Access Pro Bono Launches Court Form Service

Access Pro Bono, the organization created by the merger of Pro Bono Law British Columbia and the Access Justice Society, has announced a new Paralegal Program under which paralegals supervised by a lawyer will give low-income Supreme Court litigants help drafting court documents. The program, sadly, is only for non-family law civil matters; less extensive help for family law cases can still be had from the self-help centre.

This is how the new service works:

• Each paralegal program will engage the volunteer services of two to four paralegals and one supervising lawyer
• The Law Courts Center will recruit, monitor and train the volunteer paralegals as needed and Access Pro Bono will recruit supervising lawyers as needed
• The supervising lawyer will directly supervise each client file at the Vancouver Justice Access Centre
  
• The supervising lawyer will be responsible for the legal advice and assistance provided by the paralegals
• Volunteer paralegals will each see a maximum of two clients per clinic and the program will serve a maximum of eight clients per day
  

If you are interested in this service, call 604-660-2084, or go in person to the Vancouver Justice Access Centre at 290-800 Hornby Street in Vancouver and ask to be booked into the Paralegal Program.