Law school can be quite stressful, for most people anyway. But there are few things about the experience that can make your heart palpitate and your palms sweat like the on-campus interview process. It all starts off with the whole ordeal of applying for and waiting to hear if you’ve even managed to get interviews with any of the firms that will be on campus to interview potential summer students. Once that hurdle has been completed, there’s the actual interviews to wrap your head around, and then the quick-and-dirty interviews with their short window of opportunity to make your mark once you’re in front of a recruiter. Whew!

Canadian Lawyer 4Students goes right to the top of the class to get some tricks, tips, and all-round words of wisdom from the students who worked their way to the prize for best student at their law school for 2006-2007.

Increasing pressure from clients is forcing law firms to look at their diversity policies for both hiring and retention of minority and women lawyers.

Faculties across the country are offering a slew of cutting-edge and innovative courses to prepare young lawyers for the future of law.

Law professors welcome one-on-one contact with students, just don’t bring chocolates.

After three months in Nairobi, I have concluded that the city is characterized by paradoxes. The hub of East Africa’s humanitarian-aid machine, it showcases large white UN 4x4s running rampant through the city streets, some of the best sushi in the world, and what tour companies advertise to be Africa’s largest slum.

You’re sitting at your desk, hair dishevelled, suit jacket flung on the floor, papers and files scattered all over the place, and you’re scratching around in your head for the right words to put an end to the memorandum that a senior lawyer threw on your desk hours ago and expects before morning.