Legal Clinic
A legal clinic is one on the many options IntegralOrg offers for getting assistance and information for your noprofit. Legal clinics are free of charge.
If you have a legal or law-related question about your nonprofit, a legal clinic is an opportunity to chat with a lawyer with decades of experience in the Alberta nonprofit sector.
Is a Legal Clinic Right for Your Organization?
In a legal clinic, you can get information about law-related issues like incorporating your organization, revising your bylaws, obtaining charitable status, creating policies, choosing a legal structure, or dissolving your organization.
How to Get Assistance
If you have a law-related question about your nonprofit, please click on the button below to fill out an intake form to help us detmermine how we can best be of service.
About Legal Clinics
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Legal clinics are typically scheduled on Thursdays. Depending on volume, your clinic may take up to four weeks to schedule.
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Multiple members of your team can attend the clinic.
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Clinics are one hour in length. We recommend asking about a single issue per clinic.
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Clinics are an opportunity to discuss legal issues related to your nonprofit. There are some issues that we are not able to assist with such as human resources/employment issues or litigation.
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We are able to discuss an issue, but are not able to offer specific legal advice. For legal advice, we recommend that you engage a lawyer.
Yvonne Chenier
In your legal clinic, you will be chatting with Yvonne Chenier
Yvonne is a lawyer and philanthropy consultant who brings more than 35 years of experience helping those in the philanthropic, nonprofit, and social enterprise sectors as general legal counsel and as an advisor on planning, organizational, regulatory and governance matters.