Why are you studying or practising law? What are your values?

• labour and employment law
• on Bay Street
• in Victoria
• tax law

Morgan Jarvis has had two goals for most of his life: excel in his chosen career and become an Olympic rower. He achieved the first goal by finishing three degrees at Queen’s University, including graduating from law school earlier this year and securing an articling contract at Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP in Ottawa. But through it all, he rowed toward his second goal, becoming a member of the Canadian national rowing team and now trying to qualify for the Olympics.

One of the quirky aspects of Canada’s legal system is its lack of any national standard for law grads or foreign students queuing for admission to bar exam programs in any province or territory. The closest de facto standard was issued by the Law Society of Upper Canada in 1957 and revamped in 1969. However, not all law societies used the dated guidelines.