Articles 2020

As the store shelves slowly fill up with back to school essentials I am reminded of two things: one, I happily will never be a student again; and, two, I had a lot of awesome support getting me through my last year of law school while pregnant. I know there may be other women out there who are pregnant or thinking of getting pregnant while in law school and so this article gives my top 6 survival strategies to make it through 9 months of growing a baby and learning the law.

Despite having been written into the Ontario legal profession’s “moral code”, sexist language continues to be a problem in the practice of law. This is at least in part because our governing laws formally prohibit discrimination and harassment, but do not create a positive obligation to address repetitive, ubiquitous, and insidious forms of sexism that disempower women within the profession.

Superior Court of Justice Video Conferencing Pilot Project

Helpful tips to reinvigorate your search and get your name out there.

There is no end to the number of rules and practice tips which need to be considered when preparing for a trial, but here are 5 evidence rules to keep in mind to assist in being ready when a trial actually happens.