ALAS facilitates intake, scheduling lawyers and clients, reception, and providing space for lawyers and clients to meet, but ALAS does not provide legal advice and is not responsible for any information, advice or other guidance provided by the individual lawyers who meet with clients and discuss their issues at the appointments arranged by ALAS. Any online appointments via by Zoom are unencrypted and Internet-based and, as with such electronic data and communication, are subject to unlawful breaches or interceptions by others as well as some forms of lawful interception by state agents.

1. 1. Artists and Lawyers for the Advancement of Creativity (ALAC), operating as Artists’ Legal Advice Services (ALAS), facilitates the pro-bono ALAS Legal Clinic service whereby volunteer lawyers provide summary legal information to creators working in all disciplines
2. 2. During my appointment with the ALAS Legal Clinic, a volunteer lawyer will meet with me and discuss my legal matter on a confidential basis, but will not provide me with legal services after our meeting.
3. 3. ALAS and its volunteer lawyers only provide summary legal information through the Legal Clinic, not legal advice, and I will not receive legal advice as part of my clinic appointment.
4. 4. The volunteer lawyer I meet with is responsible for the summary legal information given to me at my appointment.
5. 5. My meeting with a particular volunteer lawyer at the ALAS Legal Clinic will not form an ongoing lawyer-client relationship between me and that particular volunteer lawyer. Neither ALAS nor any of its volunteer lawyers are or will be my lawyer, or have agreed to represent me.
6. 6. If my issue involves a dispute or an agreement, or any other matter or document involving persons with potentially conflicting interests, I must provide the names of the other parties in advance of your appointment so that I will not be scheduled to meet with a lawyer who would be unable to advise me because of a previous dealing or other connection with another party. That lawyer must have the right to withdraw from providing advice in matters where such a conflict of interest becomes apparent, even if during a scheduled appointment.
7. 7. It is not ALAS’ policy for the lawyer on duty to look at documents in advance of my appointment, and no document review or research is expected of the lawyer on duty. However, if there is any documentation relevant to my appointment then I may send it to alasontario@gmail.com (as soon as possible, preferably several days prior to the day of the appointment), and the volunteer lawyer may endeavour, time permitting and at their own election, to look at any short documents or particular contract clauses I provide.
8. 8. All appointments are in person except in unusual circumstances and if previously arranged.
9. 9. Only my name and identifying contact information may be preserved by ALAS for the purpose of administrative record keeping. ALAS has no obligation to keep records. The lawyer that I meet may keep their own confidential record including identifying contact information, any notes, documents or information related to the summary legal information they provide to me, but they are under no obligation to make or preserve such a record.
10. 10. By proceeding with your request to receive advice from ALAS duty counsel by Zoom meeting ,rather than in person, you are accepting that Zoom is unencrypted and Internet-based and, as with such electronic data and communication, it is subject to unlawful breaches or interceptions by others as well as some forms of lawful interception by state agents.

1. 1. Neither ALAS nor any of its volunteers (including lawyers) may be held responsible for any action I take as a result of any summary legal information provided to me during my appointment, or for any legal advice that is or should have been provided during my appointment or afterwards, or for any any unauthorized breaches or interceptions of electronic data or communications including (without limitation) advice provided via Zoom.
2. 2. In consideration of the free summary legal information and other services which I am provided by the ALAS legal clinic (including but not limited to the free use of the premises where the clinic is held), I hereby release ALAS, its volunteer lawyers, board of directors, student volunteers, and any and all other parties together with all of their respective officers, employees and volunteers, from any and all claims whatsoever with respect to my appointment with the ALAS legal clinic (including for any information or advice that may or ought to be given during or after my appointment, for the use of the premises, and for any and all damages as a result of any unauthorized breaches or interceptions of such electronic data or communications).
3. 3. The volunteer lawyer I meet with will not always have time to obtain adequate details or context for my problem or question, and may not be able to review issues with me sufficiently in the time available for my appointment. As far as time and experience permit, the volunteer lawyer will provide whatever summary legal information they can to help me to analyse my problem, answer questions on issues, and advise me on steps that I might take to move towards a potential resolution on my own. The volunteer lawyer may additionally provide me with the names of sources for names of other lawyers whom you may wish to consult for more extensive or specialized advice.