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Our host, Chelsea Sawaya, sat down with Shawn Cowan, President of Ottawa Valley Handrailing Company LTD, to discuss managing the struggles of meeting contract deadlines with clients and contractors resulting from industry delays due to unpredictability Covid.
Read MoreIn this episode of the Student Life Series, our host, Bianca Morello, sits down with Professor Anne Levesque and student Sarah to discuss the different activities they planned for the 1L orientation at the University of Ottawa. Some of the topics include the "hybrid" activities they organized, how to prepare for the first year of law school, and how to be most successful whether attending class in-person or online
Read MoreChelsea Sawaya sat down with Patrick Dunlop, Open Source & Cryptocurrency Intelligence Lead at Inquisitive Intel, to discuss what you need to do to make your business secure in the world wide web we now live on. Tune in to learn more about the importance of cyber-hygiene, the use of NFT in legal documents, and the evolution of cyber-security.
Read MoreSit down with host Sabrina Dueck and guest Louanne Moriarty as they discuss volunteering with a law school legal clinic (specifically, Student Legal Assistance at the University of Calgary). Receive some bonus tips from a pandemic-era grad on how to balance life and law school. Louanne talks about her personal experience working with SLA throughout all three years of law school, the many benefits of volunteering/working at any law school legal clinic, and how to survive law school in general.
Read MoreEarlier this summer, Jake Clark sat down with Professor Steven Chaplin to discuss the historical context of the Reference re Greenhouse Gas Pollution Act. Covering the context behind the 405-page case requires looking into the history of Canadian federalism, charting its constitutional origins and evolution in a world of rapid technological expansion. In doing so, they discussed watertight compartments, uranium regulation, and why there will always be jobs for lawyers.
Read MoreHost Sabrina Dueck is joined by Jodi Koffman, a Senior Crown Attorney for the Manitoba Justice Prosecution Service, and Hillarie Tasche, a staff attorney at Legal Aid Manitoba, to discuss working in the Youth Criminal Justice System in Canada. Both guests specialize in youth crime and have worked together on many of their files.
Read MoreHave you ever wondered what it's like to start your own law practice? In this episode, host Miho Kitamura speaks with Ayesha Kumararatne, an immigration lawyer who started her own practice in her mid-twenties. Her journey hasn't been without challenges. Those challenges fueled her growth, and she is thriving along with her practice. Ayesha shares valuable advice for those thinking of starting their own practice and gets candid about being a young woman of colour in law, managing overwhelming stress, and making time for life outside of work (which, for our guest, involves taking care of her furry friend and growing multi-coloured carrots).
Read MoreA lot of us came to law school to leave our footprint in the world. There is arguably no better person to talk to about this than the one and only Michael Spratt. Michael joins us to talk about employing your legal skills for the sake of community education, participation, and engagement so that you can make positive changes on issues that you are passionate about.
Read MoreJoin our host, William Lundy and his guest Jack Daiter, the former VP of the Primary Professional Liability Claims Department at LawPRO in this week's episode. They discuss why lawyers get sued, how these lawsuits get handled, and what can derail a successful mediation. Listen in to learn how tough calls are made at the executive level.
Read MoreIn this episode, Joshua Mandryk— labour lawyer and employment class action litigator at Goldblatt Partners LLP— speaks to host Ali Mesbahian about building solidarity with working people and providing access to justice. Who is allowed to bring forth a class action, and what criteria must be met? What area of employment law are class actions most common? What does “success” entail in class actions, and how frequent are they? What are the interests involved in an employment class action, and how does the lawyer attend to them, especially in the event of a conflict?
Read MoreJoin Amos Vang and Leonard Gilbert as the two classical concert pianists discuss in great detail the wondrous world of classical concert piano performance, the similarities between pianistic practice and athletic practice, the prestige of the International Chopin Competition, the philosophies of piano performance and virtuosity, the philosophies of piano technique and preparation, the centuries-long evolution of piano tuning and musical counterpoint, and the importance, benefits, and transferability of a classical music training into a legal career.
Read MoreThis week's episode challenges the perception of the greedy, workaholic lawyer stereotype. Joel Szota sits down with Derek Ross the Executive Director of the Christian Legal Fellowship, to hear his take on how religion can guide a meaningful legal career. They discuss the difficulties of law school, the benefits and challenges of being a person of faith, Quebec's religious symbols law, and more.
Read MoreIn part two of the episode, Lucie Zhang continues a discussion with Adam Goldenberg, a litigator at McCarthy Tétrault LLP. In part one, Adam shared his experiences and motivations as a litigation lawyer that lead him to co-author a book on Canadian emergency law. In this episode, we delve into the world of emergency law, and Adam explains what a national emergency is.
Read MoreIn part one of the episode, Lucie Zhang talks to Adam Goldenberg, a litigator at McCarthy Tétrault LLP. Adam shares his journey to becoming a litigation lawyer and how his practice has changed because of the pandemic. By likening the typical week of a litigator as a process of dynamic triage, Adam outlines the skills junior lawyers need to develop to succeed.
Read MoreShortly after the Federal Court of Appeal hearing about the constitutionality of the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement (STCA), host Kelley Humber sat down with one of the members of the litigation team, Heather Neufeld. Heather is an immigration and refugee lawyer, and one of 9 lawyers working to overturn the STCA by advocating for refugees' constitutional rights in Canada. Heather discusses the Section 7 (life, liberty, security of the person) and Section 15 (equality) claims being made, some of the challenges of evidence gathering for a case of this nature and scale, and how COVID-19 has impacted how she litigates.
Read MoreIra Shatzmiller is head of Legal and Compliance at BSH Appliances. Join our host Rutumi Tank chat with this insightful lawyer about her journey, starting with law school to the present day. Ira Shatzmiller provides us with pearls of wisdom, personal anecdotes, and tips on being successful as an in-house lawyer.
Read MoreJoin Amos Vang as he interviews Royal Canadian Dragoon veteran, world-class volleyball player, lawyer and law professor Leah West on her career journey from the Royal Military College to the 2004 World Volleyball Championships to Afghanistan to law school and a legal career in national security.
Read More"Policy and legislation-wise, we still have a lot of work to do." Emma Partridge sits down with Dr. Adelina Iftene, author of "Punished for Aging: Vulnerability, Rights, and Access to Justice in Canadian Penitentiaries," to discuss the legal community's response to growing calls for prison abolition. Are lawyers pushing the conversation forward or just maintaining the status quo? Listen now.
Read MoreJoseph Fritz is a lawyer, legal entrepreneur, and advocate whose provocative statements in Netflix's wildly popular "Tiger King" made the name Carole Baskin one of the most notorious taglines of 2020. William White learns how Joe earned his stripes and eventually brought a range of legal issues into the zeitgeist of a society stuck at home.
Read MoreAs part of the Student Life Series, Bianca Morello sits down for a chat with Chelsea Sawaya and François Bélanger, two students who have just completed their first year of law school at the University of Ottawa. Just like the title suggests, we talk about our classes, how we adapted to law school online, work-life balance and our perspective on grades.
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