LSUC Licensing and Accreditation Task Force Consultation Report
(for lawyers called pre-1997)

Please answer as many questions as you wish,
to assist the OBA in preparing a Response to the above Report.


Please Answer Questions 1 – 7 with your agreement or disagreement with the statements:
1. The "Skills And Professional Responsibility Program" portion of the licensing process (Call to the Bar) in Ontario is essential to training a student for the practice of law.






2. The skills and professional responsibility program content is sufficiently covered in law school or other portions of the licensing process.






3. The skills and professional responsibility program content is covered in sufficient depth during the course of the program for it to be of value.






4. The articling program portion of the licensing process (Call to the Bar) in Ontario is essential to training students for the practice of law.





Comments

5. The articling program prior to your Call to the Bar assisted you in the later practice of law.






6. You are satisfied with the quality of your firm’s present articling program.






7. The articling program should be abolished.





Comments

Please Answer Questions 8 – 10 with your comments:
8. How did the articling program prior to your Call to the Bar assist you in the later practice of law?
(E.G. allowed to practise oral advocacy skills on small matters.)
Comments

9. Do you think that some part of the current articling program should be improved?


If Yes, how?

10. Can you recommend an alternative to the articling program?



If so, which of the following alternatives would you prefer? Please circle one.











 

 


 
 
 
 
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