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Awardee Committed to Creating Career Opportunities

Story by Elaine Smith

Jerome Poon-Ting, Senior Recruitment, Admissions & Diversity Officer for the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, is passionate about his role in recruiting law students and ensuring that they get a good start to their career journey.

In recognition of his service to the University of Toronto in a variety of roles, University Professor of law and philosophy Arthur Ripstein, Howard Beck, Q.C., Chair, has been awarded the 2024 Vivek Goel Faculty Citizenship Award.

Congratulations to this years Walsh Family Law Negotiation Competition participants!

The Walsh Family Negotiation Competition is a competition for 2nd and 3rd year law students from across Ontario. Working in teams of two and using facts for each partner in a family law dispute, U of T Law students Emma Baliat (2L), Christos Kakaletris (3L), Ashley Jeon (2L), and Alice Min (2L) negotiated with opposing teams in three successive rounds of increasing complexity. 

Lawyer Prasanna Balasundaram, director of Downtown Legal Services, the community legal clinic and clinical legal education program at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law (photo by Nina Haikara)

Story by Elaine Smith