Event
The Future of Legal Education
Tuesday, January 16, 2018 17:30to19:00
Chancellor Day Hall
Maxwell Cohen Moot Court (NCDH 100), 3644 rue Peel, Montreal, QC, H3A 1W9, CA
Price:
Free. RSVP.
McGill's Faculty of Law and Thomson Reuters invite you to a round table discussion focusing on the future of legal education and how to capture the opportunity and address the challenges of a rapidly changing legal profession:
- What training will the lawyers of the future need to be successful?
- Are future lawyers being encouraged to think broadly enough about the scope of possibilities that a legal education offers?
- What are the changing expectations of employers of law graduates?
- To what extent do those training future lawyers need to evolve?
Our panel will be composed of professionals representing a cross-section of the legal community. They will candidly discuss and debate current issues surrounding the future of legal education. In attendance will be representatives of private practice, in-house, academia, judiciary and the law schools. The event will be followed by a cocktail reception.
Places are limited. .
Panelists
- Jean-François Gaudreault-DesBiens, Dean, Faculty of Law, Université de Montréal
- Shahir Guindi, National Co-chair, Osler
- Louise Otis, Civil and commercial mediator and arbitrator, and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
- Kim Thomassin, Executive Vice-President, Legal Affairs and Secretariat, Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec
- Juanita Westmoreland-Traoré, Retired judge, Court of Quebec
- Moderated by Robert Leckey, Dean, Faculty of Law, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ
Eligible for mandatory continuing legal education credit (Barreau du Québec, Chambre des notaires du Québec – 1 hour and 15 minutes.
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