Alumni Spotlight
Ashkan Alavi can pinpoint the moment he set his sights on a career in scientific research. While watching the documentary Einstein’s Universe – a 1979 production commissioned to mark 100 years since the birth of probably the world’s most famous scientist – the teenaged Alavi could feel his burgeoning passion… Click to Continue Reading.
Alejandro Beltran’s 2017 graduation from OsgoodePD’s Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law was a landmark moment in more ways than one. As well as a celebration of his latest achievement in a legal career that started in his home country Colombia, it also marked a turning point on Beltran’s professional… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightOsgoode’s Canadian Common Law LLM was Alejandro Beltran’s career turning point
With a name like Justice Agyemang, there was an element of destiny in his choice of profession. “I knew quite early that I wanted to go into law,” says Agyemang, now a senior legal counsel in the commercial banking, global trade and receivables finance department at HSBC Bank Canada. “It… Click to Continue Reading.
Just two years after arriving in Canada, the place is already starting to feel like home to Juan Higuera. “It has been quite an adventure, but I can say that we are finally settled,” says Higuera, who had spent several years practising law in Mexico before enrolling in OsgoodePD’s Professional… Click to Continue Reading.
For Patricia Cavalhier, it was an opportunity she thought she’d never see again. When the Toronto resident immigrated to Canada from Brazil with her family in 2010, she assumed that giving up her career as an accomplished lawyer was simply a sacrifice she’d have to make. Her legal background in… Click to Continue Reading.
Imran Noorani’s work history divides neatly around his 2018 graduation from OsgoodePD’s part-time Professional LLM in Energy and Infrastructure Law. “It actually had a pretty profound impact on my career track and my life,” he says. In his pre-Osgoode years, Noorani had already earned an MBA from York University’s Schulich… Click to Continue Reading.
Big changes are no big deal for Francisco Rojas. Soon after arriving in Canada from Ecuador to enrol in Osgoode’s Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law, Rojas set his sights on a corporate or commercial law position. To the casual observer, the choice might have appeared unusual for someone like… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightHow a Professional LLM in Canadian Common law helped Francisco Rojas make a career pivot
Just a few months after arriving in Toronto, the place is starting to feel like home for Hongqi Liu. During Liu’s short time in the city, the OsgoodePD International Entrance Award winner has found his transition smoothed by the ways in which his new surroundings are reminiscent of the Chinese… Click to Continue Reading.
As Juan Carlos Diaz Garcia neared the end of his law school studies in Bogota, Colombia, a family crisis helped him discover his true professional calling. “My father was having a problem with an assessment the tax authorities had made and I wanted to figure out a way that I… Click to Continue Reading.
Alumni SpotlightJuan Carlos Diaz Garcia: Realizing your potential through a law degree in taxation
We had the pleasure of sitting down with Patricia Cavalhier, director of legal services at TVOntario and alumna of Osgoode’s Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law to discuss her professional journey and how she got to where she is today. Patricia completed her LLB at Universidade Católica do Salvador, in… Click to Continue Reading.
More than 30 years after he left the engineering field, Pierre’s professional roots have never been too far from the surface as he built himself a new career in the legal field. Long before he became the lead intellectual property counsel at CCM Hockey in Montreal, Pierre’s lifelong fascination with… Click to Continue Reading.