n Saturday, April 19, 2008, the Canadian Bar Association, BC Branch (CBABC) held its province-wide “Dial-A-Lawyer” program between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm. During that time, members of the public were invited to call and speak with a lawyer for up to 15 minutes. In 2008 we received 236 calls, 118 of those calls were directed to Chinese speaking lawyers who were recruited by S.U.C.C.E.S.S.

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We wish to thank the many lawyers who generously volunteer their time for this event.

"I enjoy participating in Dial-A-Lawyer day as the callers are for the most part very appreciative of our advice. I enjoy listening to each caller’s story, identifying the issues and discussing potential steps to be taken. The concept of a yearly free-legal-advice-day presents lawyers in a positive light.” John McGreevy, Dial-A-Lawyer volunteer since 2004.

Dial-A-Law Celebrates 25 Years
In 1983, the CBABC identified a need for public access to legal information on a variety of law topics. In collaboration with and funding from the Law Foundation of British Columbia, CBABC sponsored and initiated the Dial-A-Law program, which includes more than 125 scripts of legal information that are written and edited by volunteer lawyers in British Columbia.

In 2008, the Dial-A-Law program celebrated its 25th anniversary. The success of this program is because of the generous funding of the Law Foundation of British Columbia and the availability of Dial-A-Law scripts on the CBABC website and by telephone. We wish to thank the hundreds of lawyers who have generously volunteered their time to this program.