Lawyers in 1972 would not have guessed that the number
of licensing candidates would remain essentially constant over the next 25 years.
The regulatory body's first priority is a fair and accessible system that makes it possible for all
qualified licensing candidates to acquire the necessary skills to become lawyers, she says.
This was exactly the challenge that Ryerson University undertook in 2014 when it was awarded a contract by the Law Society of Upper Canada (LSUC) to develop and deliver the Law Practice Program (LPP), an eight month experiential training program
for licensing candidates that includes four months of «online» learning and four months of an in - person work placement.
Does the Articling Program provide
licensing candidates with effective transitional experiential training in defined areas of skills and tasks considered necessary for entry - level practice?
Within three years, the LPP has created a multi-teamed approach among groups across Ryerson University, in partnership with external service providers and the Ontario Bar Association, working with hundreds of members of the profession each year, to develop and deliver to hundreds of
licensing candidates training that effectively develops and assesses their key lawyering skills through simulated files.
Does the Law Practice Program
provide licensing candidates with effective transitional experiential training in defined areas of skills and tasks considered necessary for entry - level practice?
What caused the change was that the number of
licensing candidates in Ontario has increased significantly over the last 15 years or so while the number of articling positions has not kept pace.
Today, the representation of racialized lawyers continues to increase as the numbers of
racialized licensing candidates are now more in proportion with racialized members of the general population.
It creates a channel between
unemployed licensing candidates and the citizens who need but can not afford their services, and it does so without depending on government money which won't materialize.
Furthermore, the Majority approach will have disproportionately negative effects
on licensing candidates who are members of equity seeking groups — students who are already disadvantaged under the current licensing regime.
In 1820, the Law Society used to
require licensing candidates to give a translation of Cicero's Orations in order to show that the candidate had a liberal education and was proficient in English and Latin.
This Task Force was formed to address concerns about the articling program, and in particular relating to the growing number of
unplaced licensing candidates.
It is the opinion of Student Caucus, that the Minority Proposal adequately protects the public while providing a level playing field
for licensing candidates, furthering the profession's commitment to access to justice and equity.
On November 22, 2012, Convocation approved a three - year pilot project that will allow
lawyer licensing candidates to either article or complete a Law Practice Program, starting in the 2014 - 15 licensing year.
Conway says that group is the largest single source
of licensing candidates, and the majority of them are Canadians who studied abroad because they couldn't get into a law school here.
Candidates who graduated from regionally accredited baccalaureate program located out of state should follow the instructions provided for Academic Pathway to Teaching (APT)
license candidates.
If it's true that all or most of the LPP cost will be borne by
the licensing candidates, and not by LSUC, then the candidates may eventually be heard to grumble.
The second perspective is that of
the licensing candidates [16].
In any event, while the number of articling positions has substantially increased (to approximately 1,950 by 2016), there has been a gap for some time between the number of
licensing candidates and the number of articling positions.
Is it as great or at least OK for the wallets and prospects of law grads /
licensing candidates?
Expansion of the Lawyer Annual Report to include a practice category for Aboriginal law and led to the development of mentoring and networking programs for Aboriginal law students,
licensing candidates and lawyers.
It is also encouraging that, in relation to this issue of fairness / access, Peter Wardle has drawn attention to the potential barrier posed by the significant cost of the universal licensing fee — at least, as discussed in Part 1, for
those licensing candidates whose fees are not paid by their employers and, among those, especially for candidates undertaking the unpaid portions of the LPP / PPD program.
All licensing candidates must take both the solicitor and barrister exams, regardless of if they only want to be a barrister or solicitor.
We know that law students and
licensing candidates are facing an increasingly competitive, costly and rapidly changing certification process in the midst of diminishing law jobs.
Now in its third year, the LPP has provided nearly 700
licensing candidates the opportunity to develop and be assessed on these vital lawyering skills needed to complete their experiential training component and, as a result, provided an otherwise unavailable pathway to becoming licensed to practise law in Ontario.
It includes a law practice program to run simultaneously with articling, but provide an alternative path to licensing and culminating in a final assessment for
all licensing candidates.
The number of foreign trained
licensing candidates was less than 100.
How does each pathway, LPP and Articling, support
the licensing candidates» opportunity to obtain the transitional experiential training requirement of the licensing process?
«We continue to strongly advocate for firms and organizations to pay
all their licensing candidates — both those enrolled in the LPP and those completing the articling program,» the statement says.
This discrepancy is far likelier to be traced back to
the licensing candidate's performance in law school — and I strongly suspect that it's precisely those students who performed below the average in law school who have greater trouble landing an articling job, and who are therefore likelier to enter the LPP.
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