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Changing careers in law

  • January 11, 2023

In a feature article in CBA/ABC National, OBA Innovator-in-Residence Mante Molepo discusses her professional trajectory and alternative career paths for lawyers.

OBA Names New Innovator in Residence

  • November 08, 2022

Mante Molepo has been named the 2022-23 Ontario Bar Association Innovator in Residence and will lead the association’s new career accelerator for Indigenous and racialized lawyers in emerging areas of law.

Make A Will Month Highlights Need for Properly Drafted Wills

  • November 01, 2022

November is Make a Will Month, and the Ontario Bar Association (OBA) is once again spearheading a campaign to educate the public about the need for a will and how lawyers can help people draft one properly. Throughout the month, volunteers from the OBA will be leading free information sessions for the public in communities across Ontario.

OBA Statement on Province's Use of Notwithstanding Clause

  • November 01, 2022

The government has once again invoked the notwithstanding clause so that their legislation prohibiting a strike and unilaterally imposing contract terms will operate even if it violates the rights protected by sections 2, 7 and 15 of the Charter. These include the rights to free speech, association, and peaceful assembly, the right not to be deprived of life, liberty or security of the person except in accordance with the principles of fundamental justice and equality rights.