APB will launch a new “low bono” project tentatively named the Commercial Trial Assistance Project in the next few months.  Read the APB Executive Director's description of the unique Project in his regular Slaw.ca column.

The first of its kind in Canada, the Commercial Trial Assistance Project will engage several large Vancouver law firms in providing pro bono legal consultations and subsequent reduced-rate legal representation at trial to middle-income commercial litigants.  The participating BC law firms include:

• Blakes;
• Borden Ladner Gervais;
• Bull Housser;
• Farris;
• Fasken Martineau;
• Gowlings;
• Hunter Litigation Chambers;
• Lawson Lundell; and
• McCarthy Tétrault.