Increasing pressure from clients is forcing law firms to look at their diversity policies for both hiring and retention of minority and women lawyers.

Regina, entertainment law, the GTA beyond Bay St., securities law.

Faculties across the country are offering a slew of cutting-edge and innovative courses to prepare young lawyers for the future of law.

 

Law professors welcome one-on-one contact with students, just don’t bring chocolates.

 

After three months in Nairobi, I have concluded that the city is characterized by paradoxes. The hub of East Africa’s humanitarian-aid machine, it showcases large white UN 4x4s running rampant through the city streets, some of the best sushi in the world, and what tour companies advertise to be Africa’s largest slum.

Lawyers with experience ranging from nothing to six years share tales of starting their own practice.

Community support and expectations both pushed aboriginal student Doug White toward the law.

You’re sitting at your desk, hair dishevelled, suit jacket flung on the floor, papers and files scattered all over the place, and you’re scratching around in your head for the right words to put an end to the memorandum that a senior lawyer threw on your desk hours ago and expects before morning.

Law firm experience and a penchant for technical details will bode well for anyone interested in a career in the exploding area of compliance and regulatory law.

Michael Noonan shows off his pasta masterpiece.

Billion-dollar deals, court filings, and corporate takeovers mean plenty of hard work and long hours for wide-eyed law students when they accept a summer position at big Bay Street firms. Getting home for dinner isn’t always an option, but Cassels Brock’s 18 summer law students made sure that others in even more challenging circumstances didn’t have to worry about a home-cooked meal for at least two nights.