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When Antonella Ceddia accepted her place at law school in 1999, she thought it may be the end of the road for her career as a human rights professional. With over a decade of experience behind her as a Policy Advisor and human rights investigator, and the private sector as… Click to Continue Reading.
Osgoode Professional Development has lost a valued team leader, cheerleader, and beloved friend. On May 20, 2023, at the age of 46, Heather Gore Liddell passed away unexpectedly from interstitial lung disease, the same disease that claimed her mother’s life almost 20 years ago. Although no one can be sure,… Click to Continue Reading.
On May 25th, Osgoode Professional Development marked a memorable event celebrating 30 years of the LLM in Taxation Law. The event brought together a diverse group of attendees, including students, alumni, practitioners, academics, and thought leaders in taxation law, to celebrate the program’s anniversary and engage in thoughtful discussions on… 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.
This year marked the Hon. Justice Ward K. Branch’s nineteenth year on the planning committee for OsgoodePD’s Annual National Symposium on Class Actions, held April 27 and 28, 2023. After nearly two decades of helping develop the symposium into the foremost forum for class actions debate in Canada, Justice Branch… 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.
In October 2022, OsgoodePD issued its first digital credential for the Osgoode Certificate in Fundamentals of Indigenous Peoples and Canadian Law. After completing all program modules and passing an online exam, learners can claim a digital credential (or “badge” as some may call it), in addition to receiving a paper… Click to Continue Reading.
Anyone who has ever participated in a group task knows that the teamwork abilities of your colleagues can make or break a project. Regardless of the intelligence, talent or technical savviness of individual teammates, participants and outside observers can quickly get a sense for which collective endeavours are headed for… Click to Continue Reading.
As we prepare to mark the 53rd anniversary of Earth Day, one measure of the world’s progress on environmental issues is the space they occupy in the thoughts of the country’s business leaders. While executives at the helm of public and private companies might have been able to ignore… Click to Continue Reading.