A Glimpse into Future Recruitment: Got Game?
You may think that I’m playing with you, but a Dutch law firm – Houthoff Buruma – uses “The Game” to separate the wheat from the chaff in terms of graduating law students in the…
Law Career
Response to Law School, A Losing Game
Susan Cartier Liebel of Solo Practice University has responded to the New York Times pieces, ‘Is Law School A Losing Game?‘ with a podcast interview of Rachel Rodgers and Jack Whittington. You can listen to…
Clinical Legal Education
In the Conference on Canadian Clinical Legal Education conducted by Western Law Professor and Director of Community Legal Services, Douglas Ferguson, that took place on 22nd and 23rd of October 2010, the emphasis was on…
How to Stay Healthy (and Sane) as a Law Student
Much has been written about succeeding in law school, but not as much has been said about remaining healthy and sane while succeeding. Â Having just finished my first law school exams this past December, I…
Managing Client Expectations – The Manifesto
Susan Cartier Liebel has this draft of a manifesto to help manage client expectations: ATTORNEY/CLIENT EXPECTATIONS What You Can Expect From Us Do Unto Others As You Would Have Them Do Unto You. Unless absolutely…
T I M E – the treasure that will measure…
If there is one word that distinguishes a simple undergraduate degree from a law degree, then that word is TIME. As a newly minted law student, never before has time appeared so essential, so vital,…
A Legal Student – Then and Now
It’s a lot of tuition, and even more hard work. But the journey to be a lawyer in Canada just might be worth it. In my column of this week’s Lawyers Weekly I ask the…
A Two-Year Law Career
The Globe has a story of Chris Graham, a Canadian who ended up on Wall Street doing corporate law, and then quit the law – at the age of 26. Even more mind-boggling is that…
The long road to call to the Ontario Bar
Guest post by Linelle S. Mogado, Esq. Welcome to the beginning of your law career in Canada! I am pleased to provide you with this guide to the process I went through to obtain my…
The Donkey and the Carrot: Why Law May Not Be So “Cool†After All
For the class of 2013 (or 2014 in my case), the end of summer signals the beginning of law school. Â Buoyed by hopes of success and spurred by the prospect of good paying jobs at…
Blawg Review #278
Blawg Review is a blog carnival that rotates to a different law site every week, usually emphasizing a specific theme. Last week’s review was by R. David Donoghue. August 23 is the “International Day for…
The Glass Ceiling is Breaking! Umm…kind of…
“…[P]robably the most exciting day was the day I found out I became dean. And I remember the person who phoned me said, ‘Are you sitting down?’ And I said, ‘No.’ And the person said,…