Law In-depth
Debt loads are becoming an enduring burden for Canadian law graduates, and that is distorting the profession’s ability to service the public. Elsa Ascencio was only 12 when she knew she wanted to be a lawyer.
That’s how old she was when her father was hurt on the job, his back "shredded" while working as a labourer in a factory."It was devastating," she recalls. "One of the things my father used to do was carry us on his back. And suddenly, dad couldn’t do that anymore."A refugee from El Salvador, who’d fled death squads with his wife, he […]
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