Student Resources – Law Society of Alberta

We offer a variety of resources for you as a Student-at-Law in your journey to the Bar.

Articling Placement Program	The Articling Placement Program assists articling students who are in untenable or unsafe articles due to harassment or discrimination with exiting their current position and finding replacement articles. The program supports the articling student with exiting their current position and continuing their articles with a new firm/organization.
Beginning Again: Internationally Trained Lawyers Christine’s Story Christiana’s Story Nick’s Story	First and foremost, ITLs and ITLGs without a Canadian common law degree must have their education and experience evaluated by the National Committee on Accreditation (NCA).
Rising to the Challenge	The elation of finishing law school can be quickly overshadowed by the seemingly disproportionate law student to articling position ratio. As a result, students are finding creative ways to meet the articling requirement.
What can a Student-at-law do?	You will see that the right to give legal advice and appear before courts turns upon being a lawyer, barrister, solicitor, member of the bar, advocate, avocat, attorney, agent, counsel or officer of the court.