2023

According to experts, the onset of most mental health issues happens in your early 20s.

How BC made pandemic-era legal disputes simple and safe with the online Civil Resolution Tribunal.

If you want to see the impact of our Charter, our Constitution and our laws everywhere including behind bars, there is not better place to be than correctional law.

Law school can be hard but it is also easy to just go about it poorly. December exams are often difficult for first-year law students and one or two exams typically count for 100 per cent of a final grade in a course.

Imagine you have been working at a job you enjoy for a short period of time. Suddenly, you are being fired because the employer has discovered that you have a criminal record. You are unable to find another job that you are qualified for and that does not require a clean record check.

Law school is an incredibly stressful environment in general, and stress levels have been escalating drastically as COVID-19 continues to spread.

Law is a profession where who you know matters. With the right connections, opportunities become more readily available. For first generation law students, though, the ‘who you know’ is generally thinner and more difficult to access.

There are few sprawling urban skylines in Winnipeg, and the downtown core is a fraction the size of sone of the larger Canadian cities.

As I write this, I’m a month away from beginning my articles and it’s a bit strange to be at this stage. A student no more, but not yet a lawyer.

I immigrated to Canada from El Salvador in 2010. Very soon after arriving I decided to pursue a career as a lawyer. One of the challenges I faced was not having access to inside knowledge about the process I had to follow – I knew no lawyers, law students or law professionals who could share their journey with me.