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Canadian Bar Association
The Canadian Bar Association is a professional, voluntary organization which was formed in 1896, and incorporated by a Special Act of Parliament on April 15, 1921. Today, the Association represents some 37,000 lawyers, judges, notaries, law teachers, and law students from across Canada. Approximately two-thirds of all practising lawyers in Canada belong to the CBA.
Canadian Bar Association - Nova Scotia Branch
The Canadian Bar Association - Nova Scotia is the voice of the legal profession in Nova Scotia, representing lawyers, judges, law teachers and law students throughout the province. The CBA plays a vital role in advancing the interests of its members by providing balanced and reasoned responses to many issues with which government and the legal profession is faced.
Customs and International Trade Bar Association
CITBA members represent United States importers, exporters and domestic producers with matters that involve the United States customs laws, anti-dumping and countervailing duty law, safeguards, export licensing, other miscellaneous international trade laws (e.g., GSP), and related laws and regulations of other U.S. federal agencies concerned with international commerce.
Inter-American Bar Association
The Inter-American Bar Association (IABA) is an association of individual members and bar associations in North America, Central America, the Caribbean and South America.
Inter-Pacific Bar Association
The Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) is an international association of business and commercial lawyers who live in, or otherwise have a strong interest in, the Asia-Pacific Region
International Bar Association
The International Bar Association (IBA), established in 1947, is the world’s leading organisation of international legal practitioners, bar associations and law societies. The IBA influences the development of international law reform and shapes the future of the legal profession throughout the world. It has a membership of more than 35,000 individual lawyers and 197 bar associations and law societies spanning all continents. It has considerable expertise in providing assistance to the global legal community.
Law Association for Asia and the Pacific
LAWASIA is an international organisation of lawyers’ associations, individual lawyers, judges, legal academics, and others which focuses on the interests and concerns of the legal profession in the Asia Pacific region. LAWASIA facilitates its members’ participation in the most dynamic economic region in the world. Since its inception in 1966, LAWASIA has built an enviable reputation among lawyers, business people and governments, both within and outside the region, as a committed, productive and genuinely representative organisation.
Law Society of Alberta, Canada
The Law Society of Alberta is the self governing body for Alberta's lawyers, whose mandate is to regulate the profession in the public interest. As a regulator, the LSA sets standards and enforces those standards for Alberta lawyers.
Law Society of British Columbia, Canada
The Law Society of British Columbia is the regulatory body for the British Columbia legal profession. The primary responsibility of the Law Society under the provincial Legal Profession Act is to protect the public interest in the administration of justice.
Law Society Of Manitoba, Canada
The Law Society of Manitoba web site has been developed for use by the Law Society's members and the public.
Law Society of New Brunswick, Canada
The website has been created to meet the growing demand for information about the Law Society of New Brunswick from both its members and the general public.
Law Society of Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada
The regulatory body for the legal profession in the Newfoundland & Labrador. Outlines their structure, member and student services, practice notes and publications.
Law Society of Nunavut, Canada
Governing body of the lawyers practicing in the Nunavut Territory Bar. The Law Society is responsible for regulating the legal profession in the public interest, according to Nunavut law and the Law Society's rules, policies and guidelines and the Canadian Bar Association's Code of Professional Conduct. The Law Society administers admission to the Bar, has oversight of lawyers’ trust funds and supervises their conduct through discipline and practice management.
Law Society of Prince Edward Island, Canada
The website provides information about the Law Society to members and potential members, and to the public. It includes documents and forms needed to become a member, and to practice in Prince Edward Island.
Law Society of Saskatchewan, Canada
The mission of Law Society of Saskatchewan is to govern the legal profession by upholding high standards of competence and integrity; ensuring the independence of the profession; advancing the administration of justice, the profession and the rule of law; all in the public interest.
