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Gain international legal experience with an overseas organization: Check!

My experience with the Young Lawyers Internal Program.

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended life for many of us in various ways. In just a few months, life as we knew it took a drastic turn and forced many of us to rethink our plans and get creative about how to make them happen.

CBA Young Lawyers Section Succeeds in Building Virtual Legal Communities through Coffee in the Times of COVID.

In our second installment, we asked Lonny Rosen and Joshua Lerner the same nine questions and recorded their responses. Lonny is an experienced health law advocate and founding partner of Rosen Sunshine LLP, while Joshua is a fourth-year associate at the firm.

An interview with Nada Nicola-Howorth and Zahra Vaid.

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.

With a surge in the number of new legal tech startups come concerned citizens warning that lawyers will soon be replaced by artificial intelligence. The prediction of Singularity – a point in time when AI will be indistinguishable from human intelligence – is said to occur around 2040.

With the new crop of students beginning their articles in June 2020, comes a new program to teach and assess their competencies. The Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society will be rolling out a new skills course along with three other provincial law societies. The program is called the Practice Readiness Education Program, and it was developed by the Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education, in consultation with the NSBS and the other law societies adopting the program.