up career-building for w students Shadow Program through which students spend the day with a lawyer practising in an area they are interested in learning more about.” In terms of programming on campus, Banting says there is a wide array of events and workshops that will give law students an edge when it comes to building a career after law school. She highlights the new Resume Labs, where upper-year teams review first-year students’ resumes and give feedback on how to improve them, a LinkedIn starter session, and the Osler BizBasics seminars run by Osler, Hoskin and Harcourt LLP. The BizBasics seminar series is meant to help law students gain an overview of the hard and soft skills necessary for careers in law. Banting says Queen’s CDO has a flexibility and ability to test out ideas that allows these sorts of unique opportunities for students. That’s not all. Queen’s Law also offers students one-on-one counselling, as well as opportunities to explore career options with counsellors and alumni who make themselves available to students for this purpose. “In the customized experience students have with the CDO,” says Banting, “Queen’s has a competitive advantage over other law schools.”
— JEREMY MUTTON
Osler BizBasics launches
ANDREW VAN OVERBEKE
Four representatives from Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP kicked off Osler BizBasics, a four-part series organized and hosted by the firm to provide first-year Queen’s Law students with foundational insight into the knowledge, skills and acumen necessary for the successful practice of law.
Speaking on “Demystifying Business Law” in Macdonald Hall on October 24 were (l-r) Brandon Kerstens, Law’14, Douglass Dawson, Law’14, Patrick Welsh, Law’10, and James Clinton, Law’16.
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