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Growing up with a keen interest in politics, Warren J. Newman set his sights on the legal profession in his early teenage years – mostly as a stepping stone to his ultimate goal. “My intention was to become a lawyer and then enter public life,” he says. “Instead, I’ve ended… Click to Continue Reading.
Bruce McCuaig, co-program director of the Professional LLM in Energy and Infrastructure Law, is not one to rest on his laurels. “I highly believe in continuing your education and knowledge gathering throughout your career,” he says. As co-program director, McCuaig guides working professionals with legal and non-legal backgrounds do just… Click to Continue Reading.
Instructor ProfileProfessional LLM in Energy and Infrastructure Law co-program director Bruce McCuaig
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
One highlight stands above the rest for Marc Bhalla from the inaugural run of OsgoodePD’s In Search of Reconciliation Through Dispute Resolution, the intensive course he co-founded with fellow Professional LLM in Dispute Resolution grad Andrea Menard. “I had just discovered this Indigenous group called Snotty Nose Rez Kids and… Click to Continue Reading.
Natalija Popovic feels right at home in front of a law school classroom. After decades in the field of litigation, she says it wasn’t a huge leap for her to join the faculty of Osgoode’s Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law. And over the last nine years, Popovic has noticed… Click to Continue Reading.
Simulated clients (SCs) improve legal education by enhancing the client-facing skills of students and practitioners. Under the leadership of Professor Paul Maharg, a number of SC projects have been established over the last six years at Osgoode Professional Development (OsgoodePD) and Osgoode Hall Law School. In July, the latest international… Click to Continue Reading.
When Lisa Stam decided to act on her entrepreneurial instincts and start her own virtual law firm back in 2017, she was still something of an outlier in the field. “For most people in the legal profession at that time, there was this idea that you could only be a… Click to Continue Reading.
John D. R. Craig is something of an evangelist for continuing legal education. “I think it’s crucially important for all legal practitioners,” says Craig, a partner at labour and employment law boutique Mathews Dinsdale & Clark LLP and the 2024 winner of OsgoodePD’s 2024 CLE Contribution Award. Long before the… Click to Continue Reading.
Instructor ProfileLabour and employment law legend John Craig wins OsgoodePD’s CLE Contribution Award
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.