Organization

Staffing

Legal Aid Saskatchewan is currently one of the only staff-based legal aid plans in Canada. In the 2024-2025 fiscal year, staff lawyers handled 82% of full-service cases. Private bar lawyers handled the remainder, usually due to conflicts of interest from past service or staff vacancies. As of March 31, 2025 LAS had 186 staff positions located in 14 offices throughout the province. LAS has a unionized workplace, with 82.8% of staff represented by CUPE Local 1949. Managers and out-of-scope staff comprise the remaining 17.2%.

LAS is committed to hiring practices that will assist our organization in meeting the employment equity goals set by the Saskatchewan Human Rights Commission (SHRC) as follows:

Legal Aid Saskatchewan supports the values of inclusion and accessibility. We are committed to improving accessibility and promoting the full and equal participation of persons with disabilities as outlined in the Legal Aid Saskatchewan Accessibility Plan. We value your feedback and welcome members of the public to submit comments about our accessibility plan by emailing headoffice@legalaid.sk.ca.

Organizational Structure

Legal Aid Saskatchewan is composed of 13 Area Offices (plus 1 Head Office) in 11 communities across Saskatchewan. Each office serves clients within a certain geographical boundary and each office, although governed by broad policies, is independently operated and adapts to the communities it serves. 

The organizational structure is as follows: