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While efforts have been made to address the gender pay gap in many professions, more work and education is still needed to achieve parity. The gap that many lawyers experience is shared by other professionals, such as physicians.
...read moreHappy New Year everyone! We can’t think of a better way to honor the past than with our second LiL Round Up; a compilation of our top 5 Life in Law Blog posts from the past four months. Check out our full list of posts below:
...read moreDear Out of My League: Know you are not alone in how you are feeling. I would hazard a guess that most articling students feel out of their league, at least some of the time. I know I did. It comes with the territory. We learn all sorts of valuable things in law school, but often we still arrive on our first day of articles feeling ill-equipped to tackle the assignments that come our way (let alone the other aspects of articling that we must navigate). I recall one of my very first assignments (as a fresh-faced summer articling student) was drafting an opinion letter for the managing partner. I will admit I was slightly terrified. As I worked on it there was one pesky thought playing on a loop in my head: I’m just a second-year law student, how…
...read moreI don’t know about you, but I have spent hours, if not days, of my professional life second guessing myself. It is hard not to when we have all these noises in our head influencing our belief in our capabilities. However, it is not just the noises in our head that are at play. There are concrete examples of biases and societal expectations that are continuing to oppress our development as lawyers and our confidence in the belief we deserve to stand on the front line too.
...read moreIf you are in your first few years of practice like me, I bet you’ve already been given the spiel: “Don’t quit in the first five years. It gets better”. I used to hear this all the time when I was an articling student and I always thought people were over exaggerating. What’s so hard about this – isn’t it just a job? Nothing can be worse than the LSAT, I am sure I will be fine.
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