Alumni Spotlight
The roots of Tamara Barclay’s determination to become a lawyer go so deep that even she can’t remember a time before her sights were set on the profession. “The family story is that as a little girl, I always liked arguing. One day, I announced that I was going to… Click to Continue Reading.
Growing up surrounded by lawyers as both a son and a brother, Ryan Hayes thought he had a good grasp of the legal profession. However, his experiences didn’t leave him with a favorable impression. “My dad and my sister work on the litigation side, but I wanted to be the… Click to Continue Reading.
Charmaine Chung has spent most of her career on the legal fast track. After enrolling in a Bachelor of Business Administration course at York University’s Schulich School of Business, Chung left early to take up a place at Osgoode Hall Law School. “I knew very early on that I wanted… Click to Continue Reading.
Ann Wallington is happy to admit she was a little anxious about her enrolment in Osgoode’s part-time Professional LLM in Constitutional Law. Before her 2013 start date, Wallington had spent most of the previous three decades immersed in the field of law and justice. That included 13 years as a… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightAnn Wallington augmented her practical experience in Canadian constitutional law with an Osgoode LLM
Yonida Koukio doesn’t just speak the language of her clients; she has walked in their shoes. Before establishing herself as a corporate and intellectual property lawyer assisting innovative startups with every stage of their business – from inception to exit – Yonida was the co-founder of her own tech enterprise,… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightOsgoode General Law LLM grad Yonida Koukio has walked a mile in her start-up clients’ shoes
Kim Westfall-Connor has never been afraid to blaze her own trail. After becoming the first member of her family to attend university, she qualified as a registered massage therapist (RMT), before carving out a unique career for herself in health law that includes elements of healthcare governance, professional discipline adjudication… Click to Continue Reading.
Veronica Syrtash could hardly have picked a more consequential moment in music or intellectual property law history when she began her career at the Canadian Musical Reproduction Rights Agency (CMRRA) in 1999. In June of that year, just a week after Syrtash took up the role, a service known as… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightVeronica Syrtash’s career at the intersection of intellectual property law and music
Enrolling as the lone physician in his cohort on Osgoode’s Professional LLM in Dispute Resolution program was never going to faze Nathan Roth. “It was invigorating to be amongst individuals with such diverse educational backgrounds and life experiences,” says Roth, a seasoned obstetrician and gynecologist with more than 30 years… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightNathan Roth brings dispute resolution expertise to the healthcare industry and beyond
When Hilary Chung was growing up in Cornwall, Ontario, her family’s dinner-table conversation often turned to matters of medicine—not a surprise when you have a doctor for a dad, as she did. But it wasn’t just the nitty-gritty of medical practice she learned about. Her father was a passionate advocate… Click to Continue Reading.
As a child, Danielle Douek found herself fascinated with encyclopedias of ailments and disease. But she never seriously considered a career in medicine. “I was terrible at science and math, so being a doctor was never in the cards,” she explains, laughing. Still, several years out from her 2010 call… Click to Continue Reading.
It was in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic that Marty Venalainen decided to enroll in OsgoodePD’s Professional LLM in Energy and Infrastructure Law. “My son told me that overcoming COVID-19 was my generation’s responsibility and that overcoming climate change would be his generation’s responsibility,” he says. “I find… Click to Continue Reading.