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Program Details
Date: Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Agenda: 8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast | 9:00 am - 1:00 pm Program
Location: Twenty Toronto Street Conferences and Events (OBA Conference Centre) | 20 Toronto St., 2nd Floor | Toronto, ON | M5C 2B8
This essential program will provide practical tips and advice to help you make the most of your articling experience. During this program, you will have access to lawyers in private, public, in-house and criminal practices. Masters, seasoned lawyers, and those fresh from the trenches will discuss topics such as the articling student “attitudes and characteristics to display”, practice management, networking, court and life after articling. If you want practical tips from those with experience (including LawPRO and the Law Society of Upper Canada), this is the program to attend.
Program Chairs: Natalie Reisman Breger, Chaitons LLP
David S. Lipkus, Kestenberg Siegal Lipkus LLP
9:00 am Introductory Remarks
9:05 am Practice Management
• Time management
• Conflict resolution
• Docketing practices
• Calendar maintenance
• The “paper trail”
• What to do if…
Yvonne Diedrick, Lawyers’ Professional Indemnity Company (LAWPRO)
9:30 am The Student and People in Your Office
• Qualities to show, attitudes to exhibit and perceptions to avoid
• Appropriate/inappropriate use of technology
• Learning the culture
• Working for, understanding and dealing with lawyers, clerks, assistant, students and other people in your office
•Interacting with and taking instructions from partners
Deborah Glatter, Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP
9:50 am Mentoring
Susannah Roth, O’Sullivan Estate Lawyers
10:00 am Networking Outside of the Office
• Why network?
• How to network
• Resources to help you brand and market yourself
Adrian Lomaga, Howie, Sacks & Henry LLP
10:15 am Break
10:30 am Clients
• Initial client interviews/meetings
• Corporate clients vs. individual clients
• Defining lawyer’s role and client’s role
• Reporting to clients
• Managing expectations and instructions
• The “I don’t know; what would you do?” client
Danny Kastner, Paliare Roland Rosenberg Rothstein LLP
10:50 am Motions Court
• When, where and how
• The current practices
• Ex-parte motions
• Regular motions
• Case management? What was that?
• Civility in the court room
• Referring to judges and masters inside and outside the court room
• How to have an order signed and entered
Master Joan M. Haberman, Superior Court of Justice
11:20 am Break to pick up lunch
11:30 am Life after Articling
(a)Current Market Conditions
•What are my options if I do not get hired back?
•How does the Law Society support its Articling students?
Daphne Simon, Associate Registrar, Law Society of Upper Canada
Angela Sordi, ZSA Recruitment
(b) Panel of Lawyers from Different Practice Areas
• What if I want to make a career change after articling?
• Opening your own practice
• Working in–house
• Alternative Careers
Melinda Ferlisi, Community Legal Clinic of York Region, a community legal aid clinic
Joseph Hillier, Royal Bank of Canada
Jason A. Meloche, Director, Business and Legal Affairs, White Pine Pictures
Jill Prenger, Region of Peel Crown Attorney’s Office
Jordan D. Sobel, Jordan D. Sobel, Barrister, Solicitor and Notary Public
1:00 pm Program Concludes
