Everyone Legal Clinic

Launched in May 2022, the Everyone Legal Clinic serves as an experiential learning centre for articling students, and as a solo and small firm incubator for practitioners who provide affordable legal services to underserved communities across BC. The Clinic engages dozens of professional mentors, and employs 16 supervising lawyers and two administrators to remotely train, supervise and support 45 articling students (four cohorts; 80% #BIPOC; 24% #Indigenous) over two years (each articling year having two six-month semesters). The Clinic aims to: –– Increase access to affordable and high quality legal services in communities throughout BC; –– Increase professional capacity for public interest legal service throughout BC; –– Provide a new generation of BC legal service providers with the substantive knowledge and practical skills required to thrive in highly adaptive forms of public-minded legal practice; –– Improve equity, diversity, working conditions and quality of education in BC’s lawyer and notary training systems, and reduce unmet need for articling positions in BC; –– Promote new virtual, fixed fee and modular forms of legal practice.