John Richardson is a pioneer in the exam prep industry. He founded one of the first NCA communities on Facebook and is an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the legal profession.

John joins us to discuss NCA exam prep tutoring.

Kim has honed her advocacy skills in a variety of settings and is a fierce advocate for her clients.

Kim is a pioneer in the legal community and is an advocate for diversity and inclusion in the field of law. She had envisioned becoming a barrister from a young age as she enjoys solving problems and negotiating. In 2007, she attended Western University and graduated in 2011 from the media program. After working in shipping and logistics and marketing, she worked as an assistant to an estate litigator in 2013. Kim enjoyed working in this area of law and pursued her dream of going to law school with the plan to one day open her own law firm. In 2015,

Kim graduated from City University of London and worked as a paralegal at a Bay street firm equivalent in the UK. She returned to Toronto and completed her equivalency exams, barrister and solicitor exams and articled with the same estate litigator. In January 2018, Kim was called to the bar and launched Law For Millennials and NCA Network while working at a boutique estate litigation firm. In January 2019, Kim launched Gale Law.

Deborah Wolfe, P.Eng., is the Executive Director, National Committee on Accreditation and Law Schools Programs with the Federation of Law Societies of Canada.

The NCA assesses the qualifications of individuals with legal education and professional experience obtained outside of Canada, or in a Canadian civil law program, who wish to be admitted to a common law bar in Canada. Ms. Wolfe also leads the process to approve Canadian common law, law school programs.

Ms. Wolfe is the Past Chair of the Association of Accrediting Agencies of Canada, a former President of the Canadian Engineering Memorial Foundation, a charity that encourages girls to become engineers, and a former Chair of the Canadian Network of Agencies for Regulation.

Ms. Wolfe was previously with Engineers Canada where she was responsible for the accreditation of undergraduate engineering programs in Canada, and Engineers Canada’s research and foreign credential evaluation programs. Ms. Wolfe is a civil engineer licensed in the province of Ontario and is a former Military Engineer having served with the Canadian Armed Forces.

Leanne Goldstein is a Partner at MK Disability Lawyers. She has been a practicing lawyer for 20 years. For 16 years she has been tirelessly advocating for individuals whose short term and long term disability benefits have been wrongfully denied by insurance companies.

Leanne Goldstein was admitted to the Law Society of Ontario in 2002. Prior to that, Leanne practiced as an Attorney in a different jurisdiction with a large international law firm. In Ontario, Leanne initially practiced personal injury litigation with one of the top ten personal injury law firms. She then devoted the next 16 years to representing individuals denied disability benefits at two leading long-term disability practices in Ontario.

In her spare time, Leanne advocates for children with special needs and devotes her energy to volunteering for disability-related charitable causes that are close to her heart.

Samantha is a current Articling Student at McCarthy Tétrault with a keen interest in regulatory law and professional regulation.

In 2019, she created and organized the inaugural On-Campus Interviews (OCIs) for ITLs and NCA Candidates at the Ontario Bar Association (OBA). She is a Co-founder and Director of ITLNCA Networks and the Chair of ITLNCA OCIs. She is an advocate for equity in the legal profession.

After graduating from The University of Glasgow School of Law, Samantha worked full-time at McCarthy Tétrault while completing the self-study NCA exams and bar exams. When she is not working, Samantha enjoys art, live music, and biking.

Lena Koke is CEO and Co-Founder of Axess Law and over the past six years has been leading the company through significant periods of growth, while overseeing the company being recognized on Canadian Business’ Startup50, Growth500 and the Globe and Mail’s Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies awards lists multiple times.

Lena is passionate about expanding the avenues through which Canadians can access legal services. She is heavily focused on the company’s operations and technology areas, believing that streamlined processes coupled with new, forward-thinking technologies, will continue to fuel the growth of the company and lead to much-needed legal service offerings for Canadians.

Lena was recently awarded as one of Canada’s top 25 most Influential Lawyers in Canadian Lawyer Magazine and ProfitGuide’s Canada’s Top Female Entrepreneurs. She has an M.B.A from the Rotman School of Management, a Law Degree from the University of Toronto and a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario.

Stephanie is a litigation associate with a broad civil and commercial litigation practice focusing on contractual, shareholder, and real estate disputes, as well as oppression claims.

Prior to joining TGF, Stephanie practiced law at the Supreme Court of India and various tribunals. She represented multi-national clients across a variety of industries such as telecommunications, e-commerce, aviation, and energy.

She also volunteered at the House of Lords (United Kingdom) and with various charities.

Stephanie was called to the Bar of Delhi (India) in 2013 and called to the Bar of Ontario in 2020. She summered and completed her articles at TGF.

Rebecca Lockwood is a licensed barrister and solicitor with the Law Society of Ontario. She graduated from the prestigious Juris Doctor program at Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto. After completing her articles under Barbara Jackman in 2014, she opened her own immigration and refugee law practice in association with Barbara and her renowned immigration and refugee litigation boutique, Jackman & Associates. Rebecca is also the Lead Program Designer of the Toronto School of Management’s NCA Exam Prep Program.

This mini-series of podcasts will go over the various core module syllabi of the NCA Exams. This episode is all about the Canadian Criminal Law and Canadian Constitutional Law syllabi. These podcasts will provide you with insights on how to approach studying for the NCA exams, what to focus on, and how to approach some challenging questions that are sure to come up on the exams.

Steve Joordens is a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto Scarborough, and Director of the Advanced Learning Technologies Lab.

Professor Joordens is an educator and an entrepreneur of educational technologies. He also regularly gives keynote presentations and does media interactions as a way of connecting psychology to world events.

Steve has an activist streak as well with two primary causes; enhancing public education to focus more on the development of transferable skills, and trying to convince humans to treat animals more respectfully in research and definitely in the food industry. For fun, he fronts a rock band and rides a motorcycle, both things he does with his wife Sue.