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We had the pleasure of speaking with Evelyn Thompson-Smith, Director for Strategic Capital Planning for Central Zone at Alberta Health Services and alumnus of the Professional LLM in Health Law as well as The Osgoode Certificate in Fundamentals of Indigenous Peoples and Canadian Law. Evelyn told us of her experiences… Click to Continue Reading.
Eduardo Castro is an internationally trained lawyer and alumnus of the Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law. He is currently working as a legal assistant at Gottlieb Family Law Professional Corporation where he refines his communication, organization, customer service, legal writing and legal research skills in preparation for his next… Click to Continue Reading.
David Thomas is a program lawyer at Osgoode Professional Development (OsgoodePD). David grew up in a small village in Wales, received an education in Nottingham, England and ended up practising law in Toronto, Canada. Here is his journey in his own words. I studied law at Nottingham Trent University in… Click to Continue Reading.
Growing up in Mexico City, Solange Márquez Espinoza’s childhood home was filled with discussion of art, philosophy, and politics—and lots of talk about the law, thanks to her mother. “My mother gave my siblings and me a love of books and history and law,” says Márquez Espinoza today. Over the… Click to Continue Reading.
Key Takeaways from OsgoodePD’s webinar. Click to Continue Reading.
Growing up in a small town in Newfoundland, John Drover’s exposure to the legal profession didn’t extend much beyond what he saw on TV. Even after moving as a young adult to the province’s capital city, St. John’s, his career went “in a million directions” throughout his 20s. He managed… Click to Continue Reading.
In 2007, 25-year-old Johann Du Plessis was building a growing practice in tax law in Cape Town, South Africa, when tragedy struck—his father-in-law passed away in a car accident. He and his wife moved to neighbouring Namibia, his wife’s home country, to be closer to the grieving family. The move… Click to Continue Reading.
Hardeep Chahal remembers when his fascinating with the law began: a Grade 12 Law class with Mr. Olson at Norkam Secondary School in Kamloops, BC. Chahal grew up knowing he’d pursue a professional career, an ambition handed down from his father, an engineer who’d immigrated to Canada in 1969. Because… Click to Continue Reading.
Jena Karim doesn’t hold back when talking about the joys and heartbreaks of her work. At 41 years old, the U.S.-based Karim has spent the past two decades in the international-development field, working to strengthen new democracies around the world. That means, in her words, “election reform, fighting for transparent… Click to Continue Reading.
Long before anyone had heard of COVID-19, OsgoodePD was bringing Professional LLMs into students’ homes. In the last two decades, we have helped hundreds of people complete their studies via videoconferencing technology in places as far flung as the Cayman Islands, a Saskatchewan farm, rural Italy, and the mountains of… Click to Continue Reading.
Insight/TipsOsgoodePD Looks to the Future as it Builds on its Historical Strength in Online Learning
Who would have thought that a zipper-mouth emoji would be sufficient proof of a defamatory statement tweeted all by itself? In a 2020 case between two Sydney, Australian lawyers a judge considered just that. Referencing an online website, Emojipedia, the judge was satisfied that, in the specific circumstances of that… Click to Continue Reading.