80 ARTICLE KUTAFIN UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW CANADIAN MODEL FOR CENTRALIZED DELIVERY OF LEGAL SERVICES AND ITS APPLICATION IN RUSSIA By Sergey Kabyshev Author PhD (Law), Academy of Management, Interior Ministry of Russia, 1992 Associate Professor, Kutafi n Moscow State Law University E-mail: svkabyshev@gmail.com Abstract This article presents a model for the delivery of legal services by Canada’s Department of Justice and demonstrates the advantage of a centralized delivery of legal services for the effectiveness of the government activity and for fulfi lling the needs of the consumers. <...> In 1966, all the lawyers who were public servants became employees of the Department of Justice. <...> The integration made it possible: to enhance the quality and timeliness of the legal services; to ensure the independence and neutrality of the government lawyers (they are currently employed by the Minister of Justice and their career does not depend on the heads of the client departments); to offer wider career opportunities for the lawyers (to provide them with more interesting jobs, higher salaries, professional development); to abate the trend towards issuing opinions of an overly academic nature, as staff turnover ensures better knowledge of the real situation (normally a lawyer stays with one client department for about three years); to ensure consistency of all legal opinions by various government bodies; to optimize expenses. <...> Analysis of the Canadian experience, as it applies to certain executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, allows one to make a www.kulawr.ru Volume 1 September 2014 Issue 1 Sergey Kabyshev Canadian Model for Centralized Delivery of Legal Services 81 conclusion about the applicability of the Canadian model for centralized delivery of legal services in Russia both at the federal and regional levels. <...> Keywords Canada’s Department of Justice, model of centralized delivery of legal services, assessment of legal services’ quality, criteria of satisfaction with the legal services, application of foreign experience anniversary of the Russian Constitution, Prime-Minister Dmitry Medvedev wrote an article concerning the Basic Law, government functions, and effi cient public administration technologies. <...> In his opinion, the most important questions in this fi eld is “…how to avoid distortion of the political, economic, and social content of a legal act in the process of its going through the multistage legislative process, and, what is even <...>