Alumni Spotlight
Maria Estela Anaya Reyes is not the type to shy away from a challenge. Undaunted by the prospect of beginning Osgoode’s Professional LLM in International Business Law in her second language, she touched down in Toronto as a fresh wave of COVID-19 infections were engulfing her new home city in… Click to Continue Reading.
Keeping an open mind is the key to adapting as a newcomer to Canada’s legal community, according to Christianah Adeyemi. And she should know: the internationally-trained lawyer is licensed in Nigeria, but had never set foot in Canada before arriving to enrol in Osgoode’s Professional LLM in International Business Law… Click to Continue Reading.
We had the pleasure of sitting down with Armando D’Andrea, a lawyer at Legal Aid Ontario and alumnus of Osgoode’s Professional LLM in Criminal Law and Procedure, to discuss with him how he got to where he is today in his professional journey. Tell us about yourself and what you… Click to Continue Reading.
We had the pleasure of speaking with Evelyn Thompson-Smith, Director for Strategic Capital Planning for Central Zone at Alberta Health Services and alumnus of the Professional LLM in Health Law as well as The Osgoode Certificate in Fundamentals of Indigenous Peoples and Canadian Law. Evelyn told us of her experiences… Click to Continue Reading.
Eduardo Castro is an internationally trained lawyer and alumnus of the Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law. He is currently working as a legal assistant at Gottlieb Family Law Professional Corporation where he refines his communication, organization, customer service, legal writing and legal research skills in preparation for his next… Click to Continue Reading.
Growing up in Mexico City, Solange Márquez Espinoza’s childhood home was filled with discussion of art, philosophy, and politics—and lots of talk about the law, thanks to her mother. “My mother gave my siblings and me a love of books and history and law,” says Márquez Espinoza today. Over the… Click to Continue Reading.
Growing up in a small town in Newfoundland, John Drover’s exposure to the legal profession didn’t extend much beyond what he saw on TV. Even after moving as a young adult to the province’s capital city, St. John’s, his career went “in a million directions” throughout his 20s. He managed… Click to Continue Reading.
In 2007, 25-year-old Johann Du Plessis was building a growing practice in tax law in Cape Town, South Africa, when tragedy struck—his father-in-law passed away in a car accident. He and his wife moved to neighbouring Namibia, his wife’s home country, to be closer to the grieving family. The move… Click to Continue Reading.
Hardeep Chahal remembers when his fascinating with the law began: a Grade 12 Law class with Mr. Olson at Norkam Secondary School in Kamloops, BC. Chahal grew up knowing he’d pursue a professional career, an ambition handed down from his father, an engineer who’d immigrated to Canada in 1969. Because… Click to Continue Reading.
Jena Karim doesn’t hold back when talking about the joys and heartbreaks of her work. At 41 years old, the U.S.-based Karim has spent the past two decades in the international-development field, working to strengthen new democracies around the world. That means, in her words, “election reform, fighting for transparent… Click to Continue Reading.
If there’s one constant in the world of finance, it’s change. And that makes financial law one of the most dynamic, challenging areas of legal practice. In a country like Canada—with its track record of strong regulation and financial stability—rapid change also poses a major challenge: how do we foster… Click to Continue Reading.