Life skills and career tips for Canada's lawyers in training
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30 F a l l 2 0 1 4 C A N A D I A N L a w y e r 4 s t u d e n t s JAnette LOnG, sole practitioner Practising in Windsor, Ont. PROS: + • Windsor is a small, close-knit community with a small criminal bar and a small family law bar. is means we o en have knowledge of and hopefully a positive working relationship with other counsel, which would assist in addressing matters. • There are various legal plans available, i.e.: Unifor, Greenshield, Power Workers, and Legal Aid, in addition to private paying clients. • Because Windsor is a small community, it does not take a long time to get to the court house from any law offi ce and the judges are known to us. • Although this is a working-class town, there is a good variety in the cases, so work continues to be interesting and challenging. • ere is less work pressure in Windsor, than in a city like Toronto, and one's work and home life can be more easily balanced. CONS: – • There is high unemployment in Windsor, and many clients have limited funds. • There are also many autoworkers with Unifor coverage. It is good that they have coverage for 12 hours of legal work paid by the Unifor plan but it is at a rate of pay less than legal aid, depending on your years of practice. • There are few salaried positions available. Most lawyers do not have a base pay but earn income based solely on their earnings. e more you work, the more you bill and collect, the greater you earn. * For more than a century Black's Law Dictionary® has been the gold standard for the language of law. Today it's the most widely cited law book in the world. The new 10th edition contains more than 50,000 terms. Features in this edition • More than 7,500 terms new to this edition, including affluenza defense, bioweapon, cryptanalysis, gazump, hacker, legaldygook, intrapreneur, mommy track, one-bite rule, psephology, unperson, and zero-tolerance law • 16,000 new definitions and expanded bibliographic coverage, with more than twice as many sources quoted and cited than in the 9th Edition • Earliest usage dates in English language contexts for nearly all terms (Black's is the only legal dictionary with this feature) • Trusted authority – every term has been reviewed for accuracy by attorneys across the country • Definitions of more than 1,000 law- related abbreviations and acronyms • Pronunciation guidance • Thoroughly reviewed and edited Latin maxims, with 900 new maxims added The gold standard for the langauge of law New edition Black's Law Dictionary®, 10th Edition Bryan A. Garner, Editor in Chief Available risk-free for 30 days Order online: www.carswell.com Call Toll-Free: 1-800-387-5164 In Toronto: 416-609-3800 Order # L314-613004- 65205 $81.95 USD Jurisdiction: USA Hardcover May 2014 West 00219CE-A43836 Shipping and handling are extra. Price subject to change without notice and subject to applicable taxes.