Peter A. Allard School of Law (University of British Columbia)
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Admission 2024 - UDEM
Ah, je suis dans le même cas que toi ! J'espère aussi 🙂 -
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Admission 2024 - UDEM
Salut tout le monde, Est-ce que certains ont été ajoutés à la liste d'attente ? C'est mon cas, j'ai été ajouté à la liste d'attente le 12 avril. Je stresse beaucoup. L'année dernière, ceux dans la liste d'attente sont tous rentrés dans le programme. Donc il y'a de fortes chances que ce soit comme ça cette année aussi, on croise les doigts !😩 -
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Accepted to Western 2024
Offer received April 8 General, LSAT 162, Cgpa 3.65 Will probably be accepting! -
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Accepted to Queens 2024
Offer given on April 12 General, LSAT 162, Cgpa 3.65 Will probably be declining. -
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Accepted 2024 - Windsor
Offer given Jan 17 LSAT 162, Cgpa 3.65 Declined today -
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Do I have a chance for New York 2L Summer Position?
So if I work at a global firm in Canada, is it hard to move to its NY office after working for a few years? -
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Help! I want to be a solicitor but I have a clerkship lined up
This is very simple and good advice. I think I will give both a good shot during articling and see which I prefer.- 1
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Help! I want to be a solicitor but I have a clerkship lined up
This feels reminiscent of the "true scientists" debates from my undergrad. https://xkcd.com/435/ I think this applies here, with criminal defense lawyers being firmly being at the high end of the scale.- 1
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Accepted UAlberta 2024
Yeah, that’s holistic rounds. It’s not a separate “general” and “discretionary” stream you specify when you apply. UofA doesn’t give that option. It’s either Indigenous or General, with a holistic approach later on in the cycle. That wasn’t what the person before had asked - it’s hard to gauge if you were a holistic admit or a general admit for this school. -
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Help! I want to be a solicitor but I have a clerkship lined up
It’s obviously rare, because most people who clerk want to be lawyers, but a few former clerks I know have decided to give up and become solicitors 🙂- 3
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Accepted UAlberta 2024
UofA actually does. The candidates whose stats are not included in the admitted applicant profile are/were assessed holistically. Holistically admitted applicants are different from general candidates in one main way: the use of their personal statement in their admission. While all statements are read, personal statements for holistically admitted candidates’ personal statement are a determining factor in their admission whereas general candidates are admitted on their stats alone. UofA does not explicitly disclose to candidates which category they were admitted under when extending an offer (as of now) and I do not know if they would tell you if asked. Source: Admission Series | UAlberta -
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Help! I want to be a solicitor but I have a clerkship lined up
My two cents... just pursue the type of work you're interested in from the start. If your firm has an issue with you leaving to clerk, well... plenty of fish in the sea. At least you have some solicitor experience to put on your resume/talk about in interviews. Otherwise you're in a position where you've done a litigation-focused articling term, a clerkship, and now you're trying to convince someone who doesn't know you that they should hire you for a non-litigation role. Also, if you end up disliking the solicitor work during articling, you shouldn't really have a problem moving in the other direction and finding a litigation role after your clerkship.- 1
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Help! I want to be a solicitor but I have a clerkship lined up
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.” The above is a dramatic way of saying I think its an odd decision to focus on litigation during articling, try to get hired back as a litigator and do a clerkship so that you can end up a solicitor. I think you should focus on solicitor work as an articling student and try to get hired back as one - I would be surprised if your firm would be happy with you pulling a 180 on them after hireback. As to the clerkship, I personally don't know anybody who clerked and then had a solicitor practice except for one tax lawyer, but I doubt it's fatal. Just unusual and has a chance of being a complete waste of time.- 1
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Maybe to early to chance?
How does OLSAS view my repeated course which I did not fail initially - For context I went to York and my transcript shows a (C+ NCR) - will they use the grade or count it as a 0.00?? -
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Help! I want to be a solicitor but I have a clerkship lined up
I am a current 3L. I was lucky and got a clerkship for 2025-2026, so I will be articling and then clerking. I have recently decided I want to be a solicitor and go into corporate work at my firm. I would love to have a solicigator practice, but my firm makes us chose only one (litigation or solicitor) and we can't do both really after articling. Can anyone give me advice or lmk their experience navigating wanting to get a hire back for solicitor work, but leaving after articling for a clerkship? I have thought about doing litigation work during my articling year (and trying to do some of the solicitor work I want to do), getting a hire back offer for litigation, but once I finish my clerkship, telling my firm I would like to switch to corporate solicitor work OR asking them to let me do both solicitor and litigation in the niche area I want to work in. When it comes down to it, if I had to pick, I would pick solicitor. I just worry it's a negative to my hire back (and career?) to want to go into a solicitor group, but then leave for a clerkship after articling. I would also love to hear from people who clerked but didn't do litigation. Just to clarify, I still want to clerk, I think it will be such an amazing experience.
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