Alumni Spotlight
Entrepreneurial spirit has always been a professional driving force for Kim Gale. A fierce advocate for herself and others, this trait shone through during her transition to the Canadian legal industry after graduating from law school in the U.K. Faced with challenges, she took decisive action and founded the NCA… Click to Continue Reading.
Sandeep Sandhu has filled almost every role in the legal office at one time or other. Long before her 2018 call to the bar, Sandhu – a graduate of Osgoode’s full-time Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law – got her start in the legal sector as a receptionist at a… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightHow a Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law prepared Sandeep Sandhu for practice
Few lawyers in banking and financial law have approached the derivatives market from as many angles as Trevor Noronha. At the time of his 2001 call to the bar, Noronha was in private practice for a Bay Street law firm working on secured lending and securitization transactions. He then made… Click to Continue Reading.
Pamela Santora never needed any convincing about the value of an LLM. Before she finally enrolled in OsgoodePD’s Professional LLM in Criminal Law and Procedure in 2020, the only barriers standing in her way were practical ones: less than a decade out from her call to the bar and absorbed… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightOsgoode’s Criminal Law and Procedure LLM helped Pamela Santora see the bigger picture
Anjana Bandara is not one to turn her back on a challenge. After leaving behind a burgeoning legal career in Sri Lanka when she immigrated to Canada, Bandara was determined to requalify in her adopted homeland and still vividly remembers sitting down to take her first examination required by the… Click to Continue Reading.
Tania Narciso gave herself an accidental head start on her road to the top of the risk and compliance field. Long before graduating from Osgoode’s part-time Professional LLM in Privacy and Cybersecurity Law, Narciso took a part-time job at a bank to support herself during her undergraduate studies in science, believing… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightHow Osgoode’s Privacy and Cybersecurity Law LLM helps Tania Narciso navigate ambiguity
A little bit of luck and a lot of hard work is the formula for a successful transition to legal practice in Canada, judging by the career of internationally trained lawyer Ramanuj Basu, a graduate of Osgoode’s Professional LLM in International Business Law. Ramanuj’s legal journey started in serendipitous fashion… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightHow Ramanuj Basu set himself up for success in Canada with an International Business Law LLM
Few people embody their occupation as perfectly as international tax specialist Filipe Reis de Carvalho. In his current role at Scotiabank’s Toronto headquarters, the Brazilian-born graduate of Osgoode’s part-time Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law program advises a global financial institution on U.S. federal tax issues. “International experience is something… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightHow a Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law helped Filipe Reis de Carvalho set down roots in Canada
Ali Ghiassi had his political awakening a little earlier than most. The graduate of OsgoodePD’s part-time Professional LLM in Constitutional Law was just seven years old when his family left Iran following the revolution that brought down the country’s monarchy. “When you see something like that at a young age,… Click to Continue Reading.
Bhuvana Rai has a judge to thank (at least partly) for her Professional LLM in Taxation Law. Just days into her clerkship at the Tax Court of Canada, one of Rai’s judicial mentors – obviously sensing potential in the fresh law school grad – had some advice for her: “He… Click to Continue Reading.
From a young age, Henry Shew has always appreciated a good riddle. “Solving complex mysteries and puzzles is something that I’ve always been drawn to. I like getting into the nitty gritty details,” he says. And Shew has found the perfect professional outlet for his passion in the world of… Click to Continue Reading.