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This is part of a series of blog posts celebrating National Volunteer Week. For more information on volunteer opportunities, please visit our website.
The Public Legal Education Association of Saskatchewan (PLEA), plea.org, was incorporated in 1980 as a non-profit, non-government organization that exists to educate, inform and empower through law-related education. The organization is funded by the Law Foundation of Saskatchewan, with additional funding from the Department of Justice Canada. Project and other forms of support come from Justice Canada, the Saskatchewan Ministry of Justice, the Law Society of Saskatchewan, the Canadian Bar Association, University of Saskatchewan College of Law, Legal Aid Saskatchewan, and the Saskatoon Public Library, as well as public libraries and regional colleges throughout the province.
PLEA can help members of the public by providing general legal information, suggesting resources, and telling people about different options for obtaining legal advice. PLEA can help people…
*satisfy a general interest in law
*become familiar with areas of the law that most affect them
*make use of legal resources available in the community
PLEA provides legal information through websites, print material, telephone and email lines, a Request a Speaker Program, and a Teachers and Schools Program.
PLEA provides understandable, useful information to the people of Saskatchewan. To accomplish its mandate, PLEA relies on volunteer lawyers to speak at presentations throughout Saskatchewan and assist us in various other ways.
Contact us if you are a Saskatchewan lawyer and interested in volunteering to…
PLEA also welcomes lawyers to join the roster of practitioners assisting with our Listen Project, listen.plea.org. This project provides victims of sexual violence with up to four hours (two hours initially) of free legal advice or information from a roster lawyer.
We look forward to hearing from you!