WHERE DO YOU FIT?

New members are always welcome! Select the category most appropriate for you.

Students: Get your CBA membership for only $20 in most jurisdictions (free in Ontario, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Saskatchewan, and Yukon). Available to a person enrolled in undergraduate studies in law at a recognized Canadian Law school or is a Canadian citizen studying at a recognized foreign law faculty or has been accepted at the NCA to pursue NCA accreditation or is enrolled in full time studies required by a law society, in order to be called to the bar in Canada.

Articling and Bar Admission Students: Get 70% off your CBA membership. Available to individuals articling with a Canadian law firm or enrolled in a Bar Admissions course (admission to first Canadian law society).

New Lawyers: Get 55% off your CBA membership. Available to lawyers in their first three years of call.

Regular: A lawyer, Quebec notary or judge who has been called to a Canadian Bar. A law professor with a recognized Canadian law degree who is working at a recognized law school in Canada. Judicial members have the right to attend all meetings of the Association and to have a deliberative voice therein but do not have the right to vote, hold office or propose or second resolutions, except as permitted in the Bylaws or Regulations.

Scholar: Get 70% off your CBA membership. Available to individuals eligible under another membership category but currently undertaking full-time graduate legal studies at a recognized law school or Bar Admission studies to be admitted to another Canadian law society.

Retired: Get 45% off your CBA membership. Available to lawyers, Quebec notaries or judges aged 60 years or more, or who have been members in good standing of the Bar or Law Society for 20 years or more, and who have retired by resigning from the Law Society or the Bench.

Associate: Get 45% off your CBA membership. Available to individuals in good standing of a Bar or Law Society outside Canada, and not otherwise eligible for membership under another CBA membership category.  Proof of international designation must be supplied. 

Non-Practicing lawyers: Get 50% off your CBA membership. Eligibility is based on provincial/territorial law societies recognition of non-practicing status.

Part-Time lawyers: Get 50% off your CBA membership. Eligibility is based on provincial/territorial law society or insurer recognition of part-time status; currently, only the Alberta Law Society, the Law Society of British Columbia and the Law Society of Ontario recognize part-time status.