This page is an unofficial summary prepared for readers who do not read Bulgarian. In case of any discrepancy, the Bulgarian text of the Statute prevails.
Chapter One — General provisions
The association is a voluntary, independent and autonomous non-governmental organisation established under the Non-Profit Legal Entities Act, named „ПРАВО ЗА ВСИЧКИ“ / Association “LAW FOR ALL”. It carries out activity for public benefit, has its seat in Varna, Bulgaria, and is established for an indefinite term. Branches may be opened and closed by decision of the General Assembly; they are not separate legal entities.
Chapter Two — Mission, goals, means and scope of activity
Mission (Art. 6 (1)). To ensure that no one in Bulgaria gives up on exercising or defending their lawful rights for lack of money, knowledge or physical access to legal help, turning the law from a privilege into a publicly accessible service.
Goals (Art. 6 (2)). Access to justice for vulnerable people; rule of law, transparency and fairness in commercial, civil, utility and employment relations; development and scaling of LegalTech tools; legal and digital literacy; a freely accessible national knowledge base; and strategic public-interest litigation against systemic violations by monopolies, financial institutions and unfair employers.
Means (Art. 7). Building and securing a dedicated digital platform for legal guidance, automated audit and pro bono assistance; AI and machine-learning tools for rapid legal risk assessment, detection of unfair consumer contract terms and document generation; seminars, training, conferences and hackathons; independent analyses and legislative proposals; cooperation with national and international organisations, funds, institutions, academia and business; and automated referral of vulnerable people to lawyers willing to work pro bono under the Bar Act, following a methodology approved by the Management Board.
Ancillary economic activity (Art. 8). A hybrid (freemium) model: free basic services for citizens and paid services for professionals — B2B LegalTech and compliance tools, corporate subscriptions to analytical modules, professional training, and consultancy, research, publishing, translation and advertising services. All revenue is used solely for self-sustainability, technology development and the public-benefit goals.
Chapter Three — Membership
Membership is voluntary and open to individuals with legal capacity and legal entities. There are full members (who constitute the General Assembly, one vote each; admitted by a two-thirds majority of all members) and associate members (admitted by the Management Board upon written application; they may attend the General Assembly with an advisory voice but do not vote and do not count towards quorum).
Duties include observing the Statute and Code of Ethics, paying membership fees and any property contributions, and maintaining strict confidentiality over personal data of people seeking help, algorithms, internal analyses and software. Personal data is processed under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and the Bulgarian Personal Data Protection Act.
Membership ends by written notice, by death or full interdiction (or dissolution of a member legal entity), by expulsion, or by lapse (non-payment for 12 months or persistent non-participation), in each case with a right of appeal to the General Assembly within one month. On termination, no contributions or fees are refunded and no share of the assets or digital assets may be claimed.
Chapter Four — Governance
General Assembly — the supreme body; convened by the Management Board or at the request of one third of the members, at least once a year, with a 15-day notice posted at the seat. It amends the Statute and internal acts, admits full members, elects and removes the Management Board and its Chair, decides on branches, transformation and dissolution, adopts the strategy, budget, financial statement, activity report and Impact Report, and may annul decisions of other bodies. Quorum is more than half of the members; if not met, the meeting is held one hour later regardless of attendance. Decisions are taken by a majority of those present, with a two-thirds majority for amendments to the Statute, transformation and dissolution, and a two-thirds majority of all members for admitting full members, property contributions and gratuitous disposals under Art. 26 (2).
Management Board — three members elected for five years, re-electable. It implements the Assembly’s decisions, disposes of the assets, prepares the budget and reports, adopts internal rules (including on pro bono selection and rotation and on data protection and encryption), admits and expels associate members, creates advisory structures, and may adopt framework decisions defining in advance the types, purposes, value limits and conditions of transactions the Chair may carry out alone.
Chair — represents the association individually; convenes and chairs Board meetings; runs day-to-day operations; signs contracts and financial documents within the budget, internal rules and Board decisions; opens and manages bank and payment accounts pursuant to a Board decision; exercises employer rights; administers national, European and international funding; and reports to the Board monthly. The Chair may not take decisions reserved to the Board or the General Assembly.
Board meetings may be held in person or entirely by video conference, and decisions may be adopted without a meeting if the minutes are signed without objection by all members, including with a qualified electronic signature. A member with a personal or professional interest — including any risk of referring people to their own private practice — must declare the conflict and abstain.
Advisory structures. Pro Bono Expert Council; Digitalisation and LegalTech Committee; Ethics Committee. They have analytical, advisory and development roles only.
Chapter Five — Assets, transparency and control
Assets come from membership fees and contributions, donations, national, European and international grants, corporate sponsorship, revenue from the ancillary economic activity and other lawful sources, and are spent solely on the statutory goals.
An annual public Impact Report is published on the association’s platform, covering: people served and automated audits completed; documents, complaints and objections generated; money actually saved by citizens; complex cases referred to pro bono lawyers; and the coverage and traffic of the national knowledge base. It does not replace the statutory annual activity report filed with the register.
Referral to lawyers — including lawyers who are founders, members or officers of the association — is carried out in a fully transparent way that excludes human discretion, based on an objective methodology approved in advance by the Management Board.
Chapters Six and Seven — Dissolution and final provisions
The association may be dissolved by decision of the General Assembly, upon merger, or by court decision. Liquidation follows the Commercial Act and the Non-Profit Legal Entities Act. As the association operates for public benefit, assets remaining after creditors are satisfied may not be distributed to the persons listed in Art. 43 (2) of that Act; they pass to a non-profit legal entity with the same or a similar public-benefit purpose, or failing that to the municipality of the seat.
The Statute was adopted by the General Assembly on 10 August 2026 and replaces the previous statute in full. Matters not covered by it are governed by the Non-Profit Legal Entities Act and Bulgarian law.