Category Archives: Legal Education

Petition

Posted on April 8, 2017 by

Teaching course in “Legal Accounting” at the law school, in the mid-1980s. Course relating to law office management, but also including introductory financial accounting. Very introductory, but necessary. Remember meeting one of my recently-qualified legal colleagues, one year after commencement … Continue reading →

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Delegation II

Posted on December 4, 2016 by

R. Douglas Elliott, at the 2016 Osgoode Forum on Administrative Law and Practice, commenting on the actions of various law societies in deferring to a central body of law deans to tell the various provincial law societies whether a law … Continue reading →

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Constant

Posted on November 15, 2016 by

Needed to mark some accounting exams. Decided to go to the law library. Knew it well, 1973-1976. Three years, day and night. Back, on occasion. Such as this. Some different configurations, but same tables and desks. Different people, same feeling. … Continue reading →

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What the law student doesn’t know II

Posted on May 18, 2016 by

Wrote about the problems of legal education and lawyer qualification here and here, among other commentaries. Related themes from a 2009 article by Jordan Furlong, “The crossed purposes of legal education“: One of the signs that change is underway in … Continue reading →

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Insecure Excellence

Posted on April 8, 2016 by

Have discussed the weak qualification process for lawyers in Ontario and, it appears, in terms of the questionable acceptable quality of various Canadian law degrees, throughout common law provinces in Canada. Have compared the qualification processes for professional accountants, which … Continue reading →

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List and Filter

Posted on May 15, 2015 by

There was a time, at least through the 1970s, when law firms actively sought particular law students, rather than there being a more formalized selection process of law students in a general applicant pool for articling positions. At the University … Continue reading →

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Susan Cavan

Posted on February 26, 2015 by

She was in the same section as I was in one of the Ontario Bar Admission Course classes, 1977-1978. Back when there were classes at the Ontario Bar Admission Course, thus enabling students from different schools and backgrounds to get … Continue reading →

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