Mark Benton
Legal Aid BC CEO
Vancouver
Mark has been a lawyer since 1980, and CEO of Legal Aid BC (British Columbia’s legal aid provider) since 2002.
His legal experience includes small office practice, legal aid work, appellate advocacy, and four years as an adjunct professor at the UBC Faculty of Law. He is past-chair of the Association of Legal Aid Plans of Canada, is a Canadian Forum for Civil Justice board member, and is an active participant on a number of prominent government and non-government collaborations addressing access to justice issues of importance to Canadians.