Dentons, Imperial launch program for lawyers from abroad
Number of certificates of qualification issued to foreign lawyers by FLSC (Click on the dots) Dentons is launching an articling program aimed squarely at lawyers who trained abroad.The firm’s Calgary...
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New report notes 94% employment rate for law graduates
Despite the clouds hanging over the legal profession right now, a new report suggests law schools have been doing a good job of providing students with an education that leads to a job.The report...
View ArticleMan loses articling position over alleged past behaviour
A law grad who was working for Ontario’s Ministry of the Attorney General was discharged from his articling position when he was terminated from his home position in the Ministry of Health and Long...
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The Top 10 Canadian legal ethics stories of 2014
For the last two years I have written up the Top 10 Canadian legal ethics stories for the prior year (2013 and 2012). This year I initially wondered whether it would be possible to identify 10...
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Feds ordered to cover articling students’ law society membership fees
The federal government must cover the law society membership fees for its articling students, a labour relations adjudicator has ruled.Since 2013, the Association of Justice Counsel has been battling...
View ArticleB.C. articling students can now act as commissioners
As of Sept. 1, the Law Society of British Columbia’s has a new regulation that allows articling students to serve as commissioners and take affidavits in B.C. The move extends the work the LSBC started...
View ArticleRyerson eyes new law school
Ryerson University could be home to the Canada’s newest law school. A year after the launch of the English Law Practice Program, its executive director Chris Bentley confirms the school is conducting...
View ArticleFrom face-to-face to FaceTime for articling students?
Carolyn Grogan is making history — as far as she knows — as the first articling student at a virtual law firm. “I think she must be the first . . . in the history of Alberta,” says Jason Morris of...
View ArticleCBA-BC program getting REAL creative
The Canadian Bar Association-British Columbia branch’s Rural Education and Access to Lawyer Initiative program is getting creative when it comes to placing students in small or rural areas where there...
View ArticleCourt tosses claims by fired articling student
In a case that raises questions about the professional obligations of an articling employer, a law student is suing Legal Aid Ontario and the Law Society of Upper Canada after being terminated two...
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