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Part I and Part II.
The Department of Justice in Ottawa:
With Peter Hogg's "Constitutional Law of Canada"
in hand, I was ready to continue my career as a Justice lawyer in
Ottawa. Before this job, I had always worked in a small
to medium size law firm. This was my first experience working
in a large bureaucracy, and it changed the way I practised, at
least temporarily. In the Department, certainly in the area
in which I worked, the staff did not work overtime. Instead,
like clockwork, the floor emptied of staff at 5PM. As a
result, I had to change the way I worked. For example, I had
to work after hours to make sure all the drafts were ready for the
staff to type them up at 9AM the next day. This was long
before computers.
