Program Spotlight
Around a decade ago, when Ontario’s most senior family law judges and lawyers began noticing a growing deficit in the skills of younger practitioners coming through the ranks, they knew exactly where to turn for help. “They came to OsgoodePD,” says Alison Hurst, Program Lawyer for the Osgoode Certificate in Family Law… Click to Continue Reading.
Math doesn’t always come naturally for lawyers. Some even hope to have left the subject behind when they enter law school, before realizing how critically important a basic understanding of math will be to their ability to serve their clients and run their practice in the future. “There are many… Click to Continue Reading.
It’s almost impossible for new lawyers to avoid real estate transactions as they begin their legal careers in practice areas as diverse as commercial, taxation, litigation, wills and estates or family law. But for a topic so foundational to Canadian legal practice, it’s still relatively routine for fledging lawyers to… Click to Continue Reading.
Program SpotlightOsgoode creates practical programming to build real estate transactions skills
At the forefront of legal education, the Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law has helped over 1,000 internationally trained lawyers since 2013 to become licensed to practice law in Canada. The part-time study option offers students the flexibility to attend courses in-person and/or online. This means you can customize your… Click to Continue Reading.
The world of U.S.-Canada trade relations has undergone a seismic shift over the course of Jonathan O’Hara’s legal career. When he first joined McMillan LLP in 2012, O’Hara says there was something approaching a consensus in trade circles on both sides of the border: “Everyone was very keen on trade… Click to Continue Reading.
Osgoode Professional Development (OsgoodePD) and the Society of Ontario Adjudicators and Regulators (SOAR) are pleased to announce the appointment of Liz Nastasi and Deborah Pressman as Co- Program Directors of the Certificate in Adjudication for Administrative Agencies, Boards and Tribunals. Liz and Deb are experienced adjudicators and educators, are well-known… Click to Continue Reading.
Businesses that can weather the ongoing storm surrounding equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace will emerge stronger, according to employment lawyer and human resources consultant Laura Williams. After a brief period of virtual public consensus in favour of EDI initiatives, Williams, the program director for the Osgoode Certificate in… Click to Continue Reading.
Program SpotlightOsgoode certificate helps businesses improve equity, diversity and inclusion in the workplace
If anyone knows how far gambling law has come in Ontario, it’s Don Bourgeois. Bourgeois had his first professional encounters with the practice area in the late 1980s as a lawyer with the Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations, a department with a particularly wide-ranging mandate. “It was a womb-to-tomb… Click to Continue Reading.
Legal education isn’t just for lawyers. As Ontario Court Justice Rick Libman points out, the vast majority of matters in his court are summary conviction cases, which fall within the scope of practice for paralegals licensed in this province. That was part of the inspiration for the creation of the… Click to Continue Reading.
Program SpotlightJustice Rick Libman helps legal professionals handle summary conviction matters
OsgoodePD is helping Miller Thomson LLP supercharge the development of its associates with a cutting-edge collaboration that fuses the power of technology with the benefits of in-person learning. The organizations have partnered to develop a blended program designed specifically for associates in the firm’s civil litigation and labour and employment… Click to Continue Reading.
Program SpotlightOsgoodePD blended program helps Miller Thomson LLP provide hands-on training for associates
Fay Faraday and Bruce Ryder are not just co-instructors on Osgoode’s part-time Professional LLM in Constitutional Law. The professors, who teach the Equality Rights course together, are also neighbours at the intersection of legal practice and legal academia. “I always found that division unnecessary,” Faraday says. “There is such a… Click to Continue Reading.
Program SpotlightConstitutional Law profs Fay Faraday and Bruce Ryder bring legal practice and academia together