What New Lawyers Need to Know About LAWPRO
The FAQs below answer some of the more common questions we hear from newly called lawyers. The answers will help you determine if you need insurance coverage (or whether you’re exempt) and which steps...
View ArticleThe Best Law Books Every Student Should Read (?)
Last summer the law section of The Guardian newspaper in the UK asked readers to submit their ideas for "books every law student should read". The response included everything from Charles Dickens to...
View ArticleThe Ethics of 24/7 Lawyering
Lawyers work hard and play hard, except for the play part. This asymmetry is owed to the great demands on time and energy that the law profession features as it clings to the old adage that being a...
View ArticleStudents, Wondering What Hiring Firms Look For?
In a competitive job market, it’s important to consider not only what kind of work YOU want to do (and in what kind of environment), but also what legal employers are looking for in a new hire. This...
View ArticleWhat I Wish I Knew in Law School
May El-Abdallah is a former articling student at LAWPRO. This article originally appeared in the 2012 Student Edition of LAWPRO Magazine. Law school can be a steep learning curve, and stepping into the...
View Article50 Shades of Neutrality: A Review of “Professionalism”
With an uncritical eye the Chief Justice of Ontario’s report on professionalism makes a virtuous call for higher standards of professionalism for lawyers. It is a response to the reality of declining...
View ArticleIt All Comes Down to How You Bend and Snap
Lawyers need to be of good character when they enter the profession but what does good character look like in lawyers already practising in the profession? To answer this, I will turn to Legally...
View ArticleSocial Media and Your Career: Be Social but Be Wise!
You have likely already been warned about the potential impact of your social media involvement on your professional reputation. Hopefully, you already know enough to carefully tailor access to your...
View ArticleChic Critique: Dressing Up Professional Criticism
Sophisticated, stylish and elegant. These qualities are highly regarded in the fashion industry and embody something or someone who is chic. However, these qualities are not exclusive to the world of...
View ArticleThree Reasons Why the LPP Will Replace Articling Forever
The Law Practice Program (LPP) is about to change the way lawyers are licensed in Ontario. The LPP is the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC)’s solution to “the articling crisis.” It’s meant to provide...
View ArticleFind Your Feet Faster With the Help of a Mentor
It's an open secret that law students emerge from law school knowing loads about law, and frighteningly little about legal practice. How students cope with this gap depends on many factors, including...
View ArticleStudents and New Lawyers: Remember to Take Care of Your Physical and Mental...
Lawyers (both new and old) and law students are exposed to high levels of stress on a daily basis. The results can be use, misuse or even addiction to drugs or alcohol, and challenges to physical or...
View ArticleMay or Shall? Mandatory Disclosure, the Rules of Professional Conduct, and...
The Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) should make disclosure mandatory in situations where public safety is at risk. The current Rulesof Professional Conduct (Rules) focus on protecting...
View ArticleAre You Ready for Sole Practice?
One-third of the nearly 23,500 lawyers in private practice in Ontario are sole practitioners. As a solo, it’s great to have the freedom that comes with being your own boss, but you also have full...
View ArticleStudent to Lawyer: 20 Tips for a Successful Transition
Excerpted from LAWPRO Magazine, Student Issue #1, 2012 There isn't a simple magic formula for mapping out a career in law. You will make some decisions on where you would like to go, but there are many...
View ArticleDoes It Matter if Only the Well-Off Can Afford to Go to Law School?
One participant on the cbafutures.org website noted that with their own law school tuition at $13,000 a year, the pool of applicants with the means to attend shrinks tremendously. Indeed, some new...
View ArticleDoes a Generational Divide Hamper Change in Legal Services?
My class at University of Ottawa Law is now over. But the thoughts provoked in class hopefully are not. U of O has, probably more so than other Ontario law schools, a social justice/access to justice...
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Upcoming Law Student Week
This year, as we have done for a few years in the past, Slaw will each day in the coming week host a number of student essays written for Professor Adam Dodek’s first year course in Legal Ethics at...
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Our Lips Are Sealed
The Go-Go’s in their 1981 hit song Our Lips Are Sealed sang that they had no secrets to reveal. How lucky for them. The rest of us in society encounter secrets in a multitude of circumstances. We are...
View ArticleStudent Week on Slaw: What Do Law Firms Look For?
LAWPRO is pleased to take part in Slaw’s Student Week. We’ve made an effort to reach out to students and new lawyers by creating a student issue of LAWPRO Magazine for the law schools, and this week...
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