law career

Lawyer Disbarred for Student Debt

April 16, 2009 01:56

As reported by The Globe and Mail, Houston-based lawyer Frank Santulli has been stripped of his licence to practice law because of his student debt. Santulli has carried US$67,000 in outstanding loans since 1998 and failed to follow a plan to repay them: A Texas appeals court said lawyer Frank...

Amicus Curiae sits down with Justice Binnie of the Supreme Court of Canada

April 05, 2009 04:06

Ahmed Farahat of UWO’s new law paper interviews Justice Binnie. If I can start by asking you: when did you first decide to embark on a career in law? I think when I was in college. I arrived at it by a process of elimination. I could see all sorts of jobs that I was congenitally incapable...

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination

March 22, 2009 00:38

International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination: Racial Minorities, particularly Blacks, in Ontario Have very little to Cheer about or Celebrate (written March 10, 2000; first updated September 17, 2004; second update March 21, 2009) by S. Pieters, B.A. (Criminology), LL.B....

What law firms are looking for

February 25, 2009 18:43

Léna Taylor, Director of Student Programs at McCarthy Tétrault, answers your questions, Law students and new lawyers have a variety of things to worry about, from finding a job in this job market, to figuring out what kind of law they’d like to practice, especially with rapidly emerging areas ...

The Wall

February 23, 2009 03:19

The Wall has to be one of the most common reasons people don’t pursue their academic careers further than they do.  Almost all people run into it eventually.  Most of us hit it in undergrad, and the remainder hit it in post-graduate or professional school. It’s easy to tell who never h...