Look up contact information for lawyers and law firms
law-society-api
The law society database is a directory to look up information on lawyers and law firms to use within your service.
On this page
Background
There is an existing Information Sharing Agreement between the Provincial Court, the Court of Queen’s Bench, the Ministry of Justice and Solicitor General, and the Law Society of Alberta for sharing for:
- Providing access to court administration services
- Scheduling court proceedings
- Communicating information regarding court administration, judicial administration, and other matters of general importance to the legal profession.
This micro-service provides an authority for this information to ensure that it is the same for all systems that need to use it.
Using the shared service
When to use
Use this service to verify the identity of lawyers and delegate access to legal assistants and law students. Also used to associate law firm to specific lawyers.
Any application that uses lawyers and or legal assistants would benefit from this shared service.
When not to use
This service would not be relevant if you do not fall within the following:
- Providing access to court administration services
- Scheduling court proceedings
- Communicating information regarding court administration, judicial administration, and other matters of general importance to the legal profession.
Privacy
The Bar ID is information that is sensitive, and should not be public.
How to access
Testing environment
Access the dev environment to try out and test this shared service within your context and to determine if it fills your need.
Production access
To request access to the production environment: email your request to JSG.PlatformSupport@gov.ab.ca
Examples
How it’s used
Court case management digital service
Derek Osadiuk - Digital architect
Chrissy Parkinson - Product owner
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Filing digital service
Ronald Garcia - Digital architect
Helen Maze - Product owner
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Additional documentation
Support
Need help? Connect with us on Slack
#jd-shared-services General information and discussion related to justice shared services including questions, new shared service proposals, contribution, and other requests.
You can also email the justice platform team at JSG.PlatformSupport@gov.ab.ca