The Canadian Bar Association’s Legal Aid Liaison Committee is pleased to announce Jeannette Savoie as a recipient of the Legal Aid Leader Award.
Ms. Savoie is a staff lawyer with the Legal Services Board in the Northwest Territories at their Community Legal Aid Clinic in Yellowknife. Without Ms. Savoie’s volunteerism and active engagement in expanding the role of the bar in servicing acute access to justice issues across the North, it is without question that legal aid services in the territory would be far worse than they are today.
In addition to her work at the clinic, Ms. Savoie has worked in partnership with aboriginal communities and the Legal Aid Commission to conduct fly-in poverty law clinics and other mobile legal clinics for people in nearly every community outside of Yellowknife in the Northwest Territories. In doing so, Ms. Savoie has increased access to justice for remote and isolated communities that have no resident lawyers.
The inspiration she provides to others to strive to improve access to justice for all makes us thrilled to recognize Ms. Savoie as a CBA Legal Aid Leader.