Articles 2020

A key aspect of mentorship is ensuring that you establish mutually beneficial professional connections and focus on maintaining those relationships throughout your career, rather than just seeking out how others can support you.

Learning how to handle senior lawyers who are all-too-comfortable resorting to bullying is an essential part of any lawyer's toolbox. Here are some tips for dealing with those bullies. 

The practice of law is fraught with many challenges and a lot of skill, planning, and vigilance is required to navigate through the potential pitfalls. In this article, Michelle Wen Xiao Kang highlights the common traps that may lead to a potential LAWPRO claims and suggests ways that junior lawyers can reduce the risk of a claim being brought against them as a result of errors and omissions in performing their professional services.

Though no stranger to relocating and adapting, I found it challenging as a newcomer to Canada and as a law student because I knew absolutely nothing about Canadian society or Canadian law. Fast forward three years, and I am an articling student with the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General. So, what helped me land on my feet in Canada? If I was to offer one answer, it would be the conscious effort to build contextual intelligence.

It's never too early to think about developing your own client and referral bases as a junior lawyer. Read on to find out how you can expand your business network and some of the non-traditional ways to do so.