The model

How Canna Law works with attorneys.

The distinction matters legally, so it is stated plainly here rather than buried in terms.

Canna Law is not a law firm

We operate the membership platform: intake, routing, records, compliance tools and case tracking. We do not practise law, we do not give legal advice, and no attorney–client relationship arises from reading anything on this site or from a membership alone.

Attorneys are independent

Panel attorneys are independent practitioners. They are engaged by you, they carry their own Legal Practice Council enrolment and fidelity fund certificate, and they exercise their own professional judgement. Membership does not make an attorney an employee of Canna Law.

Legal work is paid directly

Legal fees for work beyond your plan benefits are quoted and billed by the attorney handling the matter, paid to that attorney's practice — never into a Canna Law account for onward payment. Your membership fee buys access and platform services.

The rules we build around

These points are drawn from the Legal Practice Act and the Legal Practice Council's conduct rules. They are operational commitments, not legal advice about your own matter.

Fee sharing and referral arrangements with unqualified persons are restricted under the Legal Practice Act 28 of 2014; the platform is built so that legal fees flow to the attorney, not through us.
Advertising by attorneys is regulated: no guarantees of outcome, no claims of superiority, no misleading comparisons. This site follows the same discipline.
Confidentiality belongs to the attorney–client relationship. Privileged notes in the platform are readable only by the assigned attorney — not by Canna Law administrators.
Attorneys must keep client money in a trust account and issue a proper fee statement. If you are ever asked to pay legal fees into anything other than the attorney's practice account, stop and tell us.
Complaints about an attorney go to the Legal Practice Council; complaints about the platform come to us first and we will tell you plainly what we can and cannot fix.

For attorneys joining the panel

Panel membership requires an LPC enrolment number and confirmation of good standing and fidelity fund status before your profile is shown publicly. The check is repeated, not assumed.

See the panel

General information, not legal advice. Canna Law does not practise law and does not give legal advice. A professional relationship is formed only with the attorney you engage, on that attorney's terms.