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Legal Aid Ontario starts anywhere in the range of 50-80k. Even considering the cost of attending law school, I personally do not think an 80-100k salary is mediocre. Government policy and law adjacent jobs pay a lot less over time than what lawyers in the public sector can make—150-220k as a 5+ year call.
- Undergraduate Degree. Although a JD program is an undergraduate degree, it requires a prior undergraduate degree for admission. A 3-year or a 4-year undergraduate degree may be required, which will depend on the law school you want to enter.
- Grade Point Average (GPA) One Canadian law school requirement that is given much weight is your GPA score. Most law schools require a GPA that is equivalent or above 3.7 or A- or 80%.
- Law School Admission Test (LSAT) Along with the GPA, the LSAT is another requirement that schools and universities are particular with. On the average, law schools in Canada require an LSAT score of 160 above.
- Letters of Recommendation or References. One to two letters of recommendation may be part of Canadian law schools’ requirements. Some law schools treat this as an optional requirement.
- Earn a bachelor's degree. To qualify for admission to a law program, you must have first finished your bachelor’s degree or post-secondary studies, even though the Juris Doctor (JD) program is also an undergraduate degree.
- Take the LSAT (Law School Admission Test) Studying law in Canada requires that you have taken your LSAT before applying to a law school. In most cases, the LSAT must be taken or written a year or two before the deadline for admissions.
- Apply to a law school. After completing a bachelor’s degree and taking your LSAT, now it’s time to apply to the law school of your choice. You will have to enroll in the JD program, the required degree to practice law in the common law provinces of Canada.
- Earn the law degree. Once you’ve been accepted in a law school or in a faculty of law, your journey to becoming a lawyer officially starts. The first year in law school is concentrated on teaching students the basics of the Canadian legal system.
In the United States, there are four states that allow a person to qualify to take the bar exam without attending any law school: California, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington. Instead, the student studies between three and four years in a law office. Each state has their own rules regarding reading the law, but all require that the student ...
- There Is A Lot of Reading.
- There Is No Single ‘Eureka!’ Moment, But It Does All Come Together eventually.
- There Is A Rat Race, But You Don’T Need to Join It (Straight away).
- You Need to Sweat The Small Stuff.
- Everyone Is Going to Ask You For Legal Advice. and You Won’T Want to Give it.
- It Can Be Absolutely Fascinating — Especially When You Think It Won’T be.
- Being A Law Student Is What You Want It to be.
Just to get the scary one out of the way first, it is difficult to explain how much reading a law degree involves other than to say that there are a lot of law books! Law students get a reputation for clocking up the library hours because each week you need to learn what the law actually is and academics’ opinions of it from scratch, and neither of...
Certain areas of law, particularly contract and tort, deal with different types of human action but are so similar in places that they often ‘run out’ just as the other one starts. As you usually learn only a few topics at a time you may not understand one fully until you have covered the next one. It is absolutely normal to feel a little like you’...
The law students aren’t considered the quickest off the mark for getting involved in applications and internships early on in their degree, but it’s a close one! More and more law firms are offering placements and taster days during the first year of university so it is tempting to think that you need to get involved in deciding your career choice ...
The ‘sharp mind’ you need for university study comes in different varieties, and each degree demands a particular mix of certain skills. Law requires both absolute command of the details of legislation and cases, and a wider view of how different areas interlock and what they (aim to) achieve. This is shown most clearly in the two main types of exa...
Somewhat ironically, the more law you know the less confident you become definitively stating what the legal position in a certain area is. You are, after all, focusing on the more controversial and uncertain areas of law so it is easy to forget that some are actually quite simple and clear-cut. There also comes a week where you learn about liabili...
Perhaps the really big thing to know about an English law degree is that there are subjects which (i) you have to study (ii) you expect you won’t enjoy. This is an unfortunate side-effect of the fact that law degrees are at heart vocational and so you study certain areas which are crucial to the smooth functioning of society but aren’t considered t...
Perhaps I’m giving the impression that law students spend their whole lives in the library learning statutes back to front, and that when they do emerge it’s to go to networking events, apply to careers or to sit exams. This just isn’t true. As with any other subject, university is exactly what you make of it and that will invariably (and should!) ...
Comparison Table of Law Schools in Canada. There are several factors that you should take into account when choosing a law school. First, you should assess your chances of acceptance. For that, you need to look at the school’s entry requirements like the LSAT, GPA, and admission rate for an academic year. Second, you must consider the tuition ...
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Oct 11, 2021 · INTRODUCTION Law schools have a mixed relationship with the universities of which they are a part. Subject to the universities’ rules, law schools nevertheless also give the impression of having an “independent” status. In Nothing Less than Great: Reforming Canada’s Universities (“Nothing Less than Great“) (University of Toronto Press, 2021), Harvey P. Weingarten assesses the […]
