Resume Writing Tips for Law Students
This educational video provides helpful and pragmatic resume writing tips for law students applying for articling positions. Follow these steps to move closer to your dream of being a partner in a Bay Street law…
Dr. Sarita Verma at the Health Law Conference
First post in a series on the First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference. Dr. Sarita Verma, Deputy Dean of Graduate Postgraduate education at UofT Medicine, is a family physician who originally trained as a lawyer…
First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference
The First Annual Interprofessional Health Law Conference is being held this morning at UofT law. The session is being broadcasted live to viewers across the world. Notes from the session can be found below. Dr….
The Fight for Iraq War Resisters to Remain in Canada is a Two-Front War
The following article was sent to us by the author, Krystalline Kraus, for republication. Originally posted here. The political front On June 3, 2008, Canadian Parliament voted in favour of allowing Iraq war resisters to…
Law Students Demand Repatriation of Omar Khadr
Hundreds of law students from across the country have added their names to the growing list of people calling for the repatriation and fair trial of Omar Khadr, as well as the closure of the…
Strange B&E May Signal Growing Practice Area
Police are chasing a man in Cairns, Australia for breaking and entering into a store and stealing their toys. He’s suspected of several break-ins at a s similar store in the city. But these stores…
YouTube Video Entered as Evidence in B.C. Trial
The B.C. Supreme Court entered a YouTube video of a Victoria man yesterday, the first time the Crown has done so in that province. “AR-15 Makes Swiss Cheese Out of a Couch,” now removed from…
Interview with the Author of “Life Without Lawyers”
Law schools on both sides of the border are graduating more lawyers than ever before. What effect will the influx of lawyers have on the profession and on the litigation culture in the United States…
Obama: End of Guantanamo and Good News for Omar Khadr
I have previously expressed my shame at the Canadian Government’s failure to follow the example of every other Western nation in demanding the repatriation of our citizen at Guantanamo Bay. The advocacy in favour of…
A New MOFO for a New Year
Middle Passage Law Series Hahahahahahah…. I know what you are thinking, but no, not the expletive. “MOFO” is in fact short for the law firm of Morrison & Foerster. I was wondering how best to…
The Conflicted Relationship between Lawyers and “Indians”
[The following piece was sent to us by a reader. Reproduced with permission of the author.] An Identification of the Conflicted Relationship between the Indigenous Nations and the Legal Profession in North America by Bruce…
Canadian / US Law Outline Wiki
A new Wikipedia-type site for law outlines has been created by law students at Queen’s University. Law students across Canada and the USA can post to the wiki, which works just like Wikipedia; anybody can…