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This series consists of records documenting Law's work in establishing Edmonton Telephones and Edmonton Power as subsidiary corporations and the subsequent sale of Ed Tel to Telus.

This series consists of records created as the City of Edmonton expanded their boarders to annex surrounding lands and communities. It includes records of the Royal Commission on Metropolitan Development (the McNalley Commission), annexation and attempted annexations of Strathcona County, Jasper Place, Riverbend, and St. Albert. It also includes records regarding major city lead developments such as the Downtown Pedestrian Circulation System, the Mill Creek Ravine, the Aurum Dump, Borden Park, Kinsmen Sports Centre, and the Genesee Power Plant. This series also includes blueprints of City Developments including buildings such as City Hall, parks, roads, and transit developments.

This series consists of documentation regarding contracts Edmonton Law Branch was involved in creating and investigating. These records include negotiations with professional Edmonton sport teams, artists for creating public art, property developers and declaring several buildings Historic Resources, commercial developers and owners in developing the downtown pedway system, the lead up to hosting the Commonwealth Games, the construction and transfer of the downtown Royal Canadian Legion, the City's role in nuclear defense, and servicing land owned by developers.

This series consists of records documenting Law's involvement with Edmonton's bylaw process. It includes documents regarding Law's involvement in challenges of bylaws of historic significance, including the Lord's Day Act Bylaw allowing businesses to operate on Sundays, Carruthers Caveat restricting development in Glenora, dumping sewage into the North Saskatchewan river, the taxi bylaw and the change to taxis being solely functional via a dispatcher office, and the business license bylaw and how it applies to various types of massage clinics. The remainder of the series involves bylaws regarding the closure of roadways and alleyways for construction projects and parks including Keillor Road, and the funding of construction projects.

This series consists of documentation investigating Edmonton's Mayor and Councilors regarding compliance with the Municipalities Act. These investigations include the Porter Royal Commission into civic mismanagement especially in regards to property speculation and profiteering by William Hawrelak, the Morrow Inquiry into bribing councilors including Aldermen Fallow and McLean, the disqualification of Mayor Hawrelak for violating the City Act in 1965, and the Nuclear Disarmament Referendum quashed by Mayor Purves. This series also includes the report of the form of City Government which proposed switching Edmonton to its current ward based system.

This series consists of reports created by the Edmonton Board of Health and the Health Department.

This series consists of records created by the various sections of the Edmonton Health Department and its successor bodies which were operated by nurses. It includes meeting minutes from numerous committees, reviews of the various community programs run by nursing staff, and training material and educational resources used by nursing staff. It has been divided into three subseries:

• Subseries 2.1: Committee Minutes
• Subseries 2.2: Program Review
• Subseries 2.3: Training and Resources

This series consists of minutes, correspondence, and photos created by the Edmonton Health Department.

There are a number of organizations whose work relates to the areas overseen by the Commissioners or which the Commissioners maintained membership in as part of doing business for the City. The records in this series relate to such organizations, including but not limited to, the Alberta's Urban Municipalities Association, the Edmonton Public School Board, the Separate School Board of Edmonton, and the Edmonton Public Library Board.

During the First and Second World Wars the Commissioners took on a variety of duties relating to providing services to Edmontonians, serving as liaison for the delivery of Federal initiatives, and monitoring threats to civilians and the nation. Some post-war activities also generated the records found in this series. Subjects include air raid precautions, civil defense, military matters, rationing, immigration, deportation, and subversive activities, as well as the construction of the Cenotaph and Memorial Hall.