Alison Ward
Lawyer
Community Advocate Support Line – CASL
Alison Ward has been a lawyer with the Community Advocate Support Line (“CASL”) at CLAS since 2010. Through CASL she works with community-based legal advocates around BC on poverty law issues. Her work ranges from case-specific legal advice and guidance, to working to improve systemic policy or procedural issues that affect all advocates.
Alison has a long history in social justice law. Before joining CLAS, she was a staff lawyer with Legal Aid BC for 16 years. At LABC, she practiced poverty law, family law and child protection law, worked at the LawLINE and, in 2006, founded CASL. In 2010, Alison and CASL moved to CLAS.
Alison regularly teaches advocacy training workshops for the Law Foundation’s Legal Advocacy Training Course and Provincial Advocacy Training Conference. She is a board member of PovNet, a non-profit that organizes online communities for anti-poverty workers,
Alison graduated from McGill University with a BA in economics and obtained her Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto in 1992. She was called to the BC Bar in 1994.