Pay Your Student Loan Off – In Cash
Do law school student loans have you feeling down? Well here’s a story to make you smile, of the UofT law graduate who paid off his student loans in cash. Alysha Hasham of the Toronto…
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Queen’s Makes “Outlines” Before Final Exams
The law students at Queen’s University recently celebrated their annual talent show “Lawlapalooza”, and kicked things off with this parody of Drake’s “Headlines”. Â To all those law students preparing for final exams (and everyone who…
Articling How To – Canadian Lawyer4Students
Articling How To – an article in Canadian Lawyer4Students discusses the ways students seeking articles can make themselves stand out from the crowd.
How law students can boost their job prospects with a good online profile
Canadian Lawyer 4Students article on how law students can boost their job prospects with a good online profile.
A proposal to resolve the articling crisis
There is an articling crisis in Ontario. Many students enticed to law schools by the prospect of being a lawyer, can’t overcome the final hurdle because they can’t find an articling job. Ten months of…
Should You Go to Law School?
The decision whether you should go to law school is fraught with complicated pros and cons, including opportunities, finances, salaries, and personal goals. Finally some anonymous law student has created a comprehensive site to help…
From 3 Kilometres to 3 Clicks Away
Most law students are not strangers to the limitless potential of the internet. The internet has been tamed for us to apply to write the LSAT(s), apply to law schools, receive our acceptance(s), select our…
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…
Access Copyright: Outrageous and Unnecessary
As a UWO student (and at many other Canadian universities,) you automatically pay an annual fee to an organization called Access Copyright. An item is included in your student activity fee, and it used to…
Case Comment – Gomboc Decision, 2010 SCC 55
Here is a link to my website for a case comment on the Gomboc that will be published in an upcoming issue of RegQuest. Enjoy the reading.
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…