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January 18, 2019
Discover the New Law Society Website – About Us
The About Us section of the website contains foundational information about the Law Society, including: Mission, Vision, Values and Direction – See our 2019 – 2021 Strategic Plan for more information. Executive – The Executive Committee provides direction and oversight for the strategic and operational planning of the Law Society and develops agendas for Benchers meetings to ensure that the...
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January 17, 2019
Discover the New Law Society Website – Quicklinks Overview
As we mentioned in our post yesterday, three categories of Quicklinks have been added to the main page of the new Law Society website: Public, Lawyers & Students, and Resources and Support. We believe that these Quicklinks should eliminate approximately 80% of the site searches that occurred on the old site. In today’s post, we’d like to highlight specifically what...
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January 17, 2019
Update on Law Society Initiatives – December 2018 Convocation
By Barbra Bailey, Director of Policy Proactive Regulation of Law Firms The environment in which a lawyer practises can play a significant role in determining professional conduct, yet the entities through which lawyers provide services have been largely unregulated. To address this, The Legal Profession Act, 1990 was amended in 2014 to include firms as members of the Law Society....
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January 16, 2019
Discover the New Law Society Website – Overview of the Main Page
The Law Society launched our new updated website on January 11. Thank you for your patience as we work out a few bugs and for your feedback on future improvements. Please continue to provide feedback to webmaster@lawsociety.sk.ca. We will continue to provide updates as new improvements are implemented. Over the next several days, we will highlight specific changes and enhancements...
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December 13, 2018
New Law Society President and Vice President Elected
At Convocation on December 6, 2018, the Benchers elected Leslie Belloc-Pinder, as President, and Gerald Tegart, Q.C., as Vice President, for 2019. We congratulate our new President and Vice President and would like to thank our outgoing President, Craig Zawada, Q.C., for his tireless work in 2018. Please see our website for a full list of our newly elected Benchers....
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November 15, 2018
Collecting Demographic Data to Better Understand our Membership and Address Barriers in the Legal Profession
By Barbra Bailey, Director of Policy The Saskatchewan public is growing increasingly diverse. Data from the 2016 Census shows that 16.3% of Saskatchewan’s population self-identified as being Aboriginal, compared to 14.7% in 2006. Further, in 2016, 10.8% of Saskatchewan’s population identified as visible minorities, compared to 3.6% of the population in 2006. Immigrants and non-permanent residents accounted for 11.65% of...
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