Jaiba: What is the CDC'S role at the school? Alex: Yeah, so, our mandate is to help law students feel supported. And help them carve their own career path. And so we hope to help students discover what they're interested in and what they'd like to do, set their goals and help them achieve them. We have a lot of different types of tools and services that we offer students in order to help them achieve those goals. Students are welcome to use our services, such as one-on-one appointment bookings and attending programming. Some of them may be panels for some kind of career exploration, or we have other resources and tools for preparing for interviews and drafting cover letters and resumes, So we're kind of a hub ...

I think I speak for a lot of law students when I say this: no matter how much we are doing, it never feels like enough ...

If you are a first-year law student and feel like you are one cold call away from being publicly exposed as a fraud, you've come to the right place ...

“The 17-minute OCI interview is already overwhelming enough for any student, but for racialized students like myself, the process carries additional complexities that go beyond the normal anxieties of job hunting. While I speak primarily from my own experiences about the challenges that I faced, I do feel that these experiences are likely to resonate with others. Through conversations with peers from various racialized backgrounds, I’ve seen themes of bias, code-switching, and the burden of representing diversity repeated across experiences.” ...

Recruitment is one of the most exciting yet challenging experiences a law student faces. To shed light on what large Bay Street firms look for in their candidates and what a summer program at a big firm looks like, I spoke with Stikeman Elliott’s Student Program Director, Rona Ghanbari, and Avery Chisholm, a 3L student in the English Common Law Program who summered at the firm ...