OUR MISSION

Lead and support efforts to build a better justice community in Alberta

OUR OBJECTS

The Alberta Law Foundation was created in 1973 under the Legal Profession Act with the following objects:

  • Conducting research into and recommending reform of law and the administration of justice

  • Establishing, maintaining, and operating law libraries

  • Contributing to the legal education and knowledge of the people of Alberta and providing programs and facilities for those purposes

  • Providing assistance to Indigenous people’s legal programs, student legal aid programs, and programs of like nature

  • Contributing to the costs incurred by the Legal Aid Society of Alberta to administer a plan to provide legal aid. (This contribution has been legislated to be 50% of revenue from lawyers’ pooled trust accounts)