The first-ever 2012 Twitter Moot will be held on Tuesday, February 21st, 2012, at 10am PST (1pm EST).  Omar Ha-Redeye will be one of three participating judges.  See more background on Slaw.

Current sponsors include Iler Campbell LLP, McCarthy Tetrault, Miller Thomson LLP, Saxe Law Corporation, Skunkworks Communications, and Willms & Shier Environmental Lawyers LLP.

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Omar Ha-Redeye will be judging the UCLA Cyber Crimes Moot Court Competition in Los Angeles, California, from April 6-8, 2012.

The nationwide competition is possible through the support of the Society for the Policing of Cyberspace (POLCYB) and Norton by Symantec.

Rules of the competition are available here.

Meagan Williams, UWO Law 2011 (Photo credit: Nick Fox-Gieg)

Jeff Gray of the Globe and Mail is focusing on the articling crisis for law students in Canada, with an interview with Megan Williams of UWO Law.  See more on Slaw.

The McGill Faculty of Law is posting online testimonials for Alexandra Dodger, who passed away this past weekend:

Add your testimonial by emailing Lysanne Larose.

See also  Quid Novi, Vol 33, no 6, 25 October 2011.

Speakers included:

Marian MacGregor, Executive Director, CLASP, Osgoode Hall Law School
Dean Lorne Sossin, Osgoode Hall Law School
Doug Ferguson, Director, Community Legal Services, University of Western Ontario
James Moliterno, Vincent Bradford Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, VA
Kim Brooks, Dean, Schulich School of Law, Dalhousie University
André Bacchus, Director of Professional Development, Heenan Blaikie LLP
Steve Perks, University of Victoria
Hope Buset, University of Manitoba
Alyssa Manning, Parkdale Community Legal Services
Claire McNeil, Dalhousie University
Donna Franey, Dalhousie University
Laura Pinto, Ontario Institute of Studies in Education
Annie Rochette, University of Quebec at Montreal
Nathalie DesRosiers, General Counsel, Canadian Civil Liberties Association and former Dean of Law, University of Ottawa
Marian McGregor, Osgoode Hall Law School
Sarah Buhler, University of Saskatchewan
Kristin Marshall, University of Toronto
Jason Voss, University of Western Ontario
Nancy Henderson, Parkdale Community Legal Services
James Moliterno, Washington and Lee
Richard Foster, Monash Oakleigh Legal Service, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Fred Zemans, Osgoode Hall Law School
Sarah Buhler, University of Saskatchewan
Gemma Smyth, University of Windsor
Vivian Hilder, University of Manitoba
Sarah Rauch, University of British Columbia First Nations Clinic
Michele Leering, Executive Director, Community Advocacy and Legal Centre, Belleville, ON
Faisal Bhabha, Assistant Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School

Notes on the future of articling in Ontario available on Slaw.

Target the law that you wish to do and then start to find firms that practice that area..and try to get on their radar screen. How? Use social media!  The best way I know of is to start working in that area – by building a blog and start getting known for your interest in a certain area.  Omar Ha-Redeye was a law student in Canada that started a blog as a student on health and reputation management law (he is now a called lawyer) and this blog gave him immense exposure well before he graduated and led to his being included in award-winning legal blogs as www.slaw.ca.  You can see Omar’s blog here.

Alumni Western held a Summer Denning at the Duke of Devon.  The new Dean of Law, W. Iain Scott, greeted alumni and current students.   Scott begins his 5-year term on

Sept. 1, 2011.

Sponsors included Compushare and Georgeson.

Giving birth is a painful process, even it it’s just a law review.

Suzie Chiodo, law student at the University of Western Ontario, wrote about the new student-run law review at the University of Western Ontario in the April 2011 edition of Amicus Cuirae:

Read more about the University of Western Ontario Journal of Legal Studies on Slaw.

Life After Law School Osgoode 2011

“A lot of these subjects were unfamiliar to me from law school. This course really helped with bar prep, which is otherwise self-study under tight timelines.”

— Omar Ha-Redeye, Western, 2010 CanBarPrep Student