access to justice by increasing the scope and availability of pro bono legal services for Albertans of limited means. Pro bono legal services are intended to complement, not to replace, a properly funded legal aid system |
As a 100th anniversary legacy project, the Law Society of Alberta facilitated the formation of Pro Bono Law Alberta. This is a new non-profit organization that will promote access to justice in Alberta by creating opportunities for lawyers to provide pro bono (free) legal services to persons of limited means.
It will undertake activities relating to these goals:
- Creating opportunities for Alberta lawyers to discharge their professional responsibilities to provide pro bono legal services.
- Improving the overall delivery of pro bono legal services by facilitating the integration and co-ordination of services provided by pro bono organizations throughout the province of Alberta.
- Ensuring province-wide access to high-quality pro bono legal services to persons of limited means by: (i) supporting and improving the quality of existing pro bono programs; (ii) working with existing pro bono legal clinics to assist them in providing pro bono services; and (iii) fostering the development of new pro bono programs where needed.
- Enhancing the growth of a pro bono culture within the Alberta bar.
- Raising general public awareness of pro bono legal services to community organizations and persons of limited means who require legal services.
- Raising the awareness of Alberta lawyers of the need for pro bono services and of the resources available to lawyers who are prepared to provide pro bono services.
Board of Directors
Rodney A. Jerke, QC, President
Davidson & Williams (Lethbridge)
John T. Henderson, QC, Vice-President
Fraser Milner Casgrain (Edmonton)
Gillian D. Marriott, Treasurer
Dunphy Best Blocksom (Calgary)
Suzanne M. Alexander-Smith, Secretary
Chapman Riebeck (Red Deer)
Bruce Churchill-Smith
Borden Ladner Gervais (Calgary)
Doug H. McCallum
McCallum & Co (Lethbridge)
John H. Cuthbertson
Burnet Duckworth Palmer (Calgary)
Advisory Board
Rodney A. Jerke, QC, Chair
The Honourable Madam Justice M.S. Paperny
The Honourable Madam Justice J.M. Ross
The Honourable Judge A.H. Lefever
John C. Major, QC (Bennett Jones LLP)
Alan D. Hunter, QC (Code Hunter LLP)
Donald G. Bishop, QC (Bishop & Mackenzie LLP)
Cheryl C. Gottselig, QC (Burnet, Duckworth & Palmer LLP)
Phyllis A. Smith, QC (Emery Jamieson LLP)
Staff
Susan V.R. Billington, Executive Director
Pro Bono Law Alberta
Suite 500, 919 11th Avenue SW
Calgary, Alberta T2R 1P3
Tel: (403) 541-4840
www.pbla.ca
For more details, please visit the website at: www.pbla.ca
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