In a letter to McGill Law alumni, Dean Robert Leckey reflects on the collective efforts of faculty members, staff, and students to come together during these extraordinary times.
February 2020
| Toute jeune, Véronique Faucher, BCL/LLB’02, rêvait d’être journaliste internationale. Bien qu’elle ne soit pas devenue journaliste, elle a quand même mené une carrière très internationale: après un saut vers Moscou, cette spécialiste de la gestion d’investissements est à présent à Londres et dirige une équipe paneuropéenne. |
December 2019
| Whether he’s advising a tech company on a venture capital partnership or brushing shoulders with celebrities on an awards show red carpet, it’s all in a day’s work for Reuven Ashtar, BCL/LLB’08. Ashtar, a start-up, media, and technology lawyer, also manages YouTube content creators through his company, Never Napping, in Toronto. |
November 2019
| Patricia Kosseim, BCL’92, LLB’92, has a palpable passion for her work. As Counsel for Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP’s Privacy & Data Management Group and National Co-leader of Osler’s AccessPrivacy knowledge platform, she engages in cutting-edge legal issues on a daily basis. She shares her career highlights with Focus online. |
October 2019
| Matthew Castel, BCL/LLB’13, and Peter Mantas, BCL/LLB’12, are doing law differently. Their Toronto-based Orion Legal Group is shaking up the traditional billable model of legal services and demonstrating how lawyers can be “growth leaders” to the businesses they serve. |
June 2019
| Le soleil était au rendez-vous pour la collation des grades du printemps 2019, au cours de laquelle le professeur émérite Irwin Cotler a reçu un doctorat honorifique. Voyez des photos et des extraits vidéo de la cérémonie. Lire la suite… |
April 2019
Année après année, nos diplômé.e.s s’illustrent dans la course pour les prestigieux postes d’auxiliaire juridique à la Cour suprême du Canada. Cette année ne fait pas exception ; cinq ressortissant.e.s de la Faculté prendront la direction du plus haut tribunal au pays en 2020-2021. Faites leur connaissance !
March 2019
Michael Shortt, BCL/LLB’13, was still dreaming of becoming G.I. Joe when his parents predicted that he would follow the footsteps of his grandfather and become a lawyer. “I was a very argumentative child,” he confessed. It took him somewhat longer to reach the same conclusion. But one day, when Professor Pierre-Emmanuel Moyse drew two penguins on a blackboard, Shortt knew he had found his calling. Read the interview.
December 2018
Over the last 10 years, one in five Supreme Court clerks has been a recent graduate of the Faculty. In keeping with tradition, there will be a strong McGill Law representation within the next cohort of Supreme Court clerks: last spring, eight of our graduating students or recent grads were tapped to clerk at the country’s highest tribunal in 2019-2020.
November 2018
Annamaria Enenajor, BCL/LLB’12 has become a leading advocate of amnesty for the half-million Canadians who carry a criminal record for simple possession of cannabis.
