Grants Approved
HSBC Bank Canada
Law Foundation Chair, Mary Mouat, commends HSBC Bank Canada (“HSBC”) for its commitment to paying one of the most competitive rates of return on lawyers’ pooled trust accounts. This ensures HSBC a top spot on the Law Foundation’s preferred list of financial institutions for lawyers pooled trust accounts.

During these unprecedented times, with interest rates at a record low, HSBC voluntarily stepped forward, as was done in the past, with a new agreement that set it above other financial institutions in the rate of return paid to the Foundation. Thanks go to Roderick (Rory) J.R. Langran, Assistant Vice President, Global Payments and Cash Management, for the leadership shown in making this new agreement possible.

Increased revenues enable the Law Foundation to fund programs that make the justice system accessible to British Columbians. The funded programs include professional legal education, public legal education, law reform, legal research, legal aid and law libraries.

The Canadian Bar Association B.C. Branch, the Law Foundation, and the Law Society encourage lawyers to consider which financial institutions provide the best support to the Law Foundation when deciding where to place their trust accounts.

Vancouver City Savings Credit Union
Law Foundation Chair, Mary Mouat, commends Vancouver City Savings (“Vancity”) for its commitment to paying one of the most competitive rates of return on lawyers’ pooled trust accounts. This ensures Vancity a top spot on the Law Foundation’s preferred list of financial institutions for lawyers pooled trust accounts.

During these unprecedented times, with interest rates at a record low, Vancity voluntarily stepped forward, as was done in the past, with a new agreement that set it above other financial institutions in the rate of return paid to the Foundation. Thanks go to Catherine Ludgate, Manager Community Business Banking, for the leadership shown in making this new agreement possible.

Increased revenues enable the Law Foundation to fund programs that make the justice system accessible to British Columbians. The funded programs include professional legal education, public legal education, law reform, legal research, legal aid and law libraries.

The Canadian Bar Association B.C. Branch, the Law Foundation, and the Law Society encourage lawyers to consider which financial institutions provide the best support to the Law Foundation when deciding where to place their trust accounts.

Law Foundation of British Columbia
Graduate Fellowships 2010/2011
VALUE: Up to five (5) Awards of $13,750 each (subject to change).

CLOSING DATE: January 8, 2010.

FIELD OF STUDY/ ELIGIBILITY: Full-time graduate studies in law or a law-related area. Applicants must either be residents of British Columbia; graduates of a British Columbia law school; or members of the British Columbia Bar.

WHERE TENABLE: Recognized universities in Canada, the U.S. or abroad. NOTE: The Law Foundation Graduate Fellowship is not available for the graduate programs of the Faculties of Law at the University of British Columbia and the University of Victoria as the Law Foundation makes separate grants to the Graduate Fellowship programs at these universities.

APPLICATIONS: Please visit our website, www.lawfoundationbc.org or contact us at Law Foundation of B.C., 1340 – 605 Robson Street, Vancouver, B.C. V6B 5J3 / Tel. 604-688-2337 / Email lfbc@tlfbc.org for an application form or further information.

This article was published in the October 2009 issue of BarTalk. © 2009 The Canadian Bar Association. All rights reserved.