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Just two years after arriving in Canada, the place is already starting to feel like home to Juan Higuera. “It has been quite an adventure, but I can say that we are finally settled,” says Higuera, who had spent several years practising law in Mexico before enrolling in OsgoodePD’s Professional… Click to Continue Reading.
Even after more than four decades in practice, there is no danger of Bill Watson getting stuck in his ways at work. The longstanding partner at Baker & McKenzie LLP recently marked his 42nd year at the Ontario bar by completing the Osgoode Certificate in Human Resources Law for HR… Click to Continue Reading.
For Patricia Cavalhier, it was an opportunity she thought she’d never see again. When the Toronto resident immigrated to Canada from Brazil with her family in 2010, she assumed that giving up her career as an accomplished lawyer was simply a sacrifice she’d have to make. Her legal background in… Click to Continue Reading.
Imran Noorani’s work history divides neatly around his 2018 graduation from OsgoodePD’s part-time Professional LLM in Energy and Infrastructure Law. “It actually had a pretty profound impact on my career track and my life,” he says. In his pre-Osgoode years, Noorani had already earned an MBA from York University’s Schulich… Click to Continue Reading.
One of OsgoodePD’s most beloved staff members, Paul Wye, died tragically on August 4, at the age of 41. A celebration of Paul’s life was held on August 11 in the Osgoode Hall Law School Moot Court. Paul started at OsgoodePD in 2002 as a work study student and began… Click to Continue Reading.
Big changes are no big deal for Francisco Rojas. Soon after arriving in Canada from Ecuador to enrol in Osgoode’s Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law, Rojas set his sights on a corporate or commercial law position. To the casual observer, the choice might have appeared unusual for someone like… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightHow a Professional LLM in Canadian Common law helped Francisco Rojas make a career pivot
Just a few months after arriving in Toronto, the place is starting to feel like home for Hongqi Liu. During Liu’s short time in the city, the OsgoodePD International Entrance Award winner has found his transition smoothed by the ways in which his new surroundings are reminiscent of the Chinese… Click to Continue Reading.
John Tobin’s tax law career is about to come full circle. This fall – more than three decades after he earned the course prize as a student in Osgoode Hall Law School’s introductory tax law class – Tobin is set to start his role as co-director of OsgoodePD’s Professional LLM… Click to Continue Reading.
As Juan Carlos Diaz Garcia neared the end of his law school studies in Bogota, Colombia, a family crisis helped him discover his true professional calling. “My father was having a problem with an assessment the tax authorities had made and I wanted to figure out a way that I… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightJuan Carlos Diaz Garcia: Realizing your potential through a law degree in taxation
We had the pleasure of sitting down with Patricia Cavalhier, director of legal services at TVOntario and alumna of Osgoode’s Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law to discuss her professional journey and how she got to where she is today. Patricia completed her LLB at Universidade Católica do Salvador, in… Click to Continue Reading.
More than 30 years after he left the engineering field, Pierre’s professional roots have never been too far from the surface as he built himself a new career in the legal field. Long before he became the lead intellectual property counsel at CCM Hockey in Montreal, Pierre’s lifelong fascination with… Click to Continue Reading.