Program Overview

Osgoode Professional Development's Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law Program

The Osgoode Professional Development's Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law program is introducing a new stream of practice skills courses.

Program Overview

Developed by Audrey Fried, OsgoodePD's director of faculty and curriculum development, in partnership with instructors Shelley Kierstead and Germán Morales Farah, the new courses offer students the opportunity to integrate their substantive knowledge and skills from several courses in a way that simulates the realities of Canadian legal practice.

Course Offerings

The program includes three new courses:

• Canadian Legal Strategy, Research and Writing (CCLW 6609): students will go beyond the basic legal research and writing skills by drawing on material from Professional Responsibility and Constitutional Law courses to develop interview, communication and strategy skills.
  • Students will learn how these skills work together with legal research and writing to serve the needs of clients.
  • Students will deploy their newly gained knowledge in authentic tasks as they are called on to draft practice documents and write memoranda of law, opinion letters and demand letters.
• Canadian Business Transactions (CCLW 6638): students will move from a solid foundation in Canadian law related to corporate and commercial transactions into exercises involving communication, strategy, drafting and negotiation.
  • Students will prepare practice documents, plan due diligence, conduct or review selected regulatory searches and negotiate key terms of a transaction.
• Capstone: Canadian Law in Practice (CCLW 6610): further builds on those newly acquired skills as students work in a virtual firm environment, completing both a litigation and a transactional file and engaging in structured reflection of these new skills and experiences.
  • The course will also focus on building client relationships.

Program Benefits

These new course offerings will help internationally trained lawyers meld practical experience from other jurisdictions with Canadian substantive law and practice techniques.

Eligibility

Applicants with an international law degree are eligible to apply to the OsgoodePD Professional LLM in Canadian Common Law program.

Application Deadline

The application deadline is January 15, 2024.