At least some of them will be doing those jobs because, for whatever reason, they didn't get into law school or they got in and had to leave without completing law school.
But when law firms see foreign degrees that aren't from world prestigious schools they see one of two things; someone who couldn't get into law school in Canada and went abroad, or someone who has been practicing abroad and likely doesn't know much about Canadian law.
Wannabe lawyers, doctors, dentists, engineers, architects, journalists, etc. do
not get into law school, medical school, dental collage etc., etc., respectively, unless they have first graduated from university.
Not exact matches
When his grades weren't good enough to
get into law school, he sat on a bench outside the dean's office for seven days until they finally let him enroll.
It's the
law and people like Mr. Yearwood (who in my opinion is an arrogant and insensitive man) does
not care if a concerned mother like Mrs. Kimberly Puccia (who was only waiting to make sure that her child
got into the dance
school building safely) receive's a ticket by one of his Traffic Agent's under his command.
I was never comfortable with the unknown and more than worrying about whether or
not I'd
get into a good
law school or become a successful attorney, I felt monumental confusion over what I really wanted to do, who I really wanted to be.
While
not all leaders of other private religious institutions have embarked on lobbying campaigns to
get school vouchers enacted
into state
law, it's worth highlighting another one of those
schools that stands to gain from the Opportunity Scholarship Program as an example of the lengths to which taxpayer funds will fund religious education.
We know you have strong writing skills, you couldn't have
gotten into law school without them.
If your powers of persuasion haven't helped you
get into law school yet, you can put them to good use as an entrepreneur.
Not everyone has this type of knowledge (although I suppose I could have gone to grad school and not law school, biogeological cycles would have been an interesting area to get into) so we do need experts to explain complicated topi
Not everyone has this type of knowledge (although I suppose I could have gone to grad
school and
not law school, biogeological cycles would have been an interesting area to get into) so we do need experts to explain complicated topi
not law school, biogeological cycles would have been an interesting area to
get into) so we do need experts to explain complicated topics.
Are the people recruited those who could
not get into Canadian
law schools, or those who don't want to wait to have a first degree, or perfectly competent folks for whom the Canadian
schools just did
not have room?
Their prospective students can't
get into top tier
schools, but are savvy enough to know all about the non-profit
schools» misrepresentation of how many of their graduates
get law jobs.
Many women want to
get into a great
law school, but still aren't sure about the best ways to prepare.
I don't have the stats, Steven, but you're right that few students
get into Canadian
law schools now without a bachelor's degree.
We bought at the height of the housing bubble in 2007, one of those bend - you - over, no - money - down, first (and second) mortgages that only an idiot young
law grad like myself would
get into (because
law school taught me everything there is to know about mortgages and home - buying, if
not how
not to be stupid).
Something someone from a
law school selection committee told me before I even
got accepted
into law school was, «No, it does
not matter that you have a graduate degree.
I would make it harder to
get into law school, so that there are
not so many people with massive debts chasing the much lower number of training contracts
Those behind the Ryerson proposal say the
school is necessary as there are a lot of Ontario residents that study abroad because they can
not get into the province's existing
law schools.
«From a journalistic perspective, we want someone who'll present their own work, who will have an impact, and bring students
into the process, who'll learn there are different skill sets (related to journalism) that we don't necessarily
get access to» at
law schools.
It seems odd that those students who worked their butts off to graduate in the top half of their class or to
get into a good
law school (i.e.,
not Bond university) should have to subsidize the C - students or the trust fund brats who went to Bond because daddy wanted them to be a lawyer.
Should we
not be counting the very significant numbers of Canadian students attending foreign
law schools (possibly because they could
not get into Canadian
schools) then wanting to article here?
When a first year student's opportunity to learn about equality is reduced to a one - time course, it is
not too surprising that values like diversity and equality do
not necessarily
get transferred from
law schools into legal practice.
Getting into law school is
not easy.
We're already deciding between how well a Canadian
Law School candidate performed compared to others, so why would someone who couldn't even
get into that competition really rank?
Like it or
not, being able to
get into a Canadian
law school is a metric to use to decide who might be a top candidate.
Soon, it will be the season for chucking mortar boards
into the air as
law students celebrate their success in securing the all important First or 2.1 degree to qualify them to join an ever growing list of contributors to the profits of the vocational
law schools and join a list of highly qualified «legal technicians», working for little above the minimum wage, if they can't
get that all important training contract or pupillage.
By the way — this is
not to denigrate mature students — if one can
get into a
law school as a mature student, without any form of undergraduate degree, then what does that say about the claim that the JD indicates the
law school degree is a 2d professional degree?
«This gap between being eligible for legal aid and being able to afford counsel that she fell
into meant she wasn't able to
get the legal assistance that could have prevented the crime from happening,» said Lorne Sossin, dean of Osgoode Hall
Law School, addressing members of the legal community who came together last week in Toronto to launch the second year of Flip Your Wig For Justice, the pledge - based fundraiser, which aims to raise awareness as well as money for access to justice programs in Ontario.
Getting a great job immediately after
law school is top of many students» priorities, but isn't the only consideration in deciding whether to pursue a broad scope of study or delve
into certain subject areas in more detail.
Last week the ABA «s Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar decided
not to
get into the business of accrediting foreign
law schools.
So, they have individual sessions themselves in the academic track but then part of what they baked
into the programming was actually going out and attending sessions that are relevant to
law schools and faculty, and talking to vendors in the hall and really
getting a better feel for what practice management means and why it's so important to start teaching in
law school because as we all know they don't, and as a whole, I mean, there is obviously a few
schools that do, but as a whole it's
not part of a standard curriculum and they are very excited about that and they even have one co-session that they are doing with the incubator consortium that's being held at the exact same time.
Correction Third paragraph, twelve lines down should read: «Backing up, just anyone with a high
school education or even a University education with only so - so marks «can
not»
get into law school or medical
school in the first place.»
While lawyers may value their sphere of influence, it shouldn't have much to do with
getting into law school.