Mix, Mingle & Be Merry with GLC Ontario
Shake off the January blues with GLC Ontario! Join fellow internationally and Canadian trained lawyers for an evening of networking and socializing. Date and time: January 15, 2020, from 5:30 – 7:30 PMLocation: Bier Markt, 58 The Esplanade, Toronto More info at rsvp.ontario@glcanada.org
GLC BC – Virtual golf event!
GLC BC is proud to host our next networking event at One Under Golf Vancouver for virtual golf! come meet other internationally trained lawyers and get into the swing of things. Please RSVP below: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/global-lawyers-of-canada-fall-social-tickets-79787980999
Christmas dinner party in Edmonton, join us!
GLC Alberta – Edmonton team is hosting a Christmas dinner party at Select Restaurant in Edmonton on 20 December 2019, from 7:30pm to 10:30pm. It’s a chance for fellow ITLs in the area to get together, have a few drinks and laughs, and continue building the ITL community. Please RSVP by texting/calling our directors Irvin […]
Engage and Learn – Oil and Gas: From Canada to Latin America
Global Lawyers of Canada is excited to invite you to our upcoming engage and learn event in Calgary, focused on the oil and gas industry, from Canada to Latin America. Three industry experts will provide their valuable perspective on how the current oil and gas industry in Canada and Latin America, the barriers most operators […]
New NCA Policy Manual!
As of Sep 1st this week, the National Committee on Accreditation (“NCA”), a standing committee of the Federation of Law Societies of Canada (“FLSC”) introduced its new Policy Manual, which replaces its revised January 1, 2018 Policies and Guidelines, with amended policies primarily affecting Canadian civil law graduates and applicants from non-common law jurisdictions. Aside […]
The road less taken: perspectives on law school in the UK
Daniel Lo graduated from the LLB for Graduates programme in 2009 and now works for international law firm Walkers. We asked him about his time at Birmingham and his career to date. “I have often let the pursuit of the road less taken dictate my career choices, possibly because of my natural inclination to try […]
Update to GLC WhatsApp groups!
As an update to last year’s post on GLC WhatsApp groups official launch, given the great response we have received from our ITL community currently going through the NCA process, we have decided to make these groups a permanent section within our Practicing in Canada subpage (click here from any device), and recategorize them as […]
How I failed one of my NCA exams
I remember how prepared I felt on the 14th of May, 2019. I was just excited to get the exams out of the way, after all, I started preparing around the end of March for the three courses: administrative law, foundations of Canadian law and constitutional Law. My biggest fear was administrative Law and the […]
Why Study Law Abroad
The phrase, “I went to Law School abroad”, is often met with two assumptions in the Canadian legal market: 1) the student didn’t do well on the LSAT and 2) as a result, wasn’t admitted into a Canadian law school. While these may be perfectly legitimate assumptions that hold true in some cases, they are […]
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