[[image:Consumer_and_Debt_Law_cover_image.jpg|thumb|275px|right|<span style="font-size:50%;">Image via www.istock.com</span>]] [[imageFile:alisonward.jpg|thumb|150px|left|link=|Alison Ward]] '''Alison Ward''' is a lawyer at the [http://www.clasbc.net/ Community Legal Assistance Society] in Vancouver, where she runs a Law Foundation-funded program called the Community Advocate Support Line. She provides legal advice and support to community-based advocates in BC who assist clients with poverty law and family law problems. Alison was previously a staff lawyer at the Legal Services Society (1994 – 2010) where she practiced poverty law and family law.