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The 9th annual Osgoode’s Internationally Trained Lawyers Day (OITLD) showcased how there are a variety of different paths to starting a fulfilling legal career in Canada. This year’s event took place in person and focused on how the Internationally Trained Lawyer community in Canada is helping expand and advance opportunities for… Click to Continue Reading.
This is the fourth and final part of our four-part series, focusing on how to land a legal job in Canada. If you haven’t read the first three parts, we encourage you to start here: Part 1: Identifying Your Goals and Getting Licensed to Practice Law in CanadaPart 2: The… Click to Continue Reading.
Although this may seem obvious, before considering which option is best for you – ensure you review your NCA assessment. Your options fall into three categories: Write NCA Challenge ExamsChallenge exams are a series of examinations designed to assess your knowledge in specific subject areas required by the NCA. These… Click to Continue Reading.
This is the second part in our four-part series. If you haven’t already read Part 1: Identifying Your Goals and Getting Licensed to Practise Law in Canada you will want to start there. In this part, we’ll discuss the NCA Process. If you prefer an audio/visual explanation of the process,… Click to Continue Reading.
Internationally trained lawyers are not one thing – they may be immigrants to Canada, international students interested in studying in Canada, or Canadians who have completed their law degree outside of Canada. Internationally trained lawyers each have their own unique academic/professional/lived experience which helps to inform their interests and goals.… Click to Continue Reading.
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.
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.