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The Law Society of Alberta (LSA) is the self-regulating body for lawyers in Alberta, Canada, established in 1907 [2] which derives its authority from the Legal Profession Act of the Government of Alberta. [4] Its main office is located in Calgary. As of 2023, there were 11,000 legal practitioners in Alberta regulated by the LSA. [5]
The Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association (ACTLA) is a non-profit society established in 1986 under the laws of the Province of Alberta, Canada. [1] Its members are principally civil trial lawyers who are members of the Law Society of Alberta .
The Federation of Law Societies of Canada (French: Fédération des ordres professionnels de juristes du Canada) is the national association of the 14 Canadian regulators of the legal profession. The 14 law societies are mandated by the provinces and territories to regulate the legal profession in the public interest.
Lawyers develop their plans and declare to the Law Society of Alberta on an annual basis that these are complete. The Legal Education Society of Alberta [10] provides tools to facilitate compliance with these requirements. In Ontario the Law Society of Upper Canada, [11] beginning in 2010, instituted mandatory CPD hours for all lawyers in the ...
A bar association is a professional association of lawyers as generally organized in countries following the Anglo-American types of jurisprudence. [1] The word bar is derived from the old English/European custom of using a physical railing (bar) to separate the area in which court or legal profession business is done from the viewing area for the general public or students of the law.
The national office of the Canadian Bar Association is located in Ottawa.With a staff of 80, the national office provides legislative monitoring and liaison (60 - 70 submissions are made federally each year), membership, continuing legal education, translation, meeting coordination, accounting, data processing, communications, printing, and professional services.
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