ARTICLE · 15 MARCH 2023

My Journey As A Foreign Trained Lawyer In Canada

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This article is part of a series of educational blog posts created by a team of Watson Goepel women lawyers in light of International Women's Day 2023, to empower, celebrate, and encourage women in Canada.

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Lauren Liebowitz

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This article is part of a series of educational blog posts created by a team of Watson Goepel women lawyers in light of International Women's Day 2023, to empower, celebrate, and encourage women in Canada.

My name is Lauren Liebowitz, and I am a newly Canadian Accredited lawyer from South Africa.

For International Women's Day 2023 I felt it important to share my journey as a foreign trained lawyer in the hope that this information could assist other female (or male) foreign trained lawyers in their journey of re-entry into the legal profession.

During August 2019, my husband and I applied for Permanent Residency ("PR") in Canada with the intention of moving to Vancouver. We had visited Vancouver 5 years prior and knew from the moment the wheels of our airplane touched down on the runway that this was the place we wanted to call home. It was at that point that I started looking into the process of accreditation so that I would be able to practice law when we

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