Services for Students
If you wish to become a member of the legal profession in Alberta, you must be of good character and reputation, meet the academic qualifications, successfully complete a bar admission course and serve a term of articles.
See sections 37(1) and 40(1) of the Legal Profession Act.
You must have obtained a Canadian common law degree or an equivalent qualification, after which you may then apply for student-at-law status.
The Law Society of Alberta admission program requires completion of an articling term (usually a 12-month period) and successful completion of the CPLED course (Centre for Professional Legal Education). If you have completed a term of clerkship with the courts, your articling term may be reduced to a five-month requirement.