Thomas Conway: Law Students

Law Society Of Upper Canada Dept: Thomas Conway, treasurer of the Law Society of Upper Canada, said on Wednesday that many law students have chafed at the mandatory year including a friend he articled alongside many years ago, according to Globe and Mail. Heated debate last week at the law society s monthly convocation meeting revealed a deep schism within the legal profession over how to remedy a shortage of articling positions. One faction lauded articling as a venerable institution that gives law students a vital introduction to the realities of legal practice and video: Don t go to b-school in your home town She told me that her articling was a waste of a year of her life, Mr. Conway recalled in an interview. She didn t get the skills that she wanted in order to become the lawyer that she wanted to be. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.