Alison Ward

Alison Ward is a lawyer at the Community Legal Assistance Society in Vancouver, where she runs a Law Foundation-funded program called the Community Advocate Support Line. She provides legal advice and support to community-based advocates in BC who assist clients with poverty law and family law problems. Alison was previously a staff lawyer at the Legal Services Society where she practiced poverty law and family law. In 2010, Alison and the Community Advocate Support Line moved to CLAS.

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Alison Ward

Alison Ward

Community Legal Assistance Society

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