Exploring Stakeholder: "Law Societies"

The Law Society of British Columbia ensures the public is well served by legal professionals who are honourable and competent.We regulate the legal profession in BC, protecting the public interest in the administration of justice by setting and enforcing standards of professional conduct for lawyers. We also bring a voice to issues affecting the justice system and...

“The Law Society of Alberta regulates the legal profession in the public interest by promoting and enforcing a high standard of professional and ethical conduct by Alberta lawyers… While we do not provide legal advice on specific cases, from our unique perspective as the regulator, we actively work with members of the justice system to improve...

The Law Society of Manitoba states: “Our mission is to protect the public interest by ensuring that Manitoba lawyers practice ethically and competently”. They are the province’s “regulator of the legal profession”, and; they seek to increase Manitoban’s access to legal services, and, to equity and diversity within law practices, and; to “proactively protect the public interest...

“The Law Society of Ontario regulates Ontario’s lawyers and paralegals in the public interest by ensuring that the people of Ontario are served by lawyers and paralegals who meet high standards of learning, competence and professional conduct. The Law Society has a duty to protect the public interest, to maintain and advance the cause of justice and...

The Law Society of Yukon is authorized by the Legal Profession Act, 2017 to regulate the practice of law and the legal profession in the public interest in the Yukon Territory. It protects the public interest in the administration of justice by setting and enforcing standards of learning, competence, and professional conduct for lawyers. The Law Society of Yukon...

The Law Society of the Northwest Territories’ mandate is “to ensure the public is well served by a legal profession that is independent, responsible and responsive…It Is a self-governing Society… responsible for governing the legal profession in the public interest … It is our responsibility to ensure that the people of the Northwest Territories are served by lawyers who...

The Law Society of Saskatchewan has the responsibility, pursuant to The Legal Profession Act, 1990, to “govern the legal profession in the province… in the public interest.”  Our independence from the government is primary to our mission; it is important to the administration of justice and is fundamental to maintaining a free and democratic society that...