Effective January 1st 2012, the Legal Resource Centre has changed its operating name to the Centre for Public Legal Education of Alberta (CPLEA).
We believe our new name better reflects our identity and purpose as a public legal education (PLE) organization.
Visit us at our new location in the Ironwood building at:
#800, 10050 - 112 Street
Edmonton, AB T5K 2J1
These three national portals for law and justice resources and services, are electronic clearinghouses that brings together law-related services and information and educational resources on justice and legal issues of interest to Albertans and Canadians. The portals use technologies to create and distribute products and services and to facilitate broad base consultations. LawCentral Canada/Français is the only nationwide service dedicated to making law and justice resources available to all Canadians in either official language.
A-Link is an online directory of organizations and agencies in Alberta that offer legal information services to the public. It is currently accessible through the home page of LawCentral Alberta and the Alberta Justice website.
Canadian Legal FAQs is an online encyclopaedia of over 1,000 answers to frequently asked questions on 25 legal topics, including abuse, copyright, family law, real estate, residential tenancies, and wills and estates. This site is currently being redesigned to improve the search, navigation and access to information, and to provide links to related topics.
LawNow is a suite of print and online resources that provide unique insights into changing social conditions by examining and reflecting on contemporary issues from the perspective of the law. It is a resource about the law, the legal process, and their relationship to life in Canada. It consists of a bi-monthly magazine, a bi-weekly email legal updating service, and a website of current and archived issues. LawNow is available through subscriptions to the print magazine or the full suite of print and online services, via site licenses, and through large online databases such as ProQuest.
Staff from LawCentral or other core LRC services respond to email and telephone queries from site visitors. The questioner is given the specific link to the information on the web, or is referred to other services in the province or country that may be able to help them.
Staff present training sessions at teacher’s conventions, library meetings, law-related conferences, and for special groups such as the staff from women’s shelters across Alberta. The topic and approach of the session is tailored to the specific group.
The LRC works with a wide variety of other public legal education providers as well as with government, non-profits, to share information and resources and to provide support. The LRC also provides technical support to small non-profit organizations for the maintenance of their website at a rate much lower than they would have to pay in the private sector.
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