Alumni Spotlight
We had the pleasure of sitting down with Patricia Cavalhier, director of legal services at TVOntario and alumna of Osgoode’s Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law to discuss her professional journey and how she got to where she is today. Patricia completed her LLB at Universidade Católica do Salvador, in… Click to Continue Reading.
More than 30 years after he left the engineering field, Pierre’s professional roots have never been too far from the surface as he built himself a new career in the legal field. Long before he became the lead intellectual property counsel at CCM Hockey in Montreal, Pierre’s lifelong fascination with… Click to Continue Reading.
We had the pleasure of sitting down with Lotus Menezes, a recent graduate of the Osgoode Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law. Lotus comes from a commercial law background, working in Tanzania and South Africa. After taking some time off to become a mom, she wanted to switch directions, and… Click to Continue Reading.
Natasha Shamutete has never had a problem getting out of her comfort zone. After leaving Zambia to attend law school in the U.K., she opted for a course load heavy on corporate and commercial law – choices that may not have sounded like the most natural fit for a student… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightNatasha Shamutete Takes Her Career to the Next Level With a Taxation Law Degree
Hennadiy Kutsenko can practically pinpoint when he fell in love with tax law. Having flirted with the basics in a law school class nicknamed “baby tax” by students, he delved deeper in an upper year course on corporate tax. “That’s when the work got really challenging, but I got the… Click to Continue Reading.
Without a family history in the law, Daniela Carreira had to build her own connections as she established herself in the Brazilian legal field. “I didn’t really know what law school was about, but I wanted to give it a try,” she says. “There were no lawyers in my family… Click to Continue Reading.
From the very beginning of her career as a chartered professional accountant, Chessa Jope was keen to broaden her horizons. In her role as an assurance manager in the energy, utilities, mining and industrial products division of accounting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers, Jope had plenty of opportunities to get away from her… Click to Continue Reading.
We had the pleasure of sitting down with Toral Patel, Manager, Control of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Toronto Public Health, and alumnus of the Osgoode Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law to discuss her professional journey and how she got to where she is today. Tell us a little… Click to Continue Reading.
She set her sights on the legal profession as early as age four and never wavered, thanks in part to the regular pre-work ritual her mother developed before heading off to her own job as a nurse: “My mother would sit me in the room while she was resting before… Click to Continue Reading.
Growing up in Brazil, Kelin Algayer always knew she wanted to live abroad. She just wasn’t sure exactly where in the world to make her new home – at least until an English language study course brought her to Vancouver in 2014. “I came to Canada for two months and… Click to Continue Reading.
For Munmun Saha, the only thing that comes close to her passion for law is her love of television and pop culture. Back in her native Bangladesh, the OsgoodePD International Entrance Award winner found herself naturally drawn to family law as she launched her career in private practice, under the… Click to Continue Reading.