How are community legal clinics related to Legal Aid Ontario?
LAO is a funder of clinics. Student legal clinics are housed in each Ontario law school. In addition, 80 community legal clinics exist throughout the province. The work that clinics do varies somewhat from clinic to clinic. Core service areas include landlord/tenant, income security (Ontario Works, Ontario Disability Support Payments, Canada Pension Plan, Employment Insurance), law reform and community development. Several speciality clinics offer services to a particular cultural community, or in a particular area of law. How do I apply for a job in a clinic? As clinics are independent organizations, they hire students separately. Most clinics sent LAO their job postings, and are posted on the LAO website, and send their postings to law schools. The specific clinics that hire summer and articling students varies from year to year. For the 2010/11 articling term, the following clinics will be hiring articling students: • Parkdale Community Legal Services (Toronto) • Legal Assistance of
