BC lawyers
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Annual Practice Declaration
Change contact information
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) credits
Law firm registration (click on “Skip Notifications” then scroll down to “Law firm information”)
Locum and Succession Registries
Mortgage discharge failures reporting form
Proof of Indemnity Certificate (click on "Skip Notifications" then scroll down to Proof of Indemnity Certificate)
Trust administration fee invoices
Trust Report filing
Member status change
Information Sheet: Non-Practising Membership
Application for Non-Practising Membership (Login to Member Portal, locate the “Applications” section under “My Settings” and click on “Membership Category Change”)
Application for Non-Practising Membership for Reinstating Members
Information Sheet: Returning to practice
Application for Returning to practice
Information Sheet: Reinstatement of Membership
Application for Reinstatement of Membership
Information Sheet: Retired Membership
Application for Retired Membership (Login to Member Portal, locate the “Applications” section under “My Settings” and click on “Membership Category Change”)
Application for Retired Membership for Reinstating Members
Information Sheet: Withdrawal from Practice and Termination of Membership
Reporting for Termination of Membership (Login to Member Portal, locate the “Applications” section under “My Settings” and click on “Membership Category Change”)
Information for lawyers who are suspended
Lawyer indemnification
Information sheet: Applying for coverage
Information sheet: What’s covered?
Information sheet: Pro Bono Services
Application for Compulsory Professional Liability Indemnification (Full-time practice)
Application for Compulsory Professional Liability Indemnification (Part-time practice)
Application for Exemption from Professional Liability Indemnification
Trust assurance
Trust Report filing
Confirmation of Law Foundation of BC Interest Remittance Form
Payment of Unclaimed Trust Money to the Law Society
Schedule 3 – Declaration of Insolvent Lawyer
Requisition – Electronic transfer of trust funds (valid starting July 1, 2018)
Trust administration fee invoices
Opening new trust account sample letter Word | PDF
Law corporations
Information Sheet: Incorporation of a Law Practice
Application for incorporation
Lawyers outside BC
Information sheets
Practitioners of Foreign Law
Temporary Practice in British Columbia
Transfer to British Columbia
Applications
Practitioner of Foreign Law Permit
Certificate of Character (Practitioner of Foreign Law Permit) (supporting document)
Renewal: Practitioner of Foreign Law Permit
Inter-Jurisdictional Practice Permit
Transfer to British Columbia
Transfer to BC as Canadian Legal Advisor
Certificate of Character (supporting document)
Statutory Declaration re Transfer Reading Requirement (supporting document)
Students
Information sheets
Law Society Admission Program
Reductions in the Articling Term and Credit for PLTC
NCA Certificate of Qualification
Articling FAQs
Assignment of Articles
Temporary Articles
Application forms
Law Society Admission Program Enrolment
Professional Legal Training Course Registration
Articling Agreement (supporting document)
Articling Skills and Practice Checklist (supporting document)
Reduction in Articling Term
Assignment of Articles Agreement
Declaration of Previous Principal (supporting document)
Temporary Articles Enrolment
Temporary Articles Agreement (supporting document)
Law clerks
Information sheets
Law Clerks - Alternate Pathway to Licensing
Application forms
Law Clerk – Call and Admission
Professional Legal Training Course Registration